Metro Redux

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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 986 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 77 out of 986
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  1. Hevox
    May 16, 2023
    7
    Both games are solid, I have a preference for the first. They have a great atmosphere, the world building seems believable, but suffer from a dated gameplay.
  2. R3PL1CANT
    Sep 9, 2020
    7
    At times, the game design decisions in this game were terribly annoying. You constantly don't know where to go in a hallway shooter! But still, this game gives pleasant emotions and a pleasant aftertaste.
    P.S: I am not happy with the shooting in this game. The shooting is rather mediocre, the weight of the weapon, recoil and ballistics are not felt.
  3. HenriqueV
    Nov 15, 2015
    6
    Metro Redux is a actually a package of Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Last Light Redux.

    Both games have good graphics. The light and gamma effects are really great. Art direction is also good and unlike Bethesda's Fallout series, here you really get the atmosphere of a fallen world. I liked of many of the game mechanics, specially the necessity of changing mask filters in regions with    Metro Redux is a actually a package of Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Last Light Redux.

    Both games have good graphics. The light and gamma effects are really great. Art direction is also good and unlike Bethesda's Fallout series, here you really get the atmosphere of a fallen world.

    I liked of many of the game mechanics, specially the necessity of changing mask filters in regions with high levels of radiation. Metro 2033 has many great stealth moments. For the most part, the shooting gameplay is also pretty fun, but I had issues with some annoying on trail sections of Metro 2033.

    There are very few custscenes here, but you still can learn what is going on during dialogue sections. Metro 2033 story has his great moments, mixing war, supernatural and survivor horror elements.

    Characters facial animations are not exactly great, and the biggest problem in both games is the silent character. He never speaks a word, while people aroud him are giving him orders and saying what he is supposed to do. Its also weird that, our of nowhere, someone will appear to rescue the main character "Hey, Artyom, over here". I never understood how in the middle of the wasteland, or in a enemy base, someone who didn't have a clue about what Artyom was doing, seems to be there waiting to help and even know his name.

    Metro 2033 benefits from getting the improved Last Light engine, and its easily the best of this package. If you play Last Light after beating 2033, you realize many copy and paste situations and recycled ideas. Last Light story is also pretty bad and unsatisfying, and the game suffer from The Hobbit syndrome. 2033 was based on a best seller, and the story benefits from that, just like The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, where people making those movies had so many stuff available in the books to create the movies plots, while in The Hobbit trilogy it was the opposite, there was no enough written stuff, so the screenwriters had to use their own skills and the result was far from great, just like Last Light that wasn't based on any book available. As a result, we have one of the most nonsensical and messy plots ever seen a in a video game.

    Both games are still decent, but just like almost every remastered game around (GTA V and Last Of Us as one of the few expections), you get feeling you are playing a last generation game.    … Expand
  4. ashpeat
    Sep 2, 2014
    6
    Im not sure why people are giving this game such high ratings! If your thinking about buying it i would say don't. This is why:
    The graphics are poor for ps4 standard.
    The environments feel very basic and clunky to move around. The weapons don't feel or sound good when firing them, and they shots don't seem to connect with an enemy properly, the enemy just sort of recoils a bit. You    Im not sure why people are giving this game such high ratings! If your thinking about buying it i would say don't. This is why:
    The graphics are poor for ps4 standard.
    The environments feel very basic and clunky to move around.
    The weapons don't feel or sound good when firing them, and they shots don't seem to connect with an enemy properly, the enemy just sort of recoils a bit.
    You get attacked by the same pack of about 6 monster things all the time.

    The plus points is it does have a decent apocalypse feel to it, quite desolate like fallout 3 but no where near the quality fallout provided.

    I'd say their is a reason its only £16 on psn because its not worth a lot.    … Expand
  5. Sky-Line___
    Aug 20, 2015
    6
    I liked Metro 2033. Acceptable lenght, good story, and his own atmosphere. I'm not a fan of the handling, too slow for me, but it didn't stop me, I enjoyed it.
    Metro LL is another thing, I didn't finished it, it looked repetitive and it has some serious bugs.
  6. Bakoluk
    Aug 31, 2021
    6
    Graphics 8/10
    Playability 7/10
    Entertainment 6/10
    Story 6/10
    Overall 6/10
  7. Zeratex
    Feb 11, 2019
    6
    Honestly a bit overrated game.

    The things it does right are the immersion and the dark atmosphere in the tunnel. Shooting mechanics are clunky. Voice acting is good Story is overrated, its badly explained with a lot of deus ex issues and some fantasy BS. Monster design is dull and bland. Still this game offers some of the best immersion in any shooter, but that alone doesnt make    Honestly a bit overrated game.

    The things it does right are the immersion and the dark atmosphere in the tunnel.
    Shooting mechanics are clunky.
    Voice acting is good
    Story is overrated, its badly explained with a lot of deus ex issues and some fantasy BS.
    Monster design is dull and bland.

    Still this game offers some of the best immersion in any shooter, but that alone doesnt make it 7+ game.
    Stalker is better.

    6.5/10    … Expand
  8. RealMuthaF
    Aug 5, 2018
    5
    First off, I've no idea why these games are getting praised so much. So, I'm gonna go ahead and rate a few aspects of both titles, trying to keep it brief. There is no need to rate each one separately, because both Redux versions look, feel and play absolutely the same - they've got exactly the same graphics, same poor story, same weapons and game mechanics, and even the same soundtrack,First off, I've no idea why these games are getting praised so much. So, I'm gonna go ahead and rate a few aspects of both titles, trying to keep it brief. There is no need to rate each one separately, because both Redux versions look, feel and play absolutely the same - they've got exactly the same graphics, same poor story, same weapons and game mechanics, and even the same soundtrack, which is most pathetic. As a result, Last Light Redux feels like a big boring DLC to the already tedious 2033. I'm aware that it was actually the first game that was changed a lot to resemble the second, but this is what you feel when playing both for the first time, which I did.

    Graphics-wise, Metro is alright: everything is grey and dull, but that's what the post-apocalyptic setting dictates. On the positive note, there are some pretty atmospheric backdrops on the surface levels. Character models are nothing special, but aren't too bad for PS3 games, either. From the visual perspective my two main gripes are uninspiring lame creature design (not the model complexity, just how ridiculous and unmenacing all those big rats look and sound) and how wooden the animations look. The latter is probably a consequence of a low budget, but still.

    Gameplay is fairly generic - it's a first-person shooter, and there are (perhaps, too) many of them. Sure, you can up the difficulty and play the game in a more survival horror style with few bullets, but seeing how annoying all monster enemies are, that'd lead to frustration rather than challenge. Still, gameplay is the sphere where I have fewest problems with Metro.

    It's the story that's absolutely atrocious here. Both games are very exposition-heavy with plenty of hub levels and dialogue, but the thing is, the story here is just unbearable at times. First off, the whole premise of "there are these monsters who seem evil, but turn out to be friendly" is already a cliche you can see from a mile away. Second, these games tell us that after a nuclear extinction event the survivors of the Moscow Metro decided to literally form a new Soviet Union and a Nazi Germany. Yeah, Russian people decided to dress up like the Reich soldiers and even throw in an occasional "guten morgen" and other German words. Sigh. Finally, there is an unnecessary and very dumb mysticism added into the plot - while the base setting is mostly realistic, on some levels you find souls of the dead and other mentalist crap.

    My personal "favorite" was a hobo character called Khan, starting with how he was introduced into the story - you were going with some no-name sidekick through the level, then he died in a cutscene, and in that very moment the hobo jumped out of a ceiling hatch and just told you to follow. Your protagonist, being a mute moron, obliged. Then Khan proceeded to tell you mind-melting garbage like "metaphysical fields where heaven and hell are located were burned with nuclear fire". Yeah. In the second game, Khan came back to lead me to some "destiny river", which turned out to be a dirty sewer that gave the protagonist a bad trip and actually inexplicably teleported him somewhere. Needless to say, as a result of this nonsense I was rushing through the levels to just finally make it stop.

    So, while I appreciate that 4A games, being a small Ukrainian studio, managed to muster something half-decent, I still believe these cheap knock-off shooters to be hugely overrated.    … Expand
  9. Dog4life
    Sep 21, 2014
    5
    2 awesome fps in one package, what could go wrong ?

    This remaster for ps4 is a terrible port, of 2 fantastic games. Now i tell you why : -- Graphic improvement is poorly done, and not even comparable to high settings on Pc. The character models look really terrible , especially the faces. Also the weapons details look edgy and low polygon count. The only positive are the great    2 awesome fps in one package, what could go wrong ?

    This remaster for ps4 is a terrible port, of 2 fantastic games.
    Now i tell you why :

    -- Graphic improvement is poorly done, and not even comparable to high settings on Pc.
    The character models look really terrible , especially the faces.
    Also the weapons details look edgy and low polygon count.
    The only positive are the great light effects, high resolution , monster models

    -- Controls feel to damn slow and clunky, even with high sensitivity setting.

    -- LOTS of bugs , beware !!!! CE errors opening doors and certain points. Night vision not working cerain levels...Suddendly my character cant use any weapon or interact.

    Do yourself a favor , and buy it for pc for a few bucks.

    I can recommend the PS4 version only if you can get it very cheap or rental.    … Expand
  10. unluckydice
    Sep 2, 2014
    5
    Two good games, new graphical optimized engine upgrade, good price next gen worth the buy for that alone. If your a fan of fps/survival horror like Fallout 3, Wolfenstein or Doom then this is the game for you. Few negatives both games have the survival horror element at times though do head into the territory of generic fps from time to time especially (metro2033) although they did improveTwo good games, new graphical optimized engine upgrade, good price next gen worth the buy for that alone. If your a fan of fps/survival horror like Fallout 3, Wolfenstein or Doom then this is the game for you. Few negatives both games have the survival horror element at times though do head into the territory of generic fps from time to time especially (metro2033) although they did improve on this in the sequel.… Expand
  11. DragonBorn-
    May 24, 2016
    5
    Metro Redux is pretty average in all aspects. Uninspiring graphics, poor weapon selection and modification, the underground environment is very basic, due to it being nearly pitch black 90% of the time. Above ground environment graphics are better but not amazing.

    Gameplay is heavy and slow. I had to increase sensitivity to maximum level but it still didn't feel quick enough. Mowing    Metro Redux is pretty average in all aspects. Uninspiring graphics, poor weapon selection and modification, the underground environment is very basic, due to it being nearly pitch black 90% of the time. Above ground environment graphics are better but not amazing.

    Gameplay is heavy and slow. I had to increase sensitivity to maximum level but it still didn't feel quick enough. Mowing down hoards of monsters over and over gets repetitive real quick. The gas masks and respirators are a realistic inclusion due to the poor air quality but can get annoying when the filters run out and there isn't any time to find a replacement i.e. at checkpoints and saves, after you die the game loads back to where you were with 3 seconds of air left.

    The only saving grace is the story-line. Well thought out and entirely plausible (except for the monsters). The one thing Metro Redux does do is make you want to read the book. There is talk of Hollywood turning the game into a movie which would be awesome.

    Overall its not for me but if your a fan of FPS give it a go. 5/10    … Expand
  12. HonestAndrew12
    Sep 21, 2014
    5
    this is not a high rating game. it is complete...just......its on a level that you can't explain AND its a bad level. the graphics are bad ps4 wise...the world feels chunky and linear and the weapons aren't that good. wait till this is on sale....save yourself from buying it for $60.00....buy it for $10 in a wal-mart bin
  13. Darko84
    Jan 20, 2015
    5
    Metro Redux is in my opinion an overrated survival-horror/action game.
    The game play is not bad and average for first view shooter games, however the horror element was not properly developed and never got me into it. In addition to the poor graphics and environment design.
    If you are a shooter lover and like easy survival horror games, you may like this.
  14. RedDragon1240
    May 1, 2023
    5
    This might be an ok game when it first lauched but today is just mediocre. Bad gameplay, uninteresting characters. It does have an interesting atmosphere but nothing more.
  15. renatoelyone
    Mar 31, 2023
    5
    Jogo mediano pra baixo, historia fraca, personagem sem carisma, gameplay mediano. O melhor desse jogos são os graficos. jogo muito repetitivo ao extremo sem variedade de combate Collaps.
  16. hughanderson
    Oct 1, 2019
    4
    Thank you, Next.............................................................
  17. strangebrew123
    Dec 12, 2020
    4
    This game has passed its prime a long time ago, its dull and I found that I couldn't engage with it at all. The gameplay is very limited, as are the graphics. I was excited to play this as I loved the book, which was so engaging, but sadly I was very disappointed. I found the narration very poor, and the advancement of storyline boring.
  18. Mirzaiyhossein
    Jan 24, 2023
    4
    در دنیایی سراسر هیجان پر از امید و هدف فقط بلزی کنید لذت ببرید
  19. Zenastar
    Aug 18, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Hugely impressed with this game as it wasn't something I personally would have tried but my daughter bought a ps5 and downloaded and basically said "play it" I liked the originality of this and the world building was awesome as I've not played many games where the background people continue their lives and chats in such a detailed way. I found this made the game way more fun to hear random conversations.
    A couple of weird quirks was the children who sounded like old adults. Kind of freaky and the map......oh god the map was soon annoying. To not be able to zoom in to see clearly where the compass was aimed at times or a general direction to say how many metres away the objective was, yes I know, I've played too many Assassins Creed games but for some reason all i seemed to do was get turned around in the wrong direction. All in all I'm in awe and miss the whole series now I'm finished. I wish they'd done more of these as now what will I play!?!    … Expand
  20. flakee
    Mar 3, 2018
    3
    I created an account just to comment on this silly game.

    I've been playing these games on and off for a few months now. Never played either one for long because I quickly lost interest. After getting irritated by the game play at one point, I stopped playing the first one after about 1/4 of it. Started playing the second one. It was slightly better. Less of the annoying,    I created an account just to comment on this silly game.

    I've been playing these games on and off for a few months now. Never played either one for long because I quickly lost interest. After getting irritated by the game play at one point, I stopped playing the first one after about 1/4 of it. Started playing the second one. It was slightly better. Less of the annoying, repetitive, monster fights, but it too got to the point where I stopped playing after, yet again, getting irritated by it, for the n-th time, about half way through,. That was the straw. I deleted the games of my HDD. I'm so much happier now. These games might have had acceptable mechanics/story/acting when they were first released long ago, but this re-make, even with new visuals, gets boring, and frustrating rather quickly. Games are supposed to be fun, this game isn't. I have absolutely no friggen idea why this game has such high score. I honestly don't buy these high-score reviews. Fake news! Fake news! LOL    … Expand
  21. alexslork
    Nov 3, 2019
    3
    К сожалению очень неиграбельна в наше время. Жаль что я ее пропустил в 2000-х.
  22. lqstuart
    May 9, 2021
    3
    These games consist pretty much entirely of walking down a straight hallway with bad graphics, guns that sound like toys, bullet-sponge enemies that don't react to getting hit, and a story that was probably pretty cool in the books but isn't even remotely fleshed out in the game. I'd say save your money if it wasn't being handed out for free on every platform all the time, but at leastThese games consist pretty much entirely of walking down a straight hallway with bad graphics, guns that sound like toys, bullet-sponge enemies that don't react to getting hit, and a story that was probably pretty cool in the books but isn't even remotely fleshed out in the game. I'd say save your money if it wasn't being handed out for free on every platform all the time, but at least save your time.… Expand
  23. William4002
    Feb 8, 2022
    3
    So...Russia made their Half Life attempt...Buying games that everyone says that it's masterpiece doesn't mean you're gonna like it! At least I payed cheap, but omg, the gun play in this is SO bad...I expected a shooting game with a great story, gameplay and graphics and left so disappointed, the story of the 2 games is ok, the first game "2033" lacks good and charismathic characters, youSo...Russia made their Half Life attempt...Buying games that everyone says that it's masterpiece doesn't mean you're gonna like it! At least I payed cheap, but omg, the gun play in this is SO bad...I expected a shooting game with a great story, gameplay and graphics and left so disappointed, the story of the 2 games is ok, the first game "2033" lacks good and charismathic characters, you jump from one partner from another and you don't even feel anything, they're flat as hell for the sake of the plot, the second game "last light" it's much better with this, I liked the antagonist, but it wasn't nearly enought to call this masterpiece, because the story in both of them are just ok and the fact that the main character is speakless ( he talks only in the charging menus, but is not enough for me to care about him )...And the gameplay in the 2 games is just a disgrace, everything is bullet sponge, everything feels awful, trowing granades and knifes feels like trowing paper, the guns are boring to use, almost like you're using toys, the melee is dumb...just no fun at all...if you're short on money, buy Far cry 4 instead, because that at least feels like a video game, not a 10 hour movie with **** gameplay and a mediocre story...the graphics and some story parts ( and there is no many of them lol ) are the only good in this, don't waste your time!… Expand
  24. 51dux
    Jul 13, 2016
    2
    Pretty **** not gory, narration and story were kinda good but the game play is very sloppy especially the gunfights and there are a few game breaking glitches forcing you to restart whole levels and there is sometimes no patches available even more than a year after the release. Worst game for bugs along with assassins creed, i can understand glitches in a big open world game like falloutPretty **** not gory, narration and story were kinda good but the game play is very sloppy especially the gunfights and there are a few game breaking glitches forcing you to restart whole levels and there is sometimes no patches available even more than a year after the release. Worst game for bugs along with assassins creed, i can understand glitches in a big open world game like fallout 4 but sorry not in this type of productions. So bad i bought it for 40 bucks and sold it for 10 a few days after.… Expand
  25. SwankyPants
    Jul 20, 2020
    2
    Metro: Last Light (Redux) is the sequel to Metro: 2033 (Redux), It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above. I decided to pick up this game a few years ago whenMetro: Last Light (Redux) is the sequel to Metro: 2033 (Redux), It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above. I decided to pick up this game a few years ago when it was on sale Alongside Metro: Last Light (Redux) but I never really got around to playing them, This weekend I dedicated my time to play through all 3 titles in the series in order, 2033, Last Light and Exodus, here are my thoughts and opinions about Metro: Last Light.

    When I started the game during the first few hours I experienced a lot of crashes, But that may just be me but I'm just warning you before you buy the game that it might have frequent crashes.

    This game is just awful, worse than the original, i dont know what they were thinking, this is a 20 dollar game that should of been free DLC for the original but they are so money hungry at deep silver they made a reskin of the original changed the name, threw in another bad and uninspired story along with some of the worst level design and character progression i have seen in my time of playing games, somehow made the graphics and details WORSE and along with that missing the target on the sound and music and even settings are worse in this game than the orignal, a completely uninspired dumbsterfire of the game by a money hungry company, they completely tried to make this game something it isnt, this game has some of the worst gunplay (WORSE THAN THE LAST GAME SOMEHOW) and some of the worst controls i have ever played with, this isnt an FPS, this is **** the graphics are **** the lighting engine is **** this game is terrible i complete waste of my money, my time and energy, the level designs are so bad it will either make you fall asleep or puke (same with the story actually) this is one of the worst games i have everplayed, i strongly do not reccomend this game, if you really want a metro game buy 2033 its better then this **** and if you really want a good game, Get stalker, save your braincells.

    I really don't know what else to say besides this game is horrible, not worth it at all.

    Conclusion.

    Story - 1/10 (Terrible uninspired story, the only thing interesting is your character but even then he's boring and has no personality)
    Controls - 2/10 (Terrible controls somehow worse than 2033, Playing on mouse and keyboard feels tight and like a controller)
    Gun-play - 3/10 (FEELS LIKE IM USING ARROW KEYS TO MOVE MY HEAD, TERRIBLE GUNPLAY AND GUNS IN GENERAL)
    Weapons - 1/10 (NOTHING INTERESTING AT ALL TERRIBLE)
    Enemies - 3/10 (TERRIBLE WHAT THE ****)
    Graphics - 4/10 (Terrible again SOMEHOW WORSE than 2033!)
    Details - 3/10 (Almost none but you can't even tell with how bad the graphics are again, this game is devolving from the original 2033)
    Sound - 4/10 (Somehow they made the sound worse than the last, everything sounds so fake and loud or too quiet)
    Music - 5/10 (Only thing that carries this game but even then it's worse than the last game)
    Characters - 1/10 (Uninspired Developing of characters and they are all just boring like I don't care about any of them)
    Achievements - 4/10 (Nothing great)
    Areas/Levels - 1/10 (Looks trash, everything is the same, either boring or terrible)
    Enjoyment - 2/10 (Boring and Uninspired)
    Environment - 2/10 (EVERYTHING LOOKS THE DAMN SAME ITS SO DARK)
    Game Settings - 1/10 (Barely any sliders for anything)

    Overall Rating - 2.4/10 - STRONGLY NOT RECOMMENDED

    Thank you all for reading my review on Metro: Last Light (Redux) and I hoped I helped you guys make your decision, I bought this game hoping it would be better than Metro 2033 but I was wrong, VERY VERY WRONG THIS GAME IS WORSE SOMEHOW, I was extremely disappointed with it after playing through it and I really regret wasting my time with it when I could have played something better, so hopefully, I saved you guys the time and money... That's all for now, Make sure to my curator below for more honest reviews! have a great day!    … Expand
  26. LamanRGNS
    May 11, 2022
    0
    What's with the endless swarm of monsters u idiots? And what's that stupid white flash in pitch dark blinding my eyes? Idiot devs. U think u are successfully scaring players? No u retards, u just annoying them. Noobs. Take 0.
  27. carlaris81
    Aug 29, 2023
    0
    Good atmosphere. Horrendous scripted game-play. One of the worst AI I ever seen in a video game. Stealth is unbalanced and broken. Enemy animations are horrible. Artificial difficult.
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#24 Best PS4 Game of 2014
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#28 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2014
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#15 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2014

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. The Digital Fix
    Oct 1, 2014
    90
    Released at a budget price, there’s really no excuse for not giving Metro: Redux a whirl.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Sep 29, 2014
    90
    Unique, dripping in detail, and well worth rediscovering. [Oct 2014, p.83]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Sep 19, 2014
    85
    A solid collection well worth it for newcomers and veterans alike. [November 2014, p70]
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