There are various excursions to the blasted surface of Moscow, which requires the use of a gas mask. Your flashlight, for example, needs regular recharging by pulling out a battery pack and pumping it up to generate more power. Enemies always see you in the dark, despite the game telling you otherwise, and your attempts to outflank usually end up with the enemy simply spotting you regardless of your position.Įven exploring less dangerous areas challenges your resolve. Sadly, the enemy AI is not quite equipped to handle this.
You can see what 4A Games was going for - you can blow out lights to create darkness, there are multiple paths in any combat zone to allow outflanking, and you have to avoid broken glass or alarm systems to move and kill silently. Likewise, the game’s attempt to create a cat-and-mouse combat situation doesn’t entirely succeed. The sniper rifle, for instance, seems like a waste of time, since a headshot rarely succeeds in killing an enemy, and once the entire opposing force is on alert status, you’ll never get another chance to pick your target without getting chewed by opposing gunfire. Most enemies wear helmets, which seem to require upwards of three headshots. Likewise, headshots against enemies are only sometimes rewarded with an instant kill. It should not require three consecutive, close-range shotgun blasts in order to kill a human being, especially when Artyom himself is incapable of taking even half that much damage. In fact, the enemy nearly always has the advantage over Artyom, and wits are the way to win, not superior firepower. Meanwhile, the player’s supplies are consistently low. Hideous monsters are fast and resilient, while human opponents are heavily armed and often armored. Enemies are dangerous, to the point where absolutely any encounter in the game is capable of killing the player. On the surface, Metro 2033 is a first-person-shooter, but it has also been quite rightly described as a survival horror and it is perhaps one of the most traditional survival horrors to be seen in years.
#3 metro 2033 full
I’d love for the unique and genuinely interesting world of Metro 2033 to be given more flesh, but you only ever get a taste of the story, never a full bite.
The idea of a world where conflicting ideologies have been taken out of context by the survivors of nuclear war is a powerful and intriguing one, but it’s never explored at more than a surface level (which is a criticism I have heard of the book as well). A narrative is there, and it’s quite a decent one, but nothing really feels fleshed out. Strangely, for a game based on a novel, Metro 2033‘s story isn’t all that detailed.
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