Metro2033 is a fairly lacklustre FPS that rips its story verbatim from a book of the same name. The story is the best part of Metro2033, and even that is kinda boring stock standard Post Apocalyptic dire future schlock ala' Fallout 3.
And we all know what I think of Fallout 3.
The environments are repetitive, mostly train tunnels or above ground bombed out ruins. Some of the enemies are interesting, such as these little electro-dudes that kill anything that moves. But most are just amorphous monsters that want to eat you or random humans. One of the better parts of the game is a section where you have to get past a group of Fascists fighting a group of Communists and neither like you. But it all goes downhill from there...
Especially when you meet the librarians; I hate these fucking things. The game throws you a string of forced stealth sections with these librarians, invincible ugly Ape like mofos that seem to be able to spot you no matter what anyway... When this happened, I went from "Metro 2033 is OK" to "RARGH!!! HAT YOU METRO2033!!! HAT YOU 4A GAMES!!!!". Heck, I didn't bother stealthing, it didn't work! I just ran through and died repeatedly until I got through... And I love stealth games done right... like Thief 2. Man that game rocked, I'd play that over Metro 2033 anyday.
Ultimately, what sets this game apart from any random FPS?
...it's Russian? No wait, there's STALKER.
...it's got train tunnels? ROFL! Like every FPS made in the last 10 years!
...it uses bullets as currency? Who cares, it's annoying anyway.
It's sad, because a game with it's setting all done on a silver platter should be able to present the setting well, and encourage us to pick up the book it's based on. Maybe what they should have done, was not make us the protagonist of the book, but a supporting character doing our own thing but in the same setting. That might have been better... give us a game where we can just explore and do quests and kill stuff (like fallout 3 except hopefully better) instead of dragged along like a puppy through more and more kilometers of boring arse train tunnels! What makes an enjoyable story in a book and an engaging story in a game are two different things!
Metro 2033 is still full priced ($79.99 USD) at time of writing... and it's not even a budget title.
Stay away from this boring PoS!
ps the russian sounding voice actors were kinda cool.... not 80 bucks cool, but they're something.
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