Metro 2033

[hybrid87 231]

7.0 / 10.0

Difficulty: Hard

Time Spent: 10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line: "Been there, done that"

The story is a bit interesting - a nuclear attack on Moscow. 20 years later the player (Artyom) travels through the metro system of Moscow to rescue his hometown (in this case home metro station) and probably all Moscow if not the whole planet.

But who dropped the nuke on Moscow? Why? WW3? Even Wikipedia describes it as "a devastating nuclear war of unknown cause obliterated modern civilization". But enough with the pre-game story, let's get to the real game.

The gameplay was something between hard and easy - but not medium. Because some places are easy as pie - just shoot everything that moves. Some places were hard es hell - for example sneak around enemies.

The soundtrack - just a few tunes on the main menu and at the end just before credits start.

The graphics - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. style.

Overall looks and feels like a sequel to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series not a new game. If you have played at least one of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games you quickly understand what to do and which buttons to push (if you use default layout).

The main things I liked about this game where some new features which made the game realistic:

- Batteries - you need to charge them if you want to use your flashlight of night vision.

- Bullets are used as money - it makes more sense in a post-apocalyptic world then bottle caps or some remains of real money.

- You can sneak by all enemies even sleeping monsters.

- Some monsters just can't be killed and you must run from them

- No map - There is no map, no gps. Just a small notepad with a compass (which shows you the way and not the north, but I'd prefered it to be a real compass).

I gave the game a 7.0 rating, just because of the pre-game scenario and the detailed metro cars and stations (well ruins of the stations) which somehow turned the game in a movie or a book - you just want to see what happens next and not how many monsters you kill.

By the way - I recommend to get the game in Russian language. It would turn the game more realistic as it is. In English it was sometimes funny, how everyone talks English with a hard Russian accent and most of swearwords were in Russian. I guess it was meant to be a censor, but to my mind it didn't work - for many people which will buy the game (Eastern Europe and Russia) will understand both languages.

[Автоибус 191]

Зверёк как всегда.Игра не нрава нада минус поставить автору темы.

В эту игру можно поиграть.Немного смущает ленейность уровней,хотя она не так заметна.

[artemyi 98]

я не играл. не охото. да и видюха потянет только на минимальных настройках, жалко мне её.

[Макс 22]

А я кстати играл Проходил 9 раз, потом как-то не до нее стало Но пройду еще не раз, всем советую Особенно классно проходить игру в режиме стелса, то есть проходить всегда как можно тише и не превлекать внимание охраны и т.д.