Polygon.com / 25.11.24

STALKER 2 is best with Ukrainian voice acting (and English subtitles)

After my colleague Charlie Hall reviewed STALKER 2 for Polygon and wrote up a bunch of beginners tips, he gave me a bonus tip that Id like to pass on here to all of you: Turn on the Ukrainian language voice acting with English subtitles. Yes, youll have to do some reading and therefore pay more attention while playing the game, but STALKER 2 is difficult, so youre paying plenty of attention anyway. The change-up is absolutely worth it. The English language voice actors sound just fine, of course, and if you didnt ever change over to the Ukrainian voice actors, you could just enjoy the whole game with no idea what youre missing out on. (My use of the word enjoy is leaving aside the games relatively unstable state at the time of this writing; Ive been playing on Xbox Series S via Game Pass, a version that does have some issues, but Ive had decent luck with it thus far.) There are a lot of good reasons to switch the language over. One reason is plain old realism. STALKER 2 was designed by...
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