| Metro 2033 (PC DVD) |  | From: THQ
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 430
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PCMETRO2033
EAN: 4005209130707
ASIN: B002TOL4OG
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earths surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age.
The year is 2033. An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside.
You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind. - Metro 2033 is a gripping, atmospheric first person shooter experience powered by cutting edge technology, featuring full DX10 and NVDIA PhysX support for high-end gaming PCs, to deliver incredible visuals
- Witness the everyday horrors of a broken society living in constant fear
- Brave the darkness of the tunnels, where mutants hunt their prey and ghostly spirits lurk
- Explore the desolate city-surface, trusting your gas mask and rifle to protect you from a poisoned world and the creatures that roam there
- Steel your nerve and prepare to face the terrors that await
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 Metro 2033 September 5, 2010
sliesthook
Good fun, Good graphics.Good story. Very short. Two days max.
Bargin if Picked up cheap on Amazon.
 SCARY FUN (TURN AA OFF) (STEAM GAME) August 31, 2010
dave00dance (uk)
i love a good story driven FPS shooter and this diddnt let me down the atmosphear is great and it had me jump out my seat more than once, the heavy breathing of the gas mask along with the howls and growls of the tunnel mutants makes for some very tense gameplay.
usualy i dont like dungeon crawling dark fps games but this hits the spot and theres nice changes of pace when you visit the surface
i played this on a ATI 5850 4core phenom 2 with 4gig i turned the settings down to high at first because the game didnt run well with resolutions over 12 hundred
its onjly later when i turned the AA completly off that i saw massive improvments
and it still looked great
charactger movements are really good facial expresions arnt too good and they have wierd super white eyes
voice acting is great for english im now going through it with the russian dialog setting
and you get free game RED FACTION ARMAGEDON
i dont know what this is exactly but same with alien vs predator the game installs on to steam network so i assume so im probably stuck with it now :(
I will never moan about London Underground ever again. August 24, 2010
L. St David (London, UK)
Played on Windows Vista 64. Striker II Extreme MB. Intel Core 2 Quad 6600. ATI Radeon HD5750. Creative SB X-FI.
As others will have pointed out, there's no open world exploration here - but my goodness, what a world it is.
The attention to detail is quite phenomenal. I spent much of the time wishing it was an open-world game so that I could just wander around and take it all in. It seems a shame that much of the time you're so busy being pulled along by the action that you miss out examining the incredible work done by the artists.
I couldn't run the game on the highest settings with the kit listed above, but on High nonetheless. The only issues came when using grenades. Weaponry and explosives will impact everything they hit, and grenades have a very satisfying destructive force, not just on combatants, but everything else too, although the downside was a temporary, but considerable framerate drop.
Gunplay and battles are at times tense and drawn out, or absolutely frenetic panic-fests depending on the nature of the foe, and armament decisions have a very real impact on your approach and ability to progress. Ammunition is a severely limited commodity.
Another aspect which adds a lot to the feeling of claustrophobia is your relationship with the world outside the metro system. As the DVD cover suggests, you'll need a gas mask, as merely breathing unprotected will kill you, and so you need to ration gas mask filters to ensure your survival. The outside world is at once beautiful and terrifying, and you won't be allowed to enjoy carefree tourism for too long without falling foul of hideous winged beasts that look like cathedral gargoyles come to life.
There are a few levels which are incredibly frustrating, and found me sobbing quietly into my keyboard, which is why I've marked it down. The instructions you're given by your comrades on how to get through them don't appear to entirely tell the whole story. Librarians - they are not what you might imagine!
I'd suggest much of the appeal of this game comes from the fact that it's evolved out of a novel - and so the sense of being part of a very well-defined and fully formed world is incredibly strong. There are some very beautifully imagined other worldy aspects to it too. You might almost be a character in a Tarkovsky film, albeit at a rather faster pace.
It's not going to enslave you to your PC to the extent that Fallout 3 or STALKER will, but it's a very memorable adventure which certainly left me wanting more.
Because of this game I recently upgraded my mother board and CPU to try and accommodate the highest quality settings and have found the developers have integrated an extremely annoying motion blur which contaminates everything. Whilst adding to the sense of chaos it seems to have been ramped up a little too high, and cannot be turned off separately. Visual Quality presets are the only options, you can't alter individual elements. It's something I hope the modding community will advise on in time.
This is definitely a game I will revisit though - the atmosphere is that compelling.
Finally, a touch I found which contributed enormously to the atmosphere was the option of playing the game in the original Russian, with English subtitles.
Pleasantly surprised August 24, 2010
Mr. R. Todhunter (lake district)
I've been waiting for FFXIV for a while now and have been purchasing random games to keep going in the mean time. I recently upgraded my pc, which is now running a phenom II X4 965 CPU (seriously, who makes these names?) and a HD Radeon 5870 graphics card. So any game that has relatively high graphics specs looks appealing to me. Therefore I bought Metro 2033.
I was genuinely surprised at how good this game was after reading all the reviews on here. The graphics are truly phenomenal. If you have a rig capable of pulling off the high end settings of this game, for the price you should just buy it anyway to see and how amazing it is.
The story is enjoyable and keeps you interested and there are two alternative endings depending on what you did in the game. My only quarrel is many of the 'Main' characters in this game seem to look exactly the same and with their Russian accents speaking in English, they also sounded the same. This made it difficult to develop any kind of relationship towards any character and towards the end (I won't spoil it for you), there is a relatively important scene where one of these characters gives you something and I have no idea who he was!
Alot of people complained about the gameplay which I had no problem with at all. If you've played CODMW2 or HL2, the hit detection feels exactly the same. I imagine most of the people complaining about this are people unable to play the game on max graphics (although they select it anyway) resulting in lag.
Seriously, buy this game. It's £12 for god sake!
 Disappointing August 23, 2010
Kuldeep Mann (Reading, Berkshire)
The AI in this game is very very poor. The monsters just look at you sometimes, no matter how you shoot the enemies they keep talking to the wall etc. There are so many annoying aspects and the weapons provided in this game somehow do not give you the sense of 'shooting enjoyment'. The character animation and their graphics are very dated - overall not my cup of tea and I gave up after few levels.
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