Metro: Last Light Redux

Game crash repeatedly not worth 2

A tense singleplayer experience. Requires your full attention to navigate this dark and intriguing world. The story is good, but I found myself lacking some context to certain things having not played the first one. Still well worth it.

I would definitely play the first one before this. They do some flashbacks in this one relating to content in the first one, but you really need to experience the world and characters to flow with the plot as it snakes through the Metro tunnels. The stealth in this one was great; kind of get a Deus ex feeling from this. Although, the whole 'punching the guy once in the face knocking him out instantly' is a little cheesy. There is an unexplained morale system that I would get familiar with before starting the game. I learned about it after completing the first one, and it made the story in this one more engrossing, hearing the conversations fully and interacting with the world as much as the developers made available. I really appreciate how I was able to load this game up and get lost in the world. It had been so long since a game took me to this level of involvement that I had forgotten the enjoyment of it.

Game is very immersive, but it's story is written to ensure that every information is told player by some NPC, some of which could be shown by image. I think that game just assumes that you have no idea about Metro2033 game, nor book at all but instead to show you it tells you.

So here we are again in the cata... tunnels and corridore of the Metro and a bit outsiede. The narrative ist still very great and very dominant, meaning many scripted scenes and cuts but everything is a bit better. I am not talking about that LL is basically much easier and more actaion heavy -if that is better if left open to debate. But the narative gives you a longer leash than in 2033. The guns feel more balanced, the level design is less linear and offers additioonal small section to explore besides the main path making the game feel way less linear that it actually is. There are real boss fights now! You just feel how everything is more mature and has more matured from what 2033 was, even if the hilarously antic mutant-drug-monkey animation from the first game is still there and hasn't been touched up one bit. While LL is defintely the better game it just makes little sense to play it without playing 2033 first.