(Also, get ready to hear lots from veteran anime-and-game actor Steve Blum, who lends his gravelly voice to roughly half of the characters.)īeing able to pick your pace and style of gameplay is a cool feature, although it's worth noting that playing through Metro 2033 on Survival mode in Normal difficulty definitely feels more forgiving than the original, so players looking for a serious challenge should immediately kick it up to Hardcore.
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Here, bullets are currency, guns are ugly and homemade, gasmasks spell the difference between life and death, and everyone calls them "gosmosks" in hokey faux-Russian accents. It’s a journey that takes you through creepy tunnels and ruins haunted by shaggy monsters and eerie phantoms, in which tense moments of stealth or exploration might suddenly give way to explosive, crowded firefights. If you've never plumbed the Metro's murky depths (or are itching for an excuse to return), this is a fantastic way to experience them. It's also the setting of two games – Metro 2033 (review) and Metro: Last Light (review) – that smartly weave storytelling, stealth, and first-person gunplay into one long, darkly beautiful narrative, and Metro: Redux brings them together in one enhanced package for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Sure, it's part of a post-apocalyptic future where mutant predators run rampant and the remnants of humankind live in crumbling subway stations masquerading as city-states, but the Metro has a distinct culture, colorful survivors, and haunting secrets that are almost as much fun to discover as they are horrifying. As dank, irradiated hellholes go, the Moscow Metro might be my favorite one to visit.