The Howdy Glossary

The X-Ray Engine is a powerful tool for making video games. It was made by GSC Game World and was first used in the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The engine got better with each new game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, making amazing graphics and different systems for artificial intelligence, weather, lighting, and physics. The X-Ray Engine helped make the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games popular because it let players explore big areas filled with danger and mystery while having lots of stuff happening at once without slowing down their computers too much. Other companies were impressed by what the engine could do and even used some of its cool ideas in their own game-making tools!