Metro 2033, game, ending, alternative ending, and OMG WOW!

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Well, I just finished Metro 2033 and I'd just like to say: simply stunning from start to finish. Play on 'hard' difficulty .. it forces you to move slowely and cautiously which is basically as the game intended. On normal or Easy, running round like some kind of Rambo will kind of lose you half the run. It's suposed to be blimin, blimin dangerous down there in the Metro!

I do have an amazing PC, so can not comment on the 'bad framerate' thing that seems to plague most reviews.

Thrilling storyline, amazing immersion, No 'spray and prey' that makes so many games unrealistic. Tough on ammo. Indeed the game has just taken my 'favourite game ever' spot -- some accolade indeed.

Got to the ending, then watched the alternative ending on youtube and wow, talk about sending shivers down my spine (if you just watch it now on youtube without playing the game through you will just think 'er, what?'). I mean - wow, a twist to beat all twists! mighty fine .. even more so when I wasn't actually expecting anything brilliant for a mere fiver ..

I reckon better than half-life 2. Better than stalker. Better than crysis. Just - 1 big - wow. Got it for £5 in the sale, and, frankly, better than any AAA titles I've played. Certainly whips MW2.

If you've got a powerful PC -- honestly, you could do a lot worse!! Give it a go. Blimin' marvellous. (unless you DO want spray and prey and run round like a headless chicken FPS laughs - TF2 this ain't).
 
I loved Metrod but when I finished it I was very disapointed, could have been a tonne better than it currently is.

Personally I think they should have gone the Stalker route and added more RPG elements, but with a heavy FPS style coating.
It had so much potential and didn't quite clear the gap for me. Totally deserving the 6 or so out of 10 that I've seen.
 
Yeah I finished it last week, fantastic game.

*minor spoilers*




I quite liked how they handled the endings, getting 'good' or 'bad' wasn't a case of purely kill all babies bad, save all babies good choices like some games, there were a lot of grey areas and more rational choices to getting good or bad 'points'.

Made me kinda annoyed that I got the 'bad' ending as, as far as I knew at the time I had been mostly been a decent chap, but it totally made sense for how the endings worked out and I didn't feel like an evil git just a regular guy.





*over*

Only thing I didn't like about the game was the pacing between the different elements in the game. For the most part it seemed to jump from story to action to scary way to often and sometimes you didn't get enough time to settle into it (not a bad thing for some of the scary bits :p).
 
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Yep, I loved this game as well.

The surface areas are really good, and I enjoyed the last segment of the game climibing up the tower.

This alternate ending, is this comething we could have invoked had we of done a certain action?
 
Iv read the book too.

As for how close is the game to the book, about 65% the same.

The ending are TOTALLY different tho.

I would say, they missed out a large chunk of action from the book in the game.

Such as the 'depths of hell nazis' the 'worm people' these would have been great in the game...

Would have added at least 5 hours of game play.
 
britboy4321 said:
I reckon better than half-life 2
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I did enjoy it but didn't get into it untill I was well into the 2nd half. On my GTX 460 at 1920x1200 it runs ok/good. I will be replaying it sometime in the future when I have a better card, which may be some time.
 
I was really enjoying it up until I came across some sort of mini enemy base (about 3-4 hours in?) and just couldn't kill them. No matter what I did I would die. I don't mind ammo rationing if the enemies go down in a realistic amount of shots. I must have fired 20 times from point blank at one guy who killed me.
 
really was an excelent game and the twist at the end if you get the good ending was fantastic.

Gona play threw it again since i just got it on PC
 
Game was pretty good, but I was gutted at the part when you got to the train station, area looked so cool to look around but it was just a pretty scene. Also thought the story was a bit naff. Looking forward to the next game though.
 
This game has both some of the best and worst elements of any FPS I've ever played. Awesome atmosphere and setting, but with a few terribly designed sections and an over-reliance on QTEs and jarring cutscenes. Here's hoping they improve things for the next game.
 
Twist, really, twist to end all twists, is anyone hear being remotely serious?

Very meh game as already said. Performance wise, if you enable the IQ dropping DOF sure, you'll get horrible framerates, don't enable DOF(yay, I'm looking at a part of the screen other than directly in the middle but its blurred, yippee, nothing like having a graphic card spend lots of time and effort rendering that area, then post effect blurs it, genius) and the card played great on a 5850 at 1920x1080 with everything else maxed out. I also turned of tesselation, can't see it, why bother.

Its not a horrible game, not even close, but the story is fairly generic, the set pieces predictable, its in the metro, or its some other series of dark tunnels, not particularly original. Graphical, apart from DOF/Tess, it looked very good, one of the best looking games out all year but still it wasn't ground breaking.

Gameplay wise, felt like a bog standard FPS, stand and defend area's, sneak into enemy base area's or go all guns blazing through them. Nothing very original about it, and the "normal guy trying to get somewhere to do something while having various flashbacks and trips through his own mind", my word has that been done to death.

Its okay, from what I remember its quite short, having looked at the alternate ending on youtube, theres literally NOTHING surprising about it, its the bog standard ending I actually expected was going to be what happened, that happens in so many games its embarassing...... beginning "they're our enemy" middle "they're our enemy" , end "wait, maybe they just want peace and I'm the guy who has to stop them being destroyed because its wrong" , thats the generic ending. The same beginning, and middle and end of "haha, kill them all, we win" jesus, THAT is the rarity in games these days.
 
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Twist, really, twist to end all twists, is anyone hear being remotely serious?

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The same beginning, and middle and end of "haha, kill them all, we win" jesus, THAT is the rarity in games these days.
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This is very true. The 'bad' ending actually took me by surprise. I was sure there was gonna be a twist along the lines of: "Turns out they weren't evil, maybe human beings are the real monsters." Or some such sci-fi trope.
 
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