Metro 2033 review Pc#

With Metro 2033, almost your entire gameplay experience is presented without a permanent HUD, giving you a more immersive experience. The less intrusive a HUD in an FPS, the better in my opinion.

Metro 2033 review Pc#

The PC version obviously presents us with the richest graphical options, as we checked out both this and Xbox 360. Clever inclusions such as frost forming on the edges of your gas mask, and debris particles reflecting light add to the game's rich detail. The dank, claustrophobic darkness of the Metro tunnels is broken up by the harsh whiteness in your brief visits to the snow-layered world above. As you would expect from a post-apocalyptic world the colour palette is quite dull (this is far from being a negative thing however), and fits the game brilliantly resulting in a fully realised recreation of Glukhovsky's dystopian vision (see Steve's interview with Huw Beynon for a little more insight into Glukhovsky's overall vision). Graphically, Metro 2033 delivers, and delivers well. Based in post-apocalyptic Moscow, 20 years after a nuclear devastation thousands of people have taken residence in Moscow's Metro system (purportedly a bomb shelter) to protect themselves from the poisonous air above, nuclear winter and the mutants who maintain control over the outside world. Metro 2033 is a single-player FPS based on the dystopian novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky, and is just one of the many iterations of the Moscow 2033 universe, spearheaded by Glukhovsky. It's an arduous task to reach the next settlement they could be friendly just as easily as they could be Nazis. With my ammunition low and only a miniscule amount of military grade left, I'm going to have to make the few rounds I have remaining last. I strain to see in the nuclear winter either friend or foe, though preferably not the latter. I examine the desolate and scattered remnants of Moscow, now lovingly named Dead City. As I replace my air filter - a necessity above ground - I squint through the frost crystallising on my gas mask to survey the area ahead.