Title: Metro: Last Light Redux
Developer(s): 4A Games
Publisher(s): Deep Silver
Genre(s): Action, Shooter, First-Person, Sci-Fi, Arcade
Singleplayer: Yes
Multiplayer: No

https://youtu.be/B9KX010NKuM

*Note* I did not play Metro 2033, i went directly to Last Light as of writing this review.

+ Every level is so extremely detailed and visually stunning from beginning to end. This is one of the best looking first person shooters I've seen.
+ The Gameplay is a ton of fun. It's a great variety of stealth and shooting segments, and each level is unique to the last.
+ Very atmospheric and emmersive sounds, weather effects, lighting, and so fourth that really bring the game to life
+ Horror elements as you go through Spider infested catacombs, and dens full of oversized mutated creatures
+ Survival elements as you will be constantly low on ammo searching every body and every dead end for more as you desperately try to conserve as much as possible. (Bullets are also currency, so saving ammo is critical)
+ Story driven with a lot of surprises which are very entertaining
+ Extremely intelligent AI. This is one of the few games where I really felt like the AI was intelligent. The stealth segments especially felt amazing because it really felt like the enemies were alive, and you could sense what they could and could not see or hear. It was really something incredible. All the nemies in the game also don't run straight at you, they actually flank, use cover, and react to your movements
+ Nice variety of weapons which you can upgrade. (Loved seeing a Quad barrel Shotgun)
+ Bonus Content / DLC which actually provide A LOT of extra content and are a ton of fun! I believe there's 9 fully fleshed out extra levels, some that include missions where you play as other characters, while others are unique challenge stages with a lot of depth.
+ A handful of boss encounters which will have you on the edge of your seat
+ Plenty of Content, expect to spend ~ 8 hours on the campaign, and an addional 2-3 hours on the bous levels.


- The FOV is locked (at 60 I believe) which made me feel a bit sick at times
- The story is a bit all over the place. It reminded me a bit of Call of Duty, where one mission ends, and then suddenly you are in a completely different area.
- Having not played Metro 2033, it was a bit hard to grasp all the factions or groups in the game. There's The Order, the Red Line (Soviets), The Fourth Reich (Nazi's), The Dark Ones, and a number of other smaller groups.

The differences between Metro 2033 to Metro 2033 Redux are significant while the differences between Metro: Last Light and Metro: Last Light Redux are unfortunately miniscule and in some cases not noticeable. I personally purchased this game for some easy achievements but that's not to say I didn't enjoy what I experienced. However, I feel there's a bit to praise and criticize 4A Games on with this product.


● Enhanced lighting. This time around Metro: Last Light has been brightened and it now features lens flares! Whether it's for the better, that's up to you to decide!

● Many textures in Metro: Last Light Redux have been slightly enhanced. However, this enhancement will not be noticeable unless you're running the graphical settings on Very High.

● Enemies are now more responsive to light and sound. If you fall from a high place or turn off a light, expect an enemy to investigate.

● The addition of safes. Hidden throughout the game are safes with corresponding keys. These safes contain a variety of items including ammunition, military grade ammunition, grenades, throwing knives, etc.

Chapter enhancements (For users who have played through the original Metro: Last Light)

In the chapter Reich, you now have the ability to jump when you're in the chase scene with Pavel.

While fighting the Rhino in the chapter Undercity, nosalises will now attack you. It makes fighting the Rhino a little more challenging, but not nothing you shouldn't be able to handle.



● The ability to approach a combat situation in multiple ways. Sneaking, knock out kills, use of silencers, and using the darkness to sneak up on enemies. It may seem silly and common knowledge but many games in the current gaming industry fail to deliver anything more than just a watered down run and gun experience.

● The new A.I. combat subroutines are irritating yet innovative. If you're approaching a combat situation guns blazing be prepard for some jumpy, trigger happy enemies.

● The achievement progress saving system. In the original Metro: Last Light, progress was saved in a consecutive playthough. This time around you can reload checkpoints to accumulate kills, unlock safes, filter air time, burn cobwebs and unscrew light bulbs.

● No unsynced voice and facial animations. Although a little wonky, the facial animations and voice are never unsynced from start to finish. That's certainly saying something considering the majority of the games created today have the issue with unsynced facial animations.

● No in-game store. The majority of developers feel the need to put a direct link to their game's downloadable content within the game itself. This angers some consumers while ruining the immersion they're trying to create.



● Non-existant NPC eye tracking. I never realized how important eye tracking was before I played the Metro series. Almost all of the NPCs in Metro: Last Light Redux feel as if they're staring off into space, unaware of their surroundings or the player.

● Copy and paste menus and user interface. The menu and user interface of Metro: Last Light Redux is the exact menu and user interface that Metro: Last Light used back in 2013.

● The watering down of achievements within the game. While they may have added 5 new achievements, they have completely gutted 28 from the game, including ones that were from once downloadable content.

New achievements 4A Games has added to Metro: Last Light Redux:

1. Veteran - Choose three primary weapons that use different ammo.
2. Pyromaniac - Burn 50 Cobwebs.
3. Engineer - Use 10 Lever Switches.
4. Master Thief - Open 10 locked safe boxes.
5. Cheers! - Drink at every occasion.

Achievements that were in Metro: Last Light but were not present in Last Light Redux:

01. Weapon Smith - Install all possible Customizations for a Weapon.
02. First Draft - Write 10 of Artyom's hidden Diary pages.
03. Tesla - Break 50 Lights.
04. A Present - Take the Custom Pistol from the Locked Box.
05. Businessman - Make 100 Purchases.
06. Diver - Fall in the Swamp 10 times.
07. Soup - Kill 5 Shrimp with Grenades.
08. Equipped - Find all Equipment Stashes in the swamps.
09. Walking Bank - Collect 1000 Military Rounds.
10. Inferno - Set 2 Enemies on fire at once.
11. Forgotten - Find the Hidden Ammo in the abandoned part of the station on the QUARANTINE level.
12. Musician - Use all Musical Instruments in the game.
13. Nobody's Home - Ignore the Phone Call in the Anomaly.
14. Bloodlust - Kill all the Reds on the THE CHASE level.
15. Van Helsing - Kill a Demon with the Helsing.
16. True Spartan - Hold the Platform without dying.
17. Gunslinger - Kill at least one Enemy with each Weapon available in the game.
18. Shadow Ranger - Complete the game without killing any Humans unless forced to.
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20. Sniper - Kill 10 enemies with headshots using your sniper rifle.
21. Artifact - Find 30 artifacts.
22. ♥♥♥♥ Homini Lupus Est - Kill 100 enemies with heavy weapons.
23. Willpower - Сomplete at least one HUGE mission.
24. Arachnophobia - Kill 20 spiders with your flame thrower.
25. Specialist - Complete the SHOOTING RANGE and ARENA.
26. Safe Cracker - Open 8 safe boxes on the PAVEL level.
27. Hunting - Kill 20 Nosalises on the KHAN level.
28. Eagle Eye - Kill more Watchmen than Artyom does.


Unfortunately, this product can only be launched while connected to a network. These type of business decisions only affect the users who have legally purchased this product. If people have interest in pirating this product, they're going to find a way around this restriction.

The original Metro: Last Light has been removed for purchase from the Steam Store. If you some how manage to find a Metro: Last Light Steam license from a 3rd party source, best of luck finding licenses for the downloadable content. My condolences go out to the users who care about achievements and have purchased Metro: Last Light before it was removed but did not have time to purchase all of the downloadable content. These users who have only purchased the base game will never be able to obtain 100% achievement completion for this product.

I didn't enjoy this game as much as the original Metro Last Light, but I would certainly recommend it if the price is right.

Metro: Last Light Redux is an incredible game, just like its sibling this game will keep you playing.

Not much has changed since the original except that theres more variety in the weapons and a few new mutated creatures. Although I do believe they wasted the mechanic of the rail car, I think it could've been used for more.

Though, also like 2033 there is questionable AI in some parts. Although there isn't much else to say.

Just like 2033, the story in this game is fantastic, if not better though at first it may seem a bit fuzzy, but definately gets better as you go!
It has new memorible characters that you will both love, and hate.

The only complaint I have is that, the one section that has nudity, the way they execute it feels a bit awkward.

The game is very cinematic with it's story telling, making a enjoyable atmospheric and immersive experience within the game itself.

The music and sound design in this game is phenominal. The guns, again feel real, and powerful. While the mutants horrific and scary!

The graphics in this game are definately better then 2033, and the lighting even moreso. The game is just beautiful to look at, especially the new surface world. Which you spend more time on thankfully to take the beauty in.

While Last Light doesn't change much, gameplay wise from 2033, thats okay because the formula used works so well with the game, Last Light gets an , a great game just like it's sibling!

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☐ Kids
☐ Everyone
☑ Casual players
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☐ Really bad
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☐ Refund it if you can
☐ Don't do it

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☐ 90' PC
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☑ Fast
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☐ NASA computer

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☐ You just need 2 arms
☐ Ez
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Hard (first few hours)
☐ Dark Souls


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☐ Bugs destroying the game
☐ Lot of bugs
☑ Few Bugs
☐ You can use them for speedrun
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Multiplayer: No
Singleplayer: Yes

Metro Last Light complete edition will be free from 18 to 25 of May!!

DO NOT visit the "Venice" station if your parents are in the room.

Having played Metro: 2033 Redux I was suitably impressed by its story, graphics and gameplay, but was left wanting more. Metro: Last Light Redux offers more and I jumped straight in with an aprehensive smile on my face and a spare pair of pants by my side. So, what did I think?

I freaking LOVE this game! A brilliant continuation of the story and once again the graphics are next to none. New enemies add to the scare factor and the lore of the games' setting. Everything that made Metro: 2033 Redux so good is back but with even more. The length of the gameplay for me was longer than the first game, which was welcome.

If you enjoyed Metro: 2033 Redux (I know I did) then you should definately purchase Metro: Last Light Redux. For me it ticked ALL the boxes and still managed to scare the S**T out of me! For this one reason I praise this game so highly. Never since the likes of AvP 2000 has a game managed to quicken my pulse and caused me to pause a game to take a breath. Developers take note, this is how you make a true FPS with horror elements.

9/10

Metro: Last Light is pretty cool, I guess.

You play as Artyom, a man who lives in the Moscow Metro because some jerks with big red buttons decided to push the big red buttons and kill us all.

During World War 3 in 2013, a war I apparently missed, it all got too hot and everyone decided to nuke everyone. Major cities across the world were burned away in nuclear hellfire and most of the human race was wiped out. Fortunately, 200,000 residents of Moscow managed to avoid being turned into the skeletons form Terminator 2 by hiding underground in the Moscow Metro station.
It is now 2034, and the Metro has taken on a society of it's own. Less than 50,000 people of the original 200,000 are alive in these Metro tunnels, but they have formed their own brand of society and go about their day to day lives working, exploring, farming, and of course, waging war.

Because what screams post-apocalyptic Metro tunnels more than Nazis fighting Communists?

Metro: Last Light is a first person shooter where you, playing as Artyom, must travel through the Moscow Metro in search for the last Dark One, a survivor of a race of strange creatures that were wiped out in the last game. But after being captured, Artyom is cut off from his faction, the Rangers of the Order, and has to travel through a hostile Metro while fighting Nazis, bandits, mutants, your mother, and several other enemies that want you dead.

Metro: Fast Food puts a big emphasis on resource management, ammo and supplies CAN be scarce within the metro tunnels if you're a big stinky man who doesn't know how to manage his things properly. Artyom is a very sneaky fellow, and usually has the advantage of not being seen when he goes into a new area. As long as you stay out of sight and avoid light sources, the enemy shouldn't be able to see you, allowing you to plan out your attacks and pick off stragglers and loners as you see fit. Or you can just avoid them all together and stock everything like the hermit you are.

The game gives you a lot of options for handling enemies and dangerous situations. Not only are all of the weapons weighty and crunchy to fire, but you also have a knife that lets you dispatch enemies quietly as well as throwing knives for when you want to do your best ninja impression. Not only that but you can carry three firearms at any given time and customize them to meet most situations. A silencer for when you want to be sneaky, IR scopes so you can see in the dark better, and even a suppressor for your shotgun because 'No Country For old Men' was a rad movie.

You also have two types of ammunition, or at least two types of ammo for weapons that can fire Soviet 5.45x39mm cartridges. See, I did my research.
These "golden bullets" have become a currency in the Metro tunnel. The way it's explained is that the bullets aren't backed by any kind of currency standard like the NCR money was in Fallout, but instead they're prized for their stopping power and penetration. So you have a choice to make, hold on to these bullets and spend them as currency, or use them in your gun if for any reason you feel as though the shoddy and poorly made dirty rounds that are manufactured in the metro just wont cut it.

The game is linear, but honestly, what do you expect when you're walking through a literal metro tunnel. The game does open up and allow you a bit of freedom when you enter stations with enemy encounters. But for the most part, you're on the rails, no pun intended. It's not a bad way for the game, considering how narrative heavy it actually is, and I never really felt all that oppressed when going through it, there's still enough room to scavenge and hunt for supplies in between sneaking and fire fights, which is more than you can say for most linear games.

But should you play Metro: cockfight?

The game's linearity may ward you off, and the mutant fights feel like nothing more than events that happen only to drain your resources. The boss fights are fairly boring, but they only happen twice or so throughout the entire game.

I would say Metro works as a nice gateway for people into the Eastern European Post Apocalyptic genre. It shares many similarities with another series of the same genre known as STALKER, who both borrow heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 1971 classic novel: Roadside Picnic. It's a very different take on the genre than you might be use to. There's this overlying feeling of...I don't know, hope I guess. There are crazies and freaks in the Metro, but it's not like raiders and bandits completely outnumber and overwhelm the decent folk like the modern Fallout games, and it's not like Mad Max where everyone is living off borrowed time and outside of things like ghosts and mutants, it feels more grounded in reality.

The people aren't living off borrowed time, they picked up where they left off and struggle to make with what they can. Don't get me wrong, living in the Metro tunnels would still be a terrible and dreadful experience, but if you held on, if you struggled and fought with everyone else, you can make a life for yourself in those dark, old tunnels. And even though you might never see it, maybe, just maybe, your children, or your children's children can stand on the surface world without radiation suits and gas masks, and can build a new world from the ruins of the old one. Maybe there is a light at the end of that tunnel...


♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, that was beautiful, did I really write that?

Metro: Last Light gets 8 rat kebabs out of 10.

I don't know, I think the Metro shrimps would actually taste good.

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EDIT: Actually, nevermind, the more I think about this game the more I like it.
Metro: Last Light gets 9 rat kebabs out of 10.

Metro Last Light is a linear story driven horror survival FPS with multiple endings, It has great graphics and some very tense gameplay, Customize your weapons and save the Metro from itself.

The Story follows the adventures of Metro 2033, It is also based on a novel with the same name, People are still in the metro because of the invisible threat above ground. You play as the same protagonist from 2033, Artyom, Not much has changed, except for the shift of focus of enemies. I feel the mutants are less considered threats here, Surely you still need to kill them if they attack you, But in the last game they felt like the enemy, And here I feel other humans are the real enemy. The game like 2033 has multiple endings, So maybe that was just the impression the game gave me by the choices I made.

In the last game I did not feel any of the characters stood out or where particularly memorable but I do feel they improved on the NPC characters this time, there was more bonding and faces started to get familiar. Saying I care about their wellbeing is a bit over an overstatement, But it surely improved a lot and I was curious towards them to say the least. The rest of the game felt really similar to the last installment, But that is not a bad thing.

There is no multiplayer at all, It is all single player, Mainly the story mode, There are some extra missions which are pretty cool, Chapter select is still there But you can not go back trough normal progress, It is a very linear game, You are rewarded for exploring but any door could close shut behind you. Your choices do matter and in my experience it is rather hard getting the good ending.

Like the previous game you can choose between Survival or Spartan for your run, Spartan is more head on with easier enemies and more ammo while Survival is a more sneaky way of playing where it is better to evade enemies. Then there is Ranger mode which makes the game a lot more realistic in terms of difficulity, 2 bullets will be the end, But enemies go down a lot easier too, If you really want a Survival experience I would recommend going with that. I played the game on Survival, But I went trough it as a Spartan, and I had tons of ammo to spare mostly.

The main story is a shooter with a very tense Horror like atmosphere, There are some parts you have to follow people around or stuff like that, but it did not feel like a chore at any point. There are also a lot of different "New Missions" these are like extra missions you can play and some are pretty cool, There are sniper missions but also wave missions, all kinds of cool stuff that you will enjoy if you like FPS games.

Like Metro 2033 The game looks beautiful, surely it is all Dark and Grimey, But it creates an incredibly tense atmosphere, The sounds really enhance this feeling. The pre rendered movies look horrible, They have very bad graphics and play in 30fps. It is like it was pre rendered using a microwave. Next to that everything looks great, especially considering the age of the game. I also love the design for some of the weapons, Like the Shotgun Revolver, Who thinks of insane weapons like that.

The game runs really well, absolutely no crashes, glitches or bad behavior like that. Like Metro 2033 It does have some issues with Vsync, It works, but not always, Other times you can't turn it off, It is a bit strange, But it is not a huge issue, It also has bad mapping with the default kernel driver using an Xbox One controller, It works fine with Xpadneo, so if you play with a controller, use xpadneo.

I am a little dissapointed with the endgame, Like Metro 2033, The game is extremely linear, It is very easy to miss things. There is a chapter select, But it will overwrite your last savegame and you can not go back and clean up the achievements. The replayability is okay, Since it has multiple endings and multiple ways to play. There are also a lot of achievements that are easily missable, If you want to perfect the game it will certainly take you a while.

Overall, The game is very similar to Metro 2033, At least I see very few differences between the 2 Redux versions, So this review might sound very similar to the review of 2033. Just like that game it surely is a great game worth picking up, And a must have if you like anything related to FPS or Horror. It is a short but thrilling ride a very linear ride but how you ride it is completely up to you, Kill or Sneak. Good or Bad.

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