POSTED 20/5/13


METRO: LAST LIGHT

Deep Silver
PS3 (also on Xbox 360, PC)

Last Light I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm, just another false alarm...

Last Light I felt real arms around me. No hope, no harm, just another false alar- oh fuck, no it isn’t! They’re icky spidercrabbyscorpionbuggly tentacles! Where’s that motherfucking gun?!

Ahem. Sorry. But we really hate spidercrabbyscorpionbugglies. They’re just one thing to deal with in this sequel to Metro 2033, based on the Dmitry Glukhovsky novel. But you likely knew that.

As returning post-apocalypse Muscovite protagonist Artyom you’ll also face innumerable tunnels, (being Metro-set and all), rodents of unusual size, flashbacks, mutants, shadowy figures, hallucinations, cobwebs, airborne demonic thingies, swamps, politics, a teddy bear, light globes, sleaze, Communists, a solitary remaining ‘Dark One’ and underground Nazis. We hate underground Nazis.

But you may have known all that. You likely also know that it’s set in 2034, which isn’t really that far away. We really should make the most of every day then. Yeah, OK, you knew that too.

Metro: Last Light is a comfortably linear, beefy weapon-infused, stealthy first-person shooter, although it’s anything but mindless. Think Dead Space when it could creep the fuck out of you, yet with a deeper, more intense, more human vein running through it dealing with past choices, fear, hope and several other emotional emotions.

Did you know that? You did?! Smartarse.

It’s competent graphically, but some sound design is truly remarkable. If having the shit scared out of you is, indeed, a feat of remarkability. Playing alone in an otherwise silent flat creeped us out significantly. But we’ll never admit to squealing. We won’t. Ha, you didn’t know that! Oh...

Look, if you’re so intelligentsiacal and know everything then nick off and challenge Wikipedia to a duel. Everybody else, play Metro: Last Light. It’s insanely хорошее.

The story is old, I know, but it goes on...

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