System Requirements: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400/AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 2GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX/ATI Radeon HD 4850/512 MB DirectX 9c compatible video card There may be an option of included dual languages on all discs, allowing you to switch the game from English to Russian and vice versa whilst playing.There will be underground horror locations like in the original SoC.One developer mentioned the possibility of the protagonist (A Ukranian investigator) having 'some kind of powers' that regenerate after you sleep.The Burer and Chimera monsters have been re-added to the game.Apparently, stamina will regenerate much more slowly and other actions will be much more difficult if you are exhausted and/or starving. The requirement of sleep (as well as hunger) has been added to the game with severe gameplay consequences.A list of some of the promised areas: Pripyat, Kopachi Village, Juipter Factory, Railway Station Yanov.
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The entire area of Pripyat will be available and playable/explorable in a full 1:1 realistic scale. Completely new areas yet unseen (or at least in the depth in CoP) from SoC and CS.I assume they'll be doing something DirectX10, soft shadowing, self-shadowing, HDR, and the-like. GSC has promised thorough playtesting of the game this time, and so we hopefully won't have to wait through six patches just to keep the game from crashing to desktop every 30 minutes. This is to allow players to go back and to do any side-quests they might've missed on the way. The developers have stated that there may not actually be an 'ending' to the game, and gameplay may continue on forever far past the natural 'ending' of the game. There is supposedly more freedom involved in the gameplay in terms of the story-mode.
The game is set to be released in the Autumn of 2009 and carries some pretty hefty system requirements, which should tell you about some of the massive graphical updates / engine work that GSC has been doing with their game.
This announcement may be a little late, but ever since GSC has first announced a third title in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series, the Call of Pripyat, more details have been released.