Metro: Last Light - Review

Yup, doing one for this game too.

SPOILERS ARE IN THE QUOTE BUBBLE BELOW. IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS, JUST SKIP THE QUOTE. The rest is all spoiler-less and is quite a good read if I do say so myself.

SO, I had the privilege of not only playing the game, but seeing someone else play it too !
The game currently costs about 60 dollars in the steam store and I can fairly certainly tell you its worth just as much as it is.

So I think the best way to cover this is to give my honest opinion about the goods and the bad's just like in the first review I made for Metro 2033.

So lets start with the good things :
Guns : I cannot express just how satisfied I was with the gun system. No gun seemed that much better than the other, the ammo count for each of them was fairly balanced and the money system gave no problems. Finding guns was also not a problem with some of them being fairly better than the ones you could have bought in the previous shops you passed through. You have anything from a pistol/revolver to high powered sniper rifles. My personal favorite was the clip loaded shotgun that you receive during the later game time along with the high powered sniper rifle you get to use around in the A6 tunnels.

Interface : I noticed a massive improvement in their game interface. You have the game show you exactly which round is for which gun and it also lets you know whether you're running low on ammunition (with an exception if you're running ranger mode - but more on that later). The weapon customization has greatly improved as well as the inventory. If you've played Metro 2033, you can honestly tell the difference.

Graphics : God. Damn. I can safely tell you that the new engine for MetroLL is quite superior to the old. The new A4 Engine is nothing but a massive improvement and REALLY shows its power during game time. It has 4 different quality settings, more than 6 AA/AF types and even Texture Tessellation. Even though I couldn't run the game any higher than Normal on my current graphics card, I had a friend run it on maximum settings and stream it at 1080p and I can tell you the difference IS MASSIVE when it comes to detail. Don't let that get you down if you're running and older system though! The game still runs fine and looks visually appealing -but if you want the true experience, I recommend a higher series G card for this game.

AI : Now I know I said some good things for Artificial intelligence in Metro 2033, but this game has done nothing but keep it as it should be (possibly better). The mutants seem to be smart (don't fuck around / go idle / get stuck) and their movements are truly unpredictable. SAVE YOUR AMMO cause they're hard to shoot at times.

I think that about covers the goods in my opinion. Now onto the ONE bad!

Traps : The lack of traps really disappointed me. I know, this is probably more of an opinion based thing. But I really liked the fact the dev team put in the effort to make some good traps in the previous game to make the user cautious about how quickly you stormed into rooms / hallways. You were always alert about what was ahead. Given, yes there were some traps in this game but its not 1/3rd of the amount they had in 2033.

BEFORE YOU READ AHEAD PLEASE BE AWARE THESE COULD POTENTIALLY HARM YOUR GAME EXPERIENCE DUE TO MASS AMOUNT OF SPOILERS.

So to close it off like this :
>Awesome Visual Detail
>Balanced Guns
>Good Storyline
>Many Achievements
>Good AI/Good Interface

I'm going to rate this game at 9 out of 10 and I recommend it to everyone.
Truly worth the 60 dollars (even for a single player game).

Chee~

 

But ... but this game did have that ?

 

Well it's not 3 lights ...
It was replaced by the blue light though, yeah.
I think when its on it means you're visible while it being off means you're not. If not its vise-versa