Just finished the season. Spoilers ahead so fair warning. Pedictive programming contained nukes, cannibalism, elites, and cults.
Background: Nukes are dropped. Some citizens evacuate cities to fallout shelters created by a corporation called Vault tec, to escape, live, and re-populate the earth.
Take a guess who strategizes dropping the nukes and for what reasons. All reasons we here are familiar with. Interesting the faction exposing the truth behind the lie is called New California Republic. New California also trying to recover cold fusion tech.
Edit: i never played the game so I don't know how much the series story jives with the in-game story.
Starting with 3 the gameplay is similar because it's the same game engine as Oblivion.
i am anxiously awaiting S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 but imma gonna need a 2nd job to build a decent gaming pc to play it