best rizz game i've ever played fr gyatt

I really enjoyed playing this game, but the ending wasn’t as good as I expected. It kind of felt like playing Far Cry 3 and killing Vaas, but I guess it’s okay. Sometimes, it was a pain because the enemies could almost always see you and seemed to know exactly where you were. So if you messed up, you couldn’t just vanish.

Still, it’s a really great game. Maybe I’ll go for 100% achievements, but not right now.

If you like post-apocalyptic and story-driven shooting games, it’s definitely worth playing, though there are better ones out there.

Overall, I’d give it a 7.5/10.

Metro 2033 is outdated as fück. Artem (the main character) doesn’t talk, yet NPCs act like he does, constantly guessing his responses, which feels unnatural and lazy. Inventory management is terrible, and ammo limits are annoying. Resource management feel like a joke. Upgrading weapons is pointless because you just get a better one in the next level anyway, wasting resources. Given that the entire Metro supposedly has 40,000–50,000 survivors, your character alone could be wiping out over 2% of the population in a single playthrough, which makes the whole post-apocalyptic setting feel completely ridiculous. The story doesn’t matter because all you do is shoot everything in sight. There’s no replayability or choices, and once you finish it, there’s no reason to go back. Fallout 3 is times better in every way.

♥♥♥♥ the library

Just Awesome!

got this game for free and i like survival horror game so i give it a try, i didnt regret it
it had survival horror element where every ammo is count and the atmosphere is really great set in an apocalyptic era, this is the game that got me into slavjank subgenre even tho i didnt think this game is a slavjank

The first game I switched 3 graphics cards back in the day

Important notes before I start the review: This version of the game is no longer available on Steam, it’s not available on GOG or Epic either. I was lucky enough to snatch it up for free before it got delisted, but if you weren’t, then you can still buy the disc version. Here’s a link with available physical copies, many of which are very cheap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/93958529?iid=146125529892 . If you have the Steam version, then you’ll notice that the intro cutscene, although great, isn’t skippable. This cutscene plays before the main menu every time you start up the game, so not being able to skip it eventually gets very annoying. However, there is a way to bypass this: simply press Alt and Tab at the same time, then do it again, now press any key and you can skip the cutscene. That’s what worked for me, anyway. Well, that’s the technical stuff out of the way, let’s begin.

Metro 2033 is an FPS game set in a post-apocalyptic version of Moscow. A third World War ravaged the city to such a degree that the surface is uninhabitable, and all of its denizens have been forced to live in the numerous metro stations underground. These stations are heavily fortified, having to fend off attacks by horrid mutants as well as other people. Society is fragmented more than ever before, leading to the formation of various warring factions such as bandit gangs, Nazis, communists, etc. You play as Artyom, a young man who’s been tasked with bringing a token and warning message to a man named Miller in Polis, the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful station in the whole Metro. While on his journey, Artyom’s life is in constant danger, having to desperately fight his way through the dreary tunnels with weapons that are, in many cases, ramshackle and filthy. Use stealth to move past enemy lines, scavenge for ammo, guns, medicine, etc. to survive, fend off hordes of bloodthirsty mutants and be wary of supernatural entities including even ghosts.

Metro 2033 has a lot that’s worth praising, the guns feel decently satisfying to use, enemies react in a way that makes it feel like they’re actually registering damage, and the sound design, animation, and models are all fantastic. The arsenal you have at your disposal is pretty basic: SMGs, revolvers, assault rifles, shotguns, etc., but that’s perfectly understandable considering the setting. Many of these are made crudely by the metro dwellers, as is the ammunition. In fact, pre-War ammo is so rare, powerful, and valuable that it’s used as currency. You can switch to this ammo for better damage, but only do this in times of emergency, otherwise, use it to buy more supplies or modified versions of weapons. Stealth is also quite good in this game, and it feels satisfying to kill enemies quietly with throwing knives or by stabbing them. The melee combat is passable, feeling neither too weak nor overpowered.

The mutants all look terrifying and sinister, really enforcing the horror aspect of the game which shines throughout. In fact, the visuals in general are superb, especially for the time this game came out in. Everything truly looks and feels ahead of its time for 2010, and it all looks perfectly dismal as you’d expect a post-apocalyptic world set largely underground to be: the ramshackle homes in the stations, the dark and gloomy tunnels lined with filth, the icy ruins of the city above, etc. All of it looks and feels absolutely grim. However, despite all this, you still get a sense of hope and contentment among the people living in this world as you hear cheery music playing on the radios, people talking and laughing with each other, children playing, etc. This shows a very nice contrast to the nature of the world these people are living in, which helped make the game a bit more interesting rather than just constant and relentless doom and gloom.

There are also some AMAZING set pieces, I particularly liked the on-rails sections where you travel through the tunnels of the Metro, fighting for your life against relentless foes as well as the section with the shadow ghosts. The enemy AI is also great, with human enemies using cover and flanking you in combat, and mutant enemies climbing on walls, ceilings, and attacking you from different angles. There’s another particular set piece I love, which involves you sneaking through a war between Nazis and communists, clearly harkening back to WW2 but in an underground post-apocalyptic setting, which I found very interesting and entertaining to witness.

The soundtrack is largely sombre, fitting in with the setting perfectly. There are some tracks that are acoustic guitar solos you could just imagine hearing at a campfire and others that sound far more sinister, using ambience to instil a sense of fear and despair. Hearing Artyom’s fearful narration before starting each level with these tracks in the background makes them even better. There are other tracks that are more energetic and hair-raising, much like the music building up to a scary scene in a horror film, which is especially effective at invoking emotion before or during an intense segment.

The game does have its problems, however. I experienced some very noticeable frame rate drops, especially during the combat sections with swarms of mutants as well as the segment set in the abandoned military base. This was especially odd, since I have a decent high-end PC and this game is pretty old, so it’s definitely an optimisation issue. Even when I lowered my graphical settings, I still experienced this problem. Another downside is that many of the characters look and sound very much the same and are easily forgettable as a result, at least to me, anyway. I also found the Librarian section to be poorly designed and very clunky. It’s a part of the game where you have to traverse through an abandoned library with these dangerous mutants called Librarians, and they won’t attack you so long as you maintain eye contact with them and move slowly. I did exactly this and they still attacked me, so much so that I just gave up and decided to rush through it (which took a fair bit of trial and error). Lastly, I wish the ending was handled better. Your showdown with the mysterious mutant race you’re tasked with destroying mostly involves you running around in a simplistic maze with some very basic platforming while they chase you, which got rather tedious pretty quickly. Their final attempt at reaching out to Artyom feels confusing and is apparently handled much better in the book, too. Still, despite these shortcomings, the game is great overall.

To conclude, Metro 2033 is a thrilling and atmospheric, if a little clunky, game that suffers from some poor optimisation among other things.

Final verdict: 7.75/10 “Even in dark times, we cannot relinquish the things that make us human.”

Nice Game

10/10 Gold