Metro 2033 Redux

I have to continually google to get past certain areas of the game. I don't need a game to hold my hand and never expected this one to do so, but when you give me areas that clearly act and look like a cut scene (multiple times), I don't expect to have to sprint towards a door to "help" open it when the scene ends and I'm already there at the door, and then suffocate to death. Oh the irony with my username. It's such a story driven game I had no idea I wasn't seeing a cut scene and that I needed to move my character at all, especially since I'm holding nothing and there's no HUD. It's literally a cut scene. Also I love the "Press M for Compass" and you press M and it just lit up a lighter. I love the "Hold R to Pump Weapon" only you hold R and your guy just grabs the pump handle and does nothing. Google google google, over and over, breaking immersion and ruining what would otherwise be a great game. I have had to google so much to the point of sheer frustration and this is coming from someone who absolutely loved Last Light and had zero problems whatsoever with it. I guess I should be happy the game even works at all.

Second fight and you got dozens of enemies rushing you and you got no ammo. They 2 hit you, too. Yeah, right. Refund.

I was hoping for a unique FPS with a fully fleshed out plot and characters, and exciting gameplay. What I got instead was a FPS that constantly took me by the hand. Honestly, it feels like you are on rails the whole time, and simply being led from one set piece to another. Sure the world "looks" interesting, but you don't really get a chance to explore it much. And rather than create an immersive world, the supporting cast just talk "at" a silent protagonist as if they were talking to the player, but it seems horribly unnatural in context. I suppose the actual FPS gameplay is functional, but that is an experience you can get just about anywhere these days. I'll pass...

Crash after crash after crash!

This is the perfect game for 86-year-old grandmothers from Canada named Christine McMillan, who really should pay for what they play here instead of taking advantage of the generous "DRM-free" nature of this product and downloading an illegal copy of the game (according to some people are totally not copyright trolls, they swear!). For everyone else it's kind of "meh". The story is at least unapologetically bleak (and was that way before "Dark Souls" made it cool). The graphics are a pretty mix of brown and gray. The gunplay is solid mechanically but nothing spectacular. On the whole it beats out most modern military shooters, but loses out to the resurgent scifi shooters (which, if it's a genre, this game belongs in) in the form of the last 2 Wolfenstein games and Doom.