Metro 2033

**Cyros** · 02-04-2010, 01:37 AM

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Steam pre-order gets you a free copy of Red Faction: Guerilla.

**Phobia** · 02-04-2010, 10:30 AM

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Originally posted by Cyros

Steam pre-order gets you a free copy of Red Faction: Guerilla.

Dude i can't keep up Cyros!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGGGGGGGGG so many games in Feb. Lucky it is my birthday so some cash is coming my way. I have not played through red faction so I am getting Metro 2033 for sure. The game looks sweet and Red faction I heard good things.

**Cyros** · 02-04-2010, 10:37 AM

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Originally posted by Phobia

Dude i can't keep up Cyros!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGGGGGGGGG so many games in Feb. Lucky it is my birthday so some cash is coming my way. I have not played through red faction so I am getting Metro 2033 for sure. The game looks sweet and Red faction I heard good things.

What happened to....what was is it....only buying six games this year? LOL.

**Phobia** · 02-04-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally posted by Cyros

What happened to....what was is it....only buying six games this year? LOL.

I bought 5 already going into Feb. lol

Bayonetta
Darksiders
Bad Company 2
Alien Vs Predator
Metro2033(preorder with Red Faction)

Then I think my girl is getting me Dantes Inferno for my birthday.

**Cyros** · 02-04-2010, 11:01 AM

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Originally posted by Phobia

I bought 5 already going into Feb. lol

Bayonetta
Darksiders
Bad Company 2
Alien Vs Predator
Metro2033(preorder with Red Faction)

Then I think my girl is getting me Dantes Inferno for my birthday.

Go buy Heavy Rain.

**Phobia** · 02-04-2010, 11:18 AM

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Originally posted by Cyros

Go buy Heavy Rain.

Nice thanks for the reminder

**Flawless** · 02-04-2010, 06:20 PM

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Hands-on

I played, for the record, around two hours of Metro 2033 – during that time, it was unfailingly good-looking, most especially in the civilian hub segments. While there’s no real interaction to be had with any of the dishevelled populace, there’s an impressive amount of incidental detail, stuff that doesn’t strictly need to be there but which makes the world so much more convincing because it is. The pens full of unhealthy-looking pigs, the arguing couples, the bleak, sweaty kitchens, the jerry-rigged machinery for lighting, warmth and transportation… It’s perhaps the benefit of the source material being a novel (out in English in March), something that has already laid out how this grim society functions: in these sections, it feels like a real place. Imagine Rapture if it had avoided anarchy but plunged headlong into poverty -an enclosed, subsistent populace making the best of the little they’ve got.

It is a shame, I can’t help but feel, that 4A have created so much but allowed only the most token interface with it. There are weapons and weapon upgrades to be bought (neatly, the currency is bullets – a scarce commodity in this claustrophobic world) and some lost souls will spit out a bleak bon mot if you hit Use on them, but other than that these areas exist purely to create context. This isn’t a shooter with RPG elements. It’s a shooter. But it’s a shooter with imagination, with a strong sense of place and journey – Bioshock and Half-Life 2 are sturdier touchstones than, say, Modern Warfare 2.

It’s not purely Put The Crosshair On The Man/Monster’s Head – occasional stealth missions involve sticking to the shadows, and avoiding noise-maker traps such as cans on strings and broken glass underfoot. It’s always possible to blast your way through like a traditional meat-grinder FPS hero, but it’s a slick and appealing approach to creeping around. The interface helps – no health meters, ammo counts or magic radars, but instead everything monitored via your character’s watch and notepad/map. Ammo is visible on and around your gun, so you need to keep an eye on that to tell if you’re running low – which you will be, all the damn time. It’s not an especially high body-count game in the grand scheme of digi-killing, but even so you need to be exceedingly careful with the bullets you find. There’s some things you really don’t want to be trying to take down with a knife.

As mentioned earlier, bullets are also money in Metro’s resource-starved settlements, but slightly confusingly there’s a distinction between valuable, military-grade ammo and the less effective homemade stuff. I’d have thought it would have been better to have one general pool, but perhaps that’s proved untenable in QA. Now, you have the choice between, say, loading your shotgun with shells that can take down a giant rat-thing fast, or of having at it with several, low-grade shots and saving the good stuff to trade in for a weapon upgrade – such as a stock or silencer. Sometimes, you won’t have a choice, finding yourself out of everyday ammo and being forced to shoot your precious money into a Neo-Nazi’s eyeball if you want to survive. It’s an interesting mechanic, even if it seemed slightly muddled during my time with the game.

Another precious, curious resource was gas mask filters, necessary to keep your lungs from having a funny turn when traipsing through gas-filled areas and the great and terrible outdoors. Overuse detoriates these filters, lessening the amount of time your good air supply lasts for, so scavenging and trading for them is an important, but also scattily-explained, part of survival. Oh, and the mask’s glass screen can crack too, so remember to take it off when it’s not needed – i.e. whenever something big, hairy and carnivorous launches itself claws-first at your tasty face-flesh.

The effect of the general shortage of resources makes Metro 2033 a little hard to call for now – at times, my situation felt as desperate and urgent as it should in such a damaged world, but at others just a little frustrating. There’s an awful lot of scripting and it’s all checkpoint-based, meaning there can be a fair bit of grueling repetition if you hit a tricky stretch, and even the occasional punishing instant death situation. A monster popping up in exactly the same place every time can mess up the they’re-coming-outta-the-*******-walls vibe, but hopefully the regular pinging between out-and-out action, stealth, hallucinatory spooks and on-vehicle Alamo moments will keep it sufficiently varied.

I was particularly taken with the spectral elements, the things you can’t fight – the ghost train rushing by you that’s just headlights, windows and thunderous noise, the shadowy silhouettes of doomed army’s ghosts, the shadowy echo-memory of a long-limbed beast chasing down a child screaming for its mother… There a Stalker comparison is apt – such moments are reminiscent of the unsettling, displacing psychic attack scenes, where reality and hallucination bled into each other. Given the plot involves Artyom’s journey to best/understand the murderous psychic mutants called the Dark Ones, I’m pretty sure we’re in for many such haunting vignettes.

What stands out the most, though, is how lavish it is – the creepy lighting, the impressively there sound design, even the writing and (English, but Russian-accented) voice acting. I’d expected the worst of those latter, but in what I saw it doesn’t suffer from the all-too-common problem of inexpert translation. That said, I was told there’ll hopefully be an option to play with Russian dialogue and English subtitles. It’s not been confirmed yet, but I really hope it makes it in -it’ll further ramp up the otherworldly menace of the thing, the sense that you’re journeying through the unknown, something that isn’t the standard Western shooter-world. In a lot of ways, this stomp down a deadly trainline is incredibly traditional, but, going on the presentation, it’s going to be an on-rails journey well worth making.

**Cyros** · 02-05-2010, 01:31 PM

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Hmmm, this has me reconsidering BC2 as my March purchase since I think I'll enjoy a game with what seems to be a great atmosphere.

And if I pre-order on Steam I'll get Red Faction: Guerilla. Temping I must say.

**bigfnjoe96** · 02-11-2010, 12:01 PM

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I'm very interested in this game also..

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**Flawless** · 02-25-2010, 03:38 PM

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5 Reasons to Have Metro 2033 on Your Radar

Next month, the bombs start falling and we start running. THQ's horror-shooter Metro 2033 may not have all of the pomp and splash of a Modern Warfare 2 or God of War III, but marketing campaigns are not necessarily the best indicators of quality. Metro 2033 has all the makings of a sleeper hit. I played the game at its Moscow debut late last year and have not seen it in the interim, but I've had Metro 2033 in the back of my head ever since for a number of reasons. Well, five to precise. And here are the reasons I think you, too, should have it on your radar.

Metrospective: 4A Games vs. Digital Foundry

Coming from the technological architects of GSC's S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the new 4A engine powering Metro 2033 from THQ is another proprietary codebase that looks capable of producing pretty astonishing visuals. Thus far, most of THQ's marketing efforts have concentrated on the visually superb PC build, though Eurogamer got hands on with both versions last month. Digital Foundry has had extensive access to a preview Xbox 360 build, and what we've seen has been impressive.

**psymin1** · 02-25-2010, 10:12 PM

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This game has the potential to be a sleeper hit. I am pretty excited for it, but I am relying on it dropping in price after about a month of release (because a lot of new games are, and I am BROKE with all the other games coming out, lol). Hopefully it is worth the money!

**allBthere** · 03-11-2010, 09:44 PM

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Originally posted by psymin1

This game has the potential to be a sleeper hit. I am pretty excited for it, but I am relying on it dropping in price after about a month of release (because a lot of new games are, and I am BROKE with all the other games coming out, lol). Hopefully it is worth the money!

I agree completely. It looks very solid on those walkthroughs. Some of it seems un-game-friendly like the oxygen masks...but it does look really good. It looks much better in those walkthroughs than the preview which makes the whole game seem like a monster haunted house.

**mrprice33** · 03-12-2010, 03:11 PM

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there's a 90% review out there. no text though, sorry.

**Flawless** · 03-12-2010, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by mrprice33

there's a 90% review out there. no text though, sorry.

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