Peter McCoy
May 22nd, 2010, 08:57:24 AM
Anybody else played this?
Soomewhat familiar territory if you've played Fallout 3 or the Stalker games. Set in and above the Metro system of Moscow after a nuclear war erradicated the surface. You play Artyom and are tasked with delivering something to another station - you've never left the safety of your own station since you arrived there as a small boy. The tunnels linking the stations are infested with mutants - dogs, feral-looking beasts, even humanoid forms lurking in the shadows. The stations themselves are microcosms - each Metro has it's own culture and customs, like a city-state all on its own.
The currency of the game is military-grade bullets - trade them in for large amounts of poor-quality 'dirty' rounds or even new weapons and equipment. Of course, your bullets are also used for killing enemies. So you're torn between surviving and buying stuff to help you survive. You have a knife and grenades and throwing knives, but the cost of medkits being as high as it is, you're afraid to use anything other than long-range weaponry most of the time.
There are some really nice touches in the game. For example, a battery-powered torch that you have to crank up to keep charged up. If left on, the light gradually fades, becomming dimmer and dimmer until it eventually goes out. In a firefight were gunshots flash brightly, you may not notice this as much, but if there's a lull in the combat you'll suddenly realise. And then mutants come out to play and they don't give away their position with gunfire - so you're trying desperately to crank up the torch while you can hear them getting close and closer and they could be coming from anywhere.
Some weapons also need charging up - I found a pneumatic rifle which is pathetic if you don't pump up the pressure. But if you pump it up to full it's bloody lethal but that takes time. So you can go half way in a pinch and hope it's enough, but it;s better to switch to a faster-firing slugthrower. Also I have a shotgun - LMB for the left barrel - RMB for the right barrel - a nice touch but sometimes annoying when you forget in the heat of a fight. And at the same time there's something very satisfying about having to press both buttons at once to fire both barrels simultaneously.
I'd type more but I finish work in a few minutes - more when I get home. Play it, it's a good game!
Soomewhat familiar territory if you've played Fallout 3 or the Stalker games. Set in and above the Metro system of Moscow after a nuclear war erradicated the surface. You play Artyom and are tasked with delivering something to another station - you've never left the safety of your own station since you arrived there as a small boy. The tunnels linking the stations are infested with mutants - dogs, feral-looking beasts, even humanoid forms lurking in the shadows. The stations themselves are microcosms - each Metro has it's own culture and customs, like a city-state all on its own.
The currency of the game is military-grade bullets - trade them in for large amounts of poor-quality 'dirty' rounds or even new weapons and equipment. Of course, your bullets are also used for killing enemies. So you're torn between surviving and buying stuff to help you survive. You have a knife and grenades and throwing knives, but the cost of medkits being as high as it is, you're afraid to use anything other than long-range weaponry most of the time.
There are some really nice touches in the game. For example, a battery-powered torch that you have to crank up to keep charged up. If left on, the light gradually fades, becomming dimmer and dimmer until it eventually goes out. In a firefight were gunshots flash brightly, you may not notice this as much, but if there's a lull in the combat you'll suddenly realise. And then mutants come out to play and they don't give away their position with gunfire - so you're trying desperately to crank up the torch while you can hear them getting close and closer and they could be coming from anywhere.
Some weapons also need charging up - I found a pneumatic rifle which is pathetic if you don't pump up the pressure. But if you pump it up to full it's bloody lethal but that takes time. So you can go half way in a pinch and hope it's enough, but it;s better to switch to a faster-firing slugthrower. Also I have a shotgun - LMB for the left barrel - RMB for the right barrel - a nice touch but sometimes annoying when you forget in the heat of a fight. And at the same time there's something very satisfying about having to press both buttons at once to fire both barrels simultaneously.
I'd type more but I finish work in a few minutes - more when I get home. Play it, it's a good game!