The game has a very good ambience to it, and it does convey the feeling of anxiety that a post-apocalyptic world would give. Weapons are also interesting, and the story is somehow compelling. It does seem off that you begin with the negative choice option from Metro 2033, which renders all other choices in the first game useless, at least for those compelled to do "good".
On top of that,The game has a very good ambience to it, and it does convey the feeling of anxiety that a post-apocalyptic world would give. Weapons are also interesting, and the story is somehow compelling. It does seem off that you begin with the negative choice option from Metro 2033, which renders all other choices in the first game useless, at least for those compelled to do "good".
On top of that, there are so many issues that ultimately the game battles fall into a sequence of repetitive running/gunning sequences, hampered by horrific gameplay, clumsy controls and an idiotic GUI.
Many times I was stuck running away from enemies while trying to press the Y button along with the control pad to choose a different grenade. I died very often due to character stopping running to change directions, or even in strafing. One of the least counter-intuitive games I ever played. Reloading is slow, and very often you get mobbed due to that. Weapon change is equally frustrating, sometimes re-reloading just on weapon change. Grenades would sometime kill me but not monsters, even though they would be thrown 4 meters aways from me, on top of said monster.
The game had at least 5 crashes that made me restart the level, which is annoying and completely unacceptable. Felt rough and underdeveloped.
In the end, the games feels as if it was a great idea very poorly executed.
Graphics - 5/10 - good, but nothing amazing, scenario can feel empty and meaningless - large areas with very few exploration to be done, since there are only one or two stashes to find each level. Path choices are limited, ultimately leading to the same one path, always.
Sound - 6.5/10 - impressive narration, voices (particularly the Russian accent in American dub), but the other sound effects are unimpressive. Gunshots, running, water, seems all sounds are just one of those pre-made sounds anyone can download from a ringtone app.
Story - 5/10 - Game picks up where last one left, though for aforementioned reasons, it seems to nullify the effort of playing nice on the first entry. On top of that, apart from one small twist, mostly orchestrated due to limited freedom of choice, the plot is very predictable, and it falls onto the category of Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai, Avatar and many other stories of "enemy-becomes-friend".
Gameplay - 1/10 - as mentioned, one of the worst games I have ever played - and here I am giving my memory the benefit of the doubt. I can't remember any game worse than this one.
Replayability - 0/10 - if not so plagued by so many issues, there might be possibility to replay, get other achievements/trophies. As is, this game will go back to the shelf, and it will never be replayed.… Expand
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