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Metro 2033 (Xbox 360) | 
| From: THQ
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 346
Format: Unknown format
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Media: Video Game
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: No Operating System
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: XBOXMETRO2033
EAN: 4005209132466
ASIN: B002TOL4OQ
Release Date: March 19, 2010
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Product Description
Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earths surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age.
The year is 2033. An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside.
You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind. - Metro 2033 is a gripping, atmospheric first person shooter experience powered by cutting edge technology, featuring full DX10 and NVDIA PhysX support for high-end gaming PCs, to deliver incredible visuals
- Witness the everyday horrors of a broken society living in constant fear
- Brave the darkness of the tunnels, where mutants hunt their prey and ghostly spirits lurk
- Explore the desolate city-surface, trusting your gas mask and rifle to protect you from a poisoned world and the creatures that roam there
- Steel your nerve and prepare to face the terrors that await
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 48
 Scary, heart racing, fun... Love it August 29, 2010
XboxDude
amazing,
I loved playing this game!
Fun, scary and a great shooter.
only downside:
no freeplay mode after campain :(
Excellent August 29, 2010
Moses Jones
Having read the ign review I wasn't expecting much, but I thought I'd try it out anyway. Simply put ign was wrong(in my opinion), I give this game 10/10. The atmosphere and depth of the game is staggering. Definetly worth buying.
 disappointing August 20, 2010
M. horrell (, ENGLAND)
i found metro to be very frustrating to play. i've been playing 'shooters' since robocop on the commodore 64 (cod, fallout, deadspace,fear,crysis,gears of war,halo,soldier of fortune,doom, quake etc etc) and so have seen a few.
I set off on metro on medium difficulty, but within a couple of levels had to turn down to 'easy' because of repeated, failed, attempts to clear short sections of the game was driving me mad! also, more than once, i got killed/trapped and respawned in a situtaion where i would be instantly killed/trapped again. Early weapons are very poor and leave you thrashing the game pad, trying to swap weapons if ammo runs out etc. Also in the game, when trying to use stealth i often seemed to be in total blackness and unable to see enemies who (conversly) were able to pick me off from a distance with ease! Missions were poorly explained and i was usually just following a compass bearing with no idea why or what i was trying to acheive until i stumbled over a highlighted object or area. Anyway to prevent my tv and xbox from being flung out of the window i have resigned metro 2033 back to its case.
 This awkward Game is very badly made, get caught on graphics. Voices are "compare the meerkat". buttons are ridiculous. AVOID! August 16, 2010
Mr. Brown (uk)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Awful Character voices (compare the meerkat)
Getting caught on scenery constantly
Buttons are ridiculous (not just a bit odd)
changing weapons ridiculous (left right scroll thing)
stealth stupid
audio annoying (like constant repeating phrases by guard in some stealth points)
audio annoying (like constant repeating phrases GUN shop)
guns sound rubbish, feel awkward, are not satisfying.
plot - only got half way
restart in stupid places (like just about to die) only autosave
level design confusing (totally lost outside) or linear (a tunnel)
I've played and completed most games, but this one I'm giving up because i am battling with the problems in the game that is breaking me out of the immersion of the game.
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The designers seem to have attempted to put everything other than the fire button in the wrong place, which they have succeeded in. During the tutorial your first thought when informed of every buttons function is "Why the heck is that command on that button?!"
Im sure you are wondering, "Well why didnt you just custom assign your buttons?" Well I didnt because the designers thoughtfully didnt include the ability to.
The combat is alarmingly clunky, which isnt helped by the stupid control layout, and the fact your character seems to interpret the command "DUCK" as "STAND RAMROD STRAIGHT!". Which is a problem as it means you cant take cover while trying to deal with the terrible weapon selection which rather than scrolling to the next weapon slot, goes to the grenades, then to a random slot, then to the knife, then to another random slot then starts going in order, which becomes somewhat frustrating.
So you may think, "OK since the game has made combat so god awful I will sneak" Which is a mistake. Your character seems to be wearing a uniform made entirely out of sequins, though this isnt a problem as enemies can only see you when they are within arms reach. Which you would think means they are easy to silently kill with your knife, or the butt of your gun. Well you would be wrong, the enemies only die when you have stripped all of thier clothing off, which makes stealth kills hard as you have to first shoot/slice off their masks, then their helmets, then their balaclavas, before their head is vulnerable, which bizzarely because of your characters laughable physique generally takes 3+ stabs or 7+ gun bludgeonings to damage.
Which is a problem as one none lethal attack against any guard suddenly permanently alerts every enemy on the map to your current location. However this is not the limit to the terrors of this games shockingly appalling AI.
The AI in this game does one thing in combat, find the nearest chest high *blank* and then start popping up and down behind it throwing grenades non-stop if you arent within direct line of sight and spraying unneringly innacurate fire when you are, all the while spouting the same 4 "threats" over and over and over and over and over. Of course this is when the AI is functional, enemies will so often spin circles on the spot ignoring your prescence, or walk in circles while facing away from you even while you unload buckshot into their backs in order to take thier clothes off enough to kill them.
Come to mention it all the voice acting is terrible, from your characters bizzare alien screech when he uses a bayonet to the terrible faux russian accents, delivered slurringly by actors who dont seem to want to be there. Which becomes annoying nearly instantly but will leave you wanting to beat yourself to death just to avoid having to listen to any more of it after the nineteenth slow motion throwing knife kill cut scene leads to some of the most pathetic gloating imaginable.
Which come to mention it is bizzare, nearly every cutscene involves someone killing someone else with a throwing knife at some point. Your character spontaniously decides to give up to a single guard after effortlessly single handedly slaughtering his 40 comrades then gets rescued by a character killing the guard with a throwing knife so often that if you downed a shot every time it happened your liver would explode before the halfway mark of game. At one point you rescue a child and return it to its mother and I was actually astounded due to the fact there wasnt a slow mo throwing knife within the thank you cutscene.
I cant really give a true review of the story unfortunately as I was that sickened by the game that I eventually gave up at what I assume was the midpoint (as I was halfway through the handy map the game provides). But there are so many cliches, stupid decisions and totally unneccasary random actions that the story obviously cant be any good.
Now the graphics... are actually ok, they arent very good, but compared to the rest of this game they are divine nectar. If you can ignore the voice acting while walking around stations you will find the world wonderfully arranged, you get the feeling that this is a bleak, cobbled together nightmare for its people who have to scrounge to survive in dingy tunnels whilst fighting off slavering mutants very effectively. When you go outside the illusion does fall apart somewhat as you gaze upon a seemingly endless field of the same 3 copy pasted vehicles, interspersed with surprisingly unconvincing looking destroyed buildings whilst trudging between underground stations that are situated so close together that you wonder what the point of the underground system even was.
Often one station will be on the other side of an average sized office building. Were the people of Moscow that lazy or fat that extremely short walks were undesirable compared to the massive public expense of building a needless subway system?
So in closing;
This game is not worth buying, or renting, or lending from a friend, or even watching your friend play it. And whoever deemed it fit for release needs to have thier mental condition assessed urgently before s/he damages themself or others.
Brillant August 11, 2010
B. Freeman (Scotland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
a grim view of a future Earth, where you have to battle to survive instead of just a 'spray and pray' shooter, you actually need to think abit more lovingly refreshing.
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