METRO 2033

[Corwin]

I played a couple hours this morning. I quite like it so far. Didn't encounter bugs, the atmosphere is great, and "safe zones" full of detail and people. It's a bit like a linear Stalker game, but with higher production values. It trades its open-endedness for better cut-scenes (Call of Pripyat's cutscenes were laughable) and "life". I haven't really noticed anything about the human AI yet, but I think the section I'm about to play features more bandits so I'll see that then. Good game so far though, I like how they reward exploration by having ammo work as currency and placing stashes everywhere.

[Buddy]

":abtlpgnt]pc x xbox comparison. lol

http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=15 ... arch=metro

Whats lol about it?

[-HP-]

It's lol they even bother to compare.

[Taylor]

Nothing generates web traffic quite like platform comparisons.

[D3ads]

Those AI bugs only appear on the xbox version apparently, I've not heard anyone having those problems on the PC, guess console owners got the bad port for once...

I've got it.. but not had time to even install yet... tomorrow.. hopefully.

[Grinwhrl]

Giant Bombs quick look of the game made it look really good. The game appears to have similarities to Half Life 1. I will have to borrow it from the Ubi store.

[-HP-]

C'mon guys... it's a good old FPS "PC" game, every mapcorean has the duty to buy it!

[D3ads]

Returning to Steam for the first time in 5 years...

[-HP-]

What a revolution it must be for you!

Steam is awesome man, nothing wrong with it.

[D3ads]

Seems to be ok so far... game wouldn't start to begin with but I restarted Steam and it was fine.

First of all the graphics in this game are.... astonishing... some of the best ever in a game for sure.

Playing on high @ 1280x1024, bit of slowdown in areas with lots of people around but mostly a solid 70-50fps in combat areas so far.

Here's a couple of screenshots;

Unfortunately you can't disable or enable advanced graphics effects which is annoying as Hell...

[D3ads]

Damn.. the fucking bloom shit slows some scenes down to 20fps... ffs.

I was going to play in Russian but some of the background audio doesn't have subtitles so you'll miss some ambience... so for first playthrough I'm using English voices, which are kind poor really. I tested the Russian voices and they are fantastic... shame not everything is subtitled.. but the sentences of some characters loop so it gets repetitive so it's probably not a massive deal.

First person cutscenes are well done... really don't know why there are thirdperson scenes... doesn't really work too well in narrative.

Children in a videogame... omg!

More shots, even something simple like a sink has oodles of detail in it.

Yet another game dev using cgtextures

Character model detail is insane.

Objectives clipboard is a cool idea and works well.

I can see me falling in love with this game very quickly...

[-HP-]

Dude, your screenshots are stretched. if you have a 16:10 monitor, you should be playing at 1280*800 not 1280*1024.

Awesome shots tho!

[Jetsetlemming]

That's a cool lighter. You know, I was just thinking the other day how rare it is to see a non-Zippo style lighter in a videogame.

[D3ads]

":35a7jerl]Dude, your screenshots are stretched. if you have a 16:10 monitor, you should be playing at 1280*800 not 1280*1024.

Awesome shots tho!

I don't know what monitor it is, it's a 19" LCD and that's all I know Maybe loweing res will help the framerate though...

Jets: Not since NOLF afaik...

[Zeta]

nolf