A lot of you lot probably havent played this. You should. Bought it cheap on Steam over xmas and just completed it. Not perfect but a really well put together FPS. Certainly not your standard clone of COD/Whatever.
Once you get used to the shooting the animations really come to light, the feel, the weight given to the weapons.
Story is a bit meh but the flow of the gameplay really is special. There are some great cutscenes and set pieces.
Anyway, I can barely type anything sensical this morning.
Metro was a genuine surprise. Buy it.
8 Morning Erections out of 10.
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They need to fix the following in the forthcoming sequel: the pacing; levels seemed to be over before they'd begun with some truly woeful 'narration' between the all-too-frequent load screens. The ankle-biting muties that were rather irritating; the somewhat claustrophobic level-design. (although that's going to be difficult in a game basically set in tunnels).
The were some things to admire; the human AI, npc characterisation, pneumatic ball-bearing sniper gun...but I never had the will to finish the thing.
I was tempted by this, preowned, for £6 in ASDA yesterday. I'm not sure if I can cope with anymore post apocalyptic bleakness though. I'm enjoying being out in the fresh air of Skyrim.
I was also tempted but then wised up.
The gas mask mechanics were one of my favourite parts of the game. Really draws you into the atmosphere with the glass fogging and having to check your watch.
Not a bad little game, I also got it dirt cheap, it's worth a go.
The one thing that annoyed me though was the melee style enemies that would charge you then occupy the same space/geometry as your character and still hit you.
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I always describe this to people as a flawed master piece. In places it's a bit buggy, and some sections are pretty bad, but the over all experience is fantastic. A brilliant universe, with intelligent game mechanics, and a genuinely interesting story.
Worth at least one play though at the prices you can get it at these days. Roll on Last Light.
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... I'd go along with all of this. I think the thing is, when recommending Metro 2033, is to point out that its more survival horror than an out-and-out run & gun FPS. As said in another posting, there's the whole gasmask shennanigans (both the filters and the mask integrity itself), that isn't exactly clearly explained, but gives a nice time pressure to the title, along with an equally barely-hinted at morality index. I also liked the ammo-as-currency factor, pneumatic weaponry, grenades that are as lethal to the chucker as they are to the chuckee, an OK stealth mechanic, and the fact that even though its linear, there are areas with multiple paths and the fact that there's loads of useful items squirreled away Bioshock-stylee for the explorative. And you can even play it in the original Russian!
The Achievements are nicely done too, encouraging new modes of play through certain areas, and that Ranger DLC added some interesting new weapons and the hardcore Ranger mode for extra replayability. Its also got a weird offkilter scifi quality to it, not unlike the film from which I got my profile shot from, Tarkovsky's "Stalker", in that when civilisation goes for a burton its not replaced with mutants, 50s advertising, and a Dean Martin ring-a-ding-ding soundtrack, but rather it all goes a bit supernatural as the Old Ways make a comeback in the societal vacuum. The populated stations you can have a mooch through are superbly realised and I found myself stopping to listen to all manner of background conversations between NPCs - dunno if any of you that played this remember the 5 minute-long story that one station's radio operator tells a coupla soliders about the radiation-proof tank and its crew and what happened to them, triffic stuff.
Here's hoping that Last Light gets a little more open-worldy-ness on boardski - the Metro setting is perfect for a bit of this free roaming. I can recommend the original novel that the game is based on which possesses even more of the outre-ness than the game does.
Only thing i'm mildly annoyed about over Last Light was that the canon ending it's using is the one where you arn't such a nice bloke at the end of the first game. Oh well, I guess that'l keep it more coherent at least.
Are you talking about the actual Metro novel? I got put off that by how much advertising there was for it in the game itself.
Hah hah hah quite right, Mr 'Eugene-Nikka' Bollockoff! Twas utterly shameless wasn't it, that advertising, books and posters and everything?! Capitalism, socialist red in tooth and claw. But its a decent read.
The book was quite a good read. My only question (having not completed the game myself) did it have the same ridiculous 'twist' ending regarding the monsters?
That ruined the book for me.
I thought the game was alright, I just couldn't bring myself to finish it (the rental came during the incredibly busy November).