#METRO 2033 REDUX SERIES#

I also like the sense of camaraderie you often get between your various companions. Metro’s story is not particularly original, but it is for the most part a well-written affair, melancholy enough to lend the premise some weight without being utterly dismal. In fact, the only thing that remains more or less intact is the story, which involves the young protagonist Artyom embarking on a journey to warn the Metro’s capital Polis about an incursion of a powerful new enemy known as the Dark Ones. It alters levels, adds new sections to the Metro, and makes some pretty fundamental alterations to how the game’s systems work too. It changes just about everything in the game. And I’m glad I did, because good grief Redux is a whole lot more than just a visual overhaul. Since I was planning on returning to 2033 anyway as a primer for the launch of Exodus, however, I figured I might as well play the slightly more updated version. Or more specifically, it didn’t seem like enough time to make buying the remaster for the circa £30 Deep Silver was asking for it at the time a worthwhile prospect. I’ve no issue with remastering or remaking games, but Redux launched just four years after the original Metro, and that didn’t seem like enough time to make remastering a game a worthwhile prospect.

The reason for this was mainly, ' What’s the point?'. Yet while I’ve both the original version of 2033 and Last Light, I’ve never played the Redux version of Metro 2033, which takes the first game and rebuilds it in the more powerful Last Light engine.

#METRO 2033 REDUX SERIES#

I’ve been a fan of the Metro series more or less since the first game launched a terrifying nine years ago. With Metro: Exodus shimmering on the horizon like the corona of a nuclear explosion, now seems like the perfect time to return to where the end began.

Metro 2033 redux