What are your thoughts on Metro 2033?

[Sparrow]

I felt it was totally average. The atmosphere didn't grip me and I felt everything it did had been done better elsewhere, from the diary-like intros to the actual gameplay.

Also, it was pretty darn short.

 

[thejackyl]

I loved it despite one glaring flaw with the gun play.

I would be sneaking around and attack an enemy from behind I think I was using some silenced rifle. Not the Bastard Gun, and I don't think it was the AK-47 (unless the one you get at the beginning of the first stealth area is silenced)...

Anyways: I would shoot at someone and it would hid them in the head, but it didn't kill them. It would just alert them. You know why? because my bullets/throwing knives where bouncing off the STRAP OF HIS MASK

And without a quick-save function this got annoying really quick. That and I ran out of ammo towards the middle of the library... *shudder*

 

[BreakfastMan]

Pretty good game. It was solid in nearly every area. Well, except for the stealth bits, but I ended up shooting my way through those parts anyway. Also, the environments started to blend together by the end. Anyway, a solid 4-star game. Not the best, but still pretty darn good.

 

[Robert Ewing]

I loved it. Very immersive for a modern day FPS. Top notch.

 

[MetaKnight19]

The atmosphere was undeniably excellent, dark and dreary with the perfect score and sound effects for almost any given situation. The one thing that nearly killed it for me was the guns and how they worked. Before anyone starts raging at me, I'll admit that the designs of the guns and the 'ammunition currency' thing are kind of cool, but sometimes it just feels like you'd be better off throwing pebbles at the mutant charging towards you. Maybe its supposed to come across that way, but I'm probably one of the people who probably 'don't get it'

 

[Jakub324]

It's difficult to cram my feelings towards it into a few sentences, so I'll just say it was the best game I've ever played.

 

[Jakub324]

The book was freaking amazing, I don't have a good PC for the game and I don't want to play a game like that on the 360.

It was fucking awesome on the 360, curse you!

 

[Syzygy23]

Metro 2033 is a cool guy, he fights mutants and isn't afraid of anything.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

I read the book and really enjoyed it, but that's not saying much. The book is very... it's socialogical interpretation of how people would cope if nuking happened. It's very interesting. Then a threat is added. It's a really good book and I can't recommend it enough. It presented in such a way that you only know what the main character would know which is not much other than half baked rumours and it's so atmospheric you can almost imagine you're right there. When I was reading it, I was based in London and used to weigh up the different stations for good camps in my head. If you're interested, I decided Angel was the best bet. Very deep underground, only one line and one exit. Easy to maintain relations.

I did get the game, at release in fact, but I got it at a time in my life when I was far too busy to complete it, played it for a bit and by the time I had more free time, some other stuff had come out and I forgot about it.

I remember the first time you go outside though. A bunch of mobs, but I used all my ammo to buy things so I couldn't fight them off. I could only just keep ahead of them so I ended up just bolting in random directions, hoping I was going the right way. Got my heart going like I was playing an early Silent Hill game.

 

[Snoozer]

Yes, Metro 2033. That other Ukrainian developed First-person/horror shooter set in a post-apocalyptic setting. It was brought up in the recent Extra Creditz episode and I thought it's a good time to know what my fellow escapists think about the game.

Having put 41 hours into it(according to the highly unreliable steam timer), I can safely say it's one of my favorite shooters since Half-Life 2. Funny, since the game shares so much similarities to HL2 without it being a direct rip-off. It has a wonderfully haunting atmosphere and while the setting is a "generic post-apocalyptic ravaged by nuclear war", 4A did an amazing job creating such a meticulously detailed world. The weapons feel right, at least on Ranger where human enemies aren't bullet sponges, especially the air-pumped rifles.

I do have some problems with it such as inconsistent enemy AI and the damn ameobas in the final level but all in all, it's an excellent game that definitely deserved more attention than it got. regardless of its flaws.

I actually bought it because it was on Extra Credits too. I couldn't play it for very long but it seems really good! I have to agree that it really feels like half life.
I actually wanted to buy it after release, but there were problems with the ps3 version and I actually forgot about it (shame on me!)
So I bought it for 9,99 on Steam today, doubt that I'll regret it.

 

[SlayerN]

A very great game. Seriously, I must have played it through at least 4 times. (tried out Russian voices on #3) can't wait for last-light and really hope they optimize it a bit better and fix the occasional glitch.

Funnily enough I own(ed) the game 5 times: bought it, got 2 in bundles , 1 for homefront pre-order, and one for 5$ during a sale for a friend(never ended up sending it).

 

[LookingGlass]

It's not perfect but the atmosphere is amazing and I'll be doing playthrough #2 soon.

It was also good enough to get me to buy the book, which I'll read around the same time as I play it again.

 

[grimgor42]

I would try it, but it seems hard to find, even if I wanted to buy it.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I read the book?

It was alright. Surprisingly the game isn't completely different from the book. It's nowhere near the same, but it's not totally different.

Whoever the creepy eye guy that is in it (I think it was like Kong or something), he's only in about one chapter.

The game on the other hand? Seemed like it was really dull. And that's bound to happen with stealth games, but the stealth wasn't really all there.

 

[cthulhlu]

it was a very good game with good gameplay and a good plot, about a 4 star out of five rating for me personaly, but there is one thing that i absolutely LOVED about it.
of all the games ive played this nails the feeling of post-apocalyptic more then any other, the fallout games to me feel more post disaster, a big one but not a apocalypse, peeps be all running about and fixing things that sort of thing.
in metro, the metros are the only thing left of humanity, there are no vaults, no city's no small shacks with crazy people in them, Nothing is left other then a few dirty, squalid refugees living like rats to survive, above ground is frozen and silent, with only the heavily mutated animals and strange anomalies breaking the cold, dead air....
God i want to play that again!

 

[DementedSheep]

It was alright, the shooting was muddy and very hectic tho I suppose it was meant to be. AI was stupid. Stealth was decent tho IMO underdeveloped. I know allot of people had trouble with it but I never really did. There were only a few instances where I didn't know what I actually did wrong. Tho it always seemed kind of weird that you can shoot something in the face several times and not kill them but a single throwing knife in their chest and their down but most games have something like that. The game screwed me over with saves(since you can?t save manually) when they glitched or it saved in an impossible to get out of situation or I missed equipment because I got near an ordinary looking set of stairs before I had cleared the area properly and got teleported to the next level. I don?t really want to be able to save manually, the fact that its check points and you can?t save every two seconds adds to the challenge but I wish there were two auto saves spots or something so I could go back to the previous one rather than having to start the entire level again every time there was a problem with the saves. Perhaps I was just unlucky but I hit this problem quite a bit and it sucked allot of the fun out of the game. I hit an almost game breaking bug but lucky managed to find a solution for it online. I hated the level with the kid who made the shooting even worse and the level with the amoebas because I couldn?t see a fucking thing and Millar kept walking ahead.

However the atmosphere was pretty awesome. There were some great moments and I loved the ghost and library levels. The voice acting was generally good tho Artyom sounds strangely depressed. I like that you actually have to watch you?re ammo and that information is mostly given to you thru the game with things like cracks and fog on you?re gas mask and not your traditional hud. the story was alright tho I don?t think I fully understand what happed, maybe I missed shit or maybe it was suppose to leave you with questions. I get that the dark ones were

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trying to communicate

but what are they? Mutated humans? Another species? The whole "they never change" thing makes me think they might have been around before the bombs but I don't know. I haven't read the books

If they improve the shooting ad stealth in the next game I will probably buy it.

 

[Wolfram23]

Metro 2033 is one of my favority FPS games and also it was a very good book (although I hated the ending ><) Anyway having just finished the book fairly recently I'm thinking of going back and finishing it again.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

It had a case of "Silent Hill 2 Syndrome" as a lot of my buds say. The story and atmosphere were reality shattering, the best I had seen since... well Silent Hill. (at least in the realm of horror) The gameplay however, had some major flaws. Extremely spotty hit detection coupled with AI that act either retarded or batshit crazy were the biggest of them all.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

I played it, thought it was boring. Decent story though, but it was short and there's nothing to it. Over-rated/over-hyped game number 1,893,749,487.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

I absolutely loved both the book and the game, they're both some of my favorites.