


If you don't like bright green borders and all sorts of spinny things in your user interfaces, this'll be especially bothersome for you. And obviously you have to make a GameTap account and download and install the GameTap client. So what's the catch? It's only available for a week - which, if you started now and put in a couple hours every day, would be enough to beat the game or at least see the good parts.

However, if you don't mind a handful of caveats, you can have your radioactive cake and eat it too, as GameTap is now offering the first STALKER game, Shadow of Chernobyl, for free. Nobody's just going to drop a copy of STALKER in your lap just because you've been patient. If you've been waiting for a legal way to play GSC Game World's STALKER series for free, you're probably crazy. The first game in GSC Game World's post-nuclear FPS-RPG series is now available to install and play for free on online game service GameTap, but the deal isn't completely without a catch.
