[Losi]

After recently completing the game Metro: Last Light I decided to write a review on it.

Plot:

Spoiler:

Metro: Last Light takes place one year after the events of Metro 2033, following the canonical ending in which Artyom chose to proceed with the missile strike against the Dark Ones (this happens regardless of your actions in the first game). The Rangers have since occupied the D6 military facility, a huge pre-war bunker with miles of tunnels that have yet to be fully explored, with Artyom himself now an official Ranger. It is shown that even after a year, Artyom is still haunted from launching the missiles that caused the Dark Ones' extinction when they only sought peace. Consequentially, he suffers nightmares. Despite their best efforts, word of D6 has spread around the Metro, with rumors that the bunker may contain enough supplies to sustain the Metro indefinitely. Tensions run high as the rival factions prepare for war in the hope of seizing the bunker and its contents for themselves.

Khan, a wandering mystic, arrives at D6 to inform Artyom and the Rangers that a single Dark One survived the missile strike. Khan believes that this Dark One is the key to humanity's future, and wants to make peace with it; Colonel Miller, the Ranger's leader, wants to eliminate it as a potential threat. Miller sends Artyom to the surface with the mission to kill the Dark One, accompanied by Anna, who is Miller's sarcastic daughter but also the Rangers' best sniper.

Artyom succeeds in finding the Dark One, who turns out to be just a child, but is quickly captured by soldiers of the Fourth Reich and separated from the little Dark One. Pavel Morozov, a good-natured Red Line soldier who is captured elsewhere, teams up with Artyom in order to escape, and the two befriend each other after fighting through the Metro tunnels and across the devastated surface. When they reach a Red Line settlement, however, Pavel is revealed to be a high-ranking officer of the Red Line and although he still respects Artyom, he proceeds to detain Artyom to learn more about the Rangers and the Dark One, as he believes his cause outweighs his friendship with Artyom.

Artyom manages to escape, and races Pavel's forces to locate the Dark One and Anna, who has been kidnapped by Lesnitsky, a Red Line spy amongst the Rangers. En route, he stumbles across a contingent of Red Line forces massacring the inhabitants of a station, supposedly to contain a mysterious epidemic. In fact, as Artyom quickly learns, it was the Red Line who introduced the virus to the station, weaponized Ebola acquired from the D6 vault by Lesnitsky, in order to test its efficacy. Artyom finds Anna and frees her. Unfortunately, they are forced to escape the station after their gas masks are damaged. As a result, they are quarantined after their rescue in case they are infected. With all hope apparently lost, Anna shows the softer and more vulnerable side of her personality, and they give in to their desire and have sex.

After they test negative for symptoms of the virus, Artyom leaves and encounters Khan. With Khan's assistance, Artyom finally manages to locate the young Dark One, and in a series of hallucinatory flashbacks, recalls not only that he was saved by a Dark One as a child but, as the first human they met, he was psychically adopted by the Dark Ones, intended to form a bridge between their species and his. Artyom thereafter vows to make amends by protecting the little Dark One, and the two travel to Polis, the Metro's central station, where a peace settlement between Hansa, the Red Line, and the Reich is taking place. Artyom encounters both Lesnitsky and Pavel along the route to Polis, either killing them or letting them live after confrontations with both. Along the way, the little Dark One senses that there is a group of hibernating Dark Ones in an unexplored and locked portion of D6 and he decides to wake them up after finishing their mission. After arriving at Polis, the little Dark One uses his telepathic abilities to make the Red Line leader, Chairman Moskvin, publicly confess that the peace conference is simply a diversion to enable General Korbut to seize D6 and its bioweapon stores, who would then use them to purge the Metro of all the inhabitants not aligned with the Red Line. Artyom and the rest of the Rangers rush to the bunker to make a final stand against Korbut's army, and very nearly defeat them, but are ultimately incapacitated by an armored train ramming into their station. A heavily injured Artyom awakes to the group surrounded by Red Line soldiers, who are preparing to execute them. (from Wikipedia)

Characters:
1. Artyom (main character)
2. Miller
3. Khan
4. Pavel
5. Anna

My opinions:
This is easily one of my favorite games. I've read the book Metro 2033, but haven't played the first game based off of the book. From what I've read, it's recommended to read the book or play the first game, then proceed to play Metro: LL. I agree with this, the plot is so rich and intricate that it can be harder to understand without prior knowledge. But make sure this doesn't deter you from playing the game. I can rate this one of my favorite games of 2014 even though it came out a few years ago. If you want to put down a few more bones, feel free to pick up the Metro: LL Redux edition. The newer game has a higher resolution for Metro: 2033 among other things.

Rating: 8.6/10


Pick up the game for Steam here:
(Redux bundle link) http://store.steampowered.com/sub/44169/
(Single Metro: LL link) http://store.steampowered.com/app/287390..._151_150_1

In game images:



IGN review:

[Master]

Nice review. Looks like a good game will buy when I finish building my gaming pc.

[ねこまっしぐら]

I've recently finished the game. I think that it was really good. The funny thing is that I was drunk. I just got drunk and decided to play some video games, I decided to play Metro: Last Light. I was kinda surprised when

Spoiler:

Artyom had sex with Anna. Perhaps this plot was kinda forced because I don't really remember any drama or anything. She was pretty mean to him in the beginning of the game. Maybe she's a tsundre character. In the sniper mission, where you play as her, you do try to save Artyom. So maybe that hints that she did kinda like him.

Maybe I have to read the book to find out more.

Here are some screenshots that I took while playing:

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A lot of the screenshots that I took didn't come out too well because I was playing with motion blur on. Here are some good ones though. Can you tell that I play with everything maxed out though? :-)

[Losi]

I've recently finished the game. I think that it was really good. The funny thing is that I was drunk. I just got drunk and decided to play some video games, I decided to play Metro: Last Light. I was kinda surprised when

Spoiler:

Artyom had sex with Anna. Perhaps this plot was kinda forced because I don't really remember any drama or anything. She was pretty mean to him in the beginning of the game. Maybe she's a tsundre character. In the sniper mission, where you play as her, you do try to save Artyom. So maybe that hints that she did kinda like him.

Maybe I have to read the book to find out more.

Here are some screenshots that I took while playing:

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A lot of the screenshots that I took didn't come out too well because I was playing with motion blur on. Here are some good ones though. Can you tell that I play with everything maxed out though? :-)

It's good to see that other people enjoyed the game as much as I did. This game really let my graphics card know it's time for an upgrade. I turned off all filters so I could get full 1440p resolution with motion blur on. The game speaks for itself. The book is fantastic as well as the games. Highly recommend you play the first one as well.

[Blunt]

As soon as I'm done finishing up the game i'm playing, I will be playing both metro's because I bought the xbox one bundle.