Metro Redux (PS4)

Metro Redux is essentially an HD remaster package of two (PS3/360) games Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. These games are heavily influenced by the best selling novel Metro 2033 by russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. (I have yet to read it though plan on reading both it and it's sequel Metro 2034 after playing these great games.)The basic premise for the series is that in 2013 there was a nuclear war that essentially ended human civilisation as we know it. Russia has been turned into a land of the dead with radiation and mutant creatures having taken dominance. The sole human survivors were 40,000 people that fled into the deepest parts of Moscow's Metro carving out little settlements at each station, scavenging on the surface for anything of use to survive.You play the role of one such survivor called Artyom 20 years later in both games. The series plays as a mixture of survival horror and a flat out first person shooter. There is a great variety of weapons to choose from including standard revolvers, shotguns, and rifles to more scavenged built air powered rifles that fire balled bearings.Ammo for these guns will largely be found through exploration around the dilapidated buildings, corpses and railcars in the Metro. In the quiet moments between when in some of the metro station towns gas masks filters, ammo, guns can all be purchased as well as upgraded with different scopes and barrels.These quiet moments are some of the series best parts with lots of dialogue between settlers to listen to, describing their lives in the metro, their worries, their fears. It's a fascinating insight into this dystopian society that brings life to the otherwise dead world.The visuals to both games are fantastic with some beautiful lighting, and fantastic art and environment design. I understand they have both had a visual upgrade, especially 2033 though having never played either I can't give any details to the differences but the games look good regardless.The voice acting is also of high quality, especially the character Pavel in Last Light. There is one issue though in that a couple of the voice actors are used repeatedly as some of the background characters or soldiers which gets quite repetitive.Metro Redux is nothing if not value for money, two full games including all of Last Light's added mission pack downloadable content adding up to a good thirty hours of gameplay, more if you aim for the platinum trophies.To sum up this is a fantastic collection with interesting narrative, great atmosphere, fun weapons as well as some genuinely freaky moments. If you haven't played these games I recommend you do.+ Sorrowful dystopian atmosphere.+ Excellent visuals, art design.+ Compelling dialogue in the station towns.+ Great value for money.- Some overly used voice actors for many parts.

After a short time getting used to a few not so great control dynamics its a good game with a credible scifi plot. I thought the attacking monsters dynamics were a bit lame up close but again you get used to it. Played it through once and then tinkered achieving some trophies but the replay factor wasn't as high as I first hoped. Never the less, overall I wasn't disappointed.

I was a huge fan of Last Light on PS3. So when the two remastered games (+all DLC) came out I had per-ordered at £25.00, which was great value for money.I loved these games, the post apocalyptic setting, the creepy/supernatural atmosphere, everything.I'll quickly list positives/negatives:Positives:- Solid game-play, with no bugs (In my experience, and I've played each game multiple times)- Very realistic at higher difficulties, makes the game challenging, and awesome.- Hidden objects are not impossible to find. in some games (Tomb raider) I spend ages lookingfor crappy useless items. In Metro, if you look for it, you find it. and when you get it, it'sa key that opens a cache or something advantageous.- Actually runs 60 fps at 1080p, 2033 looks a lot better, and metro Last Light is nowless monochromatic, and has more detail/depth.- Great storyline (especially in Last Light) with two different endings.Negatives:- No way to adjust sensitivity on Metro 2033 (very minor, I got used to it quickly)- On ranger hardcore, no HUD at all, which was really cool, but meant that no prompts areshown for ANYTHING. you may want to familiarize yourself with the controlson an easier difficulty.- Back to the no HUD thing, quick-time event prompts don't show up either. This meant that in aquick-time sequence, you have to guess which button to press and when. (usually it was justsquare, so no biggie.)