Metro 2033 (2010) (VG)

Directors:

Keith Arem
Andrew Prokhorov

Writers:

Andrew Prokhorov
Vyacheslav Aristov
(more)

Release Date:

16 March 2010 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Fear the Future

Plot:

Man has fallen, struggling to survive within Moscow's metro. In the face of a new mysterious threat young Artyom must leave his home station for the first time, making a dangerous journey to the legendary Polis to enlist their help. |

Cast

Nina Avetisova
Steve Blum
Carolyn Hennesy
Sven Holmberg
Mark Ivanir
Boris Kievsky
Kristof Konrad
Yuri Lowenthal
Graham McTavish
Dave B. Mitchell
Trenton Rogers
Ari Rubin
Kirk Thornton
Alex Veadov

Directed by
Keith Arem
Andrew Prokhorov

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Vyacheslav Aristov
Dmitry Glukhovsky		story
Andrew Prokhorov

Produced by
Dean Sharpe	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Alexey Omelchuk

Sound Department
Aaron Gallant	....	dialogue editor
Austin Krier	....	dialogue editor

Other crew
Richard Dorton	....	motion capture actor

Production Companies

• 4A Games

Distributors

• Toy Head-Quarters (THQ) (2010) (worldwide) (DVD) (Xbox 360, PC)

Country:

Ukraine | USA

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:M | Australia:MA | Singapore:ADV

Company:

4A Games

Trivia:

While the game features frequent action, the novel only describes protagonist Artyom firing a weapon on no more than three occasions.

Quotes:

Yevgeniy/Eugine:[Yevgeniy needs to crank the hand-powered cart to escape the monsters in the tunnel] Artyom! Here, take my shotgun!

Excellent Single player game

A game set in post apocalyptic Russia has an excellent single player campaign but features no multiplayer or co-operative. The game also also is only about six hours in length and is linear. The game being linear isn't a bad thing but I'm just letting other people know that this isn't a game for everyone and if you are expecting to hundreds of hours out of it you are gonna be very Disappointed! Here's my Pros and Cons for the game:

Pros:

Excellent atmosphere!

The attention detail is stagerring - Seeing large groups of refugees in the tunnels talking, eating etc is just brilliantly done

Fantastic soundtrack and Good voice acting

Interesting story (based on the novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky) Though you do have to pay attention as you can easily miss some important plot developments

Great graphics though you will need a high end system to play this game!

Excellent set pieces such as riding on a pump train or defending a position with other soldiers against the monsters

The idea of using bullets as currency (to other other/upgraded guns) is an excellent idea and searching areas/scavenging for ammo is addictive!

Two endings which are both satisfying - You achieve the good ending by gaining moral points (such as giving a starving bum a bullet so he can buy food)

It's not a horror game but it does have a couple of scary/creepy moments which are brilliantly done!

Very quick loading time! like two seconds!

Cons:

The monsters are quite annoying at times since they alway attack you in the same way (runstraight toward you and bite you)and them attacking you in numbers can be frustating

The guns are little underpowered (for example it shouldn't take three shotgun shells to a nazi!) which make the combat a little harder considering you have to save your bullets for trading

The moral system is never explained within the game! So if you didn't work it out and didn't gain enough moral points you will get the bad ending!

Overall despite a few minor flaws I really enjoyed this game and I look forward to the dlc ranger pack and the sequel Metro 2034 :)