metro 2033 -eurogamer review

humanji wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if Red Faction Guerrilla come with this game? I bought it in Gamestop today and the disk was in it. Just wondering if that's normal or a cock up.

It's normal. They've been giving away free copies with it.

I actually got the game on saturday through metaboli for 29 sterling. They just sent me a key to register on steam.

I really need a new graphics card. It plays ok but there are notable slowdowns in parts. No idea what to get. I had been planning for a a gtx 285 or 295 but they are too bloody expensive still. I'm hoping for a price drop in them when the fermi cards come out next week but I won't be counting on it seeing Nvidia's track record with pricing. Might be time to take a look at ATI for the first time in nearly 8 years.

Sasquatch76 wrote: »

Any replay value do you reckon?

There are 2 different endings. And for my own immersion, on my first play i palyed with russian voice overs and english subtitles, now im doing playthrough 2, and playing in english. Thats about it! But its a fantastic game, and at the very least well worth a weeks rental.

Sasquatch76 wrote: »

I'm a PC gamer, so no renting for me. But thanks for the feedback I'm thinking I'll wait til it drops in price a little (and maybe til I have upgraded!).

If you fancy a great, atmospheric fps and you dont mind it being linear then metro is a fantastic choice. On my 2nd play im coming across loads of stuff i missed first time too

Decided to hold off playing it until I got a new graphics card. Finally ordered an ATI HD5850 yesterday. Hopefully it will be an improvement over my current 8800GT.

Agricola wrote: »

Take it from someone whos done the exact same upgrade, it will make a huge difference. Im running that card on an i7 with 6gb of ram and its chewed through everything ive thrown at it. This game seems to be an animal for specs from what ive read though. It might not be the most efficiently coded game when it comes to memory usage. Ill let the price drop alittle and Ill probably get when I finish Mass Effect 2.

I'm going to see if I can keep the 8800 in as a dedicated physx card. I know Nvidia are turning off physx if they detect and ati card in the system but I found an unofficial patch to work around it:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1456964

I played through the first chapter with the 8800 and the frame rate wasn't the best. I'll have to upgrade my cpu this year as well. It's only a phenom 9600.

I got my 5850 today. Installing it was a little more hassle than I thought. It seems my motherboard (m2n-sli deluxe) doesn't agree with the 5850 100%.
When I boot, the card's fan speeds up then slows back down then repeats this 8 more times before it starts to run properly. None of the other components on the board will start until it has completed this cycle meaning the machine now takes ages to boot.
Seems it's an issue with the nvidia chipset on the board. When the machine boots it seems ok.

I started up Metro 2033 and loaded up the "chase" level for a few minutes. Looks much better but I'll have to spend some time checking for stability issues with the card now :mad:

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Windows 7? Trouble is, Windows 7 shows You the desktop then loads the graphics driver to trick You into thinking its booting quicker

Nah. It's not os related it's a problem with the bios. It starts the second I turn the power on before it even gets to pos bios. I saw posts on the asus forums about the same issue.
The first thing you would think it was is an insufficient psu. That's what I thought at first but I have an 850w unit so it should be ok.

wayne040576 wrote: »

Nah. It's not os related it's a problem with the bios. It starts the second I turn the power on before it even gets to pos bios. I saw posts on the asus forums about the same issue.
The first thing you would think it was is an insufficient psu. That's what I thought at first but I have an 850w unit so it should be ok.

Weird, I had something similar happen when I upgraded. Im running Win 7 64bit with an Asus P6T delux v2 mobo. Most gpus ive had did the, fan whirring up to full speed for 10 seconds when you press the power button, thing but this was different. I actually got to the windows login screen then the cards fan would hit 100% for maybe 30 long seconds before functioning normally again. But its stopped of its own accord. The fan only goes above idle now when I start a game.

*Bump*

Just finished it there.

I was a little disappointed with the ending. After all the times during the game when Also, it was only when I went looking that I saw that
Aside from that ambiguity (and the insanely annoying level ) I really enjoyed the game.

I loved the atmosphere, you could cut the tension with a knife. Some tremendous set pieces and bloody hell, the sound effects were fantastic. I also thought the survival horror aspect was great, with some really nice touches (having to look at your mission journal in-game, having to protect your face from mutants so they don't crack your gas mask, and the general claustrophobia).

Reservations: I thought the story could have been explained a little better. For example, The only other reservation I had was that the game felt somewhat formulaic at times (you're in a group, you investigate something on your own, a door locks or a wall crumbles and you're on your own until you can find a way back to them).

Overall though, a highly compelling, highly atmospheric, and thoroughly enjoyable game. It's a bit on the short side, but I did enjoy the difficulty level; I played it on normal and found it suitably challenging.

Necronomicon wrote: »

*Bump*

Just finished it there.

I was a little disappointed with the ending. After all the times during the game when

you got sucked into a dream sequence, I was expecting more of an explanation on the Dark Ones. I went looking online and most of peoples' information seemed to be derived from the books, which didn't help much when you've only played the game.

Also, it was only when I went looking that I saw that

there were two endings. I had no idea that there was a 'moral decision' theme running throughout the game. When I discovered what those choices were, I could only remember two of them, and they didn't particularly seem worthy of affecting the outcome of humanity. Moreover, I'm not entirely sure which ending was 'good' - I watched the alternate ending on YouTube but there seems to be debate on which was good or bad.

Aside from that ambiguity (and the insanely annoying level

in D6 when you're fighting those exploding globe things, nearly melting my pc

) I really enjoyed the game.

I loved the atmosphere, you could cut the tension with a knife. Some tremendous set pieces

(some great ones in the library mission)

and bloody hell, the sound effects were fantastic. I also thought the survival horror aspect was great, with some really nice touches (having to look at your mission journal in-game, having to protect your face from mutants so they don't crack your gas mask, and the general claustrophobia).

Reservations: I thought the story could have been explained a little better. For example,

delivering Hunter's message after travelling halfway across Moscow felt anti-climatic, because I had no idea what that message was. Also, as I said above, I felt that the Dark Ones needed more of an explanation.

The only other reservation I had was that the game felt somewhat formulaic at times (you're in a group, you investigate something on your own, a door locks or a wall crumbles and you're on your own until you can find a way back to them).

Overall though, a highly compelling, highly atmospheric, and thoroughly enjoyable game. It's a bit on the short side, but I did enjoy the difficulty level; I played it on normal and found it suitably challenging.

Hunters message is explained to you in the cut scene at the start of the game!! He tasks you with warning polis that the threat of the dark ones is a threat to the entire metro system and needs to be stopped at all costs

Yeah, its fairly cheap now whatever way you get it. I offered a dude on ebay 11 sterling for a brand new pc version and he accepted. It included Ref Faction Guerilla too, so 2 games, less than a year old, for less than 15 quid. Nice.

Im about 3 levels into Metro now. Really enjoying it. Im finding it quite challenging, even on normal. Theres no free lunchs here like you'd get in western developed games. Ive replayed a certain level where you get ambushed by mutants around 15 times now. Its pretty ridiculous as not only are your weapons crap, you run out of ammo easily and even when you do manage to kill the seemingly endless onslaught of enemies, you get a cracked gas mask for your troubles and end up choking to death!

The secret to it seems to be a slower pace and possibly picking off mutants with a rifle (which i need to buy)

Im running it on DX11 at 1920*1200 on high. Very high introduces some noticeable lag in certain areas but high is nice and fluid. The game looks amazing, a real showcase for my 5850. The first game Ive had thats really tested it.

PogMoThoin wrote: »

They stated 8GB ram as recomended requirements, the process is using at most 130MB of my ram It does run evenly on all 4 cores of my quad though and doesn't just thrash one core like most games, really needs a quad from what I've read

seems strange that it only eats up that much memory? Are you sure the memory isnt hiding somewhere? checking the pagefile use?

You've got me curious to see if it will adopt well on a hexacore.

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

Sorry to bump an old thread, but it's a fiver on Amazon, worth it? One of the reviews mentioned not getting a steam activation code with it? anyone else encounter this?

Easily worth a fiver but it's usually €2.50 during Steam sales and THQ were recently giving away copies for free on Facebook.

Don't know about the Steam code thing, but most of the games on Amazon are Steam activated.