Metro 2033 Redux

STALKER-Esque narrative driven linear FPS. Good story, good graphics, plays really nicely, very smooth and fluid. However... I'm not a fan of rail shooter elements and escort missions (No Spoilers) Other players have said that the gas mask filter mechanic was an issue. I didn't feel it that way and I didn't run out of them. I ran out of ammo a lot though and couldn't seem to gather enough ammo to upgrade my weapons, just little minor tweaks here and there. I'll try not to spoil it too much, but the Archive level with the Librarians was a deal breaker for me. Completely and utterly tedious, which wasn't helped by the lack of manual saving. Tried the pacifist route, didn't work. There was always one that just wanted to kick the shit out of me despite me using the correct tactics. Couldn't kill any as no matter how much ammo, slugs, arrows, explosives and fire I threw at them they just laughed and kicked the shit out of me anyway. Watching other players on YouTube killing these things easily didn't help, wasn't working for me. Sadly, this level ruined the game for me and I quit. I would recommend playing if you can put up with some tedious levels with only checkpoint saving, then you'll have a blast.

I greatly enjoy games like entire Metro series, that give you immersive story, great visuals with very high attention to details, functional and well thought out controls with dynamic feel to it in game, sound and everything else on technical side is generally great. I don't like fighting monsters that much but many and long stealth parts of the game fighting human enemies generally make up for it. It doesn't ever feel repetitive, everything has an original feel to it. Many times it feels a bit scripted, like, you don't always have full control over what's going on, but I suppose it's just for movie-like effect that couldn't be achieved other way. Even for just a single player game, it's a great choice and, for example, I think that, after a while, it has become my favourite game series overall. For me, the first part of the series is also the grimmest one, the most difficult one, the one that has the mood that feels the most like being in "post" "nuclear" Russia and, even though the other two are more enriched than this one, it will always be the original one in these few categories.

classic 10/10

Played several hundreds of hours, still keep returning.

Good game so far. Not 5 stars because of some nearly impossible lethat situations to avoid like running out of filters when you've searched vigilantly, and one bug that was documented in a forum years ago with the spawning of a watchman out of nothing that results in immediated death. Players trying to avoid this glitch have to restart and vary unrelated trivial things into this path to change the event and avoid this. But overrall, it 's an amazing immersive experience with visual details so intricate, I kept expecting to have a frame stutter problem.