STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is certainly not for the faint-hearted. As if the killer mutants and anomalies littered around The Zone weren't enough of a risk, the several warring factions vying for control of it, each with their own particular ideologies they want to enforce, are perhaps the most dangerous threat of all. Nowhere is this better exemplified than through the mad monolithian noosphere shaman, Faust.