Interesting concept this game brings. An after post apocalypse life story about Artyom, a russian man trying to save his underground post. You want to reach another post to find a man that could help you with your problem, defending you post from the Dark Ones. Let's see what we have here: hard condition environments, like you have to wear gas masks that get broken during combat, and you have to take in account that they run out filter, different types of weapons and ammo, but I don't know why they didn't let me buy or get to handle the ak47 or other professional automatic weapon. All i got is homemade improvised junk that didn't go to well with dark ones, except the pistols. Most time you are accompanied by someone or others. You have some critical surviving situations like holding the ground against waves of hordes of creatures. There is a war between Natzi and communists in the undergrounds in which you pas through. A secret underground base in which you have to find D6 to solve your problem. Lots of flashbacks and blurry visions, plus scary voices and sounds to put some pressure on the desperate situation. Along the mission, you hear what people are saying in posts, some old Russian music for the atmosphere, other strange sounds when you are alone and so on - they did a good job trying to scare the shit out of you and keep you finger stuck on the trigger. There are two endings with this one: if you kill that mind manipulator alien, then you get to see the Dark One's base destroyed by missiles, the history repeats herself, answering violence with violence. If yo shoot him in the legs sparing him, then you get to hear him that they want peace ad you see the light and shoot the laser pointing thing off the rooftop saving the Dark Ones and realizing that there is hope for coexistence. I say, why waist a missile and just put it to use destroying those evil man-eating things. I like the part when Artyom didn't talk much during the game, but he wrote down in his journal and narrated it during loading time. I see some influences here. It reminded me of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a little bit of MOHA but I think they wanted the Russian version of Half Life 2, and Artyom in the role of Dr. Freeman, because he doesn't talk either. On with the scores.
Graphics - 9 (Nvidia 3D Vision - very nice indeed, and scary)
Gameplay - 8
Feeling - 8
Story - 7
Size - 1 dvd-dl - 8gb
TOTAL 8
Status: buy it only if you tried it. I don't know for you but this one it was a "play it once" kind of game. I think the horror collection will do fine without this one. Of course they will probably make another Metro game since the competition is very tough on the shooter market, but I don't expect a better story than this one.
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