The gas mask uses filters that run out over time forcing players to either move very quickly or scavenge for extra filters. When forced to the surface, players are confronted with a larger and more fierce contingent of mutant enemies as well as the added tension of wearing a gas mask. These journeys are difficult because of confrontations with warring parties and mutants and the fact that you are armed with meager equipment and low quality ammunition. The two games are mostly made up of treks between small settlements in the tunnels which sometimes require brief trips to the surface. Unlike other post-apocalyptic games like Fallout or Borderlands there is little levity in the world of the Metro games, and rightly so-the world is falling to pieces and the few people left have resorted to warring over the few remaining resources. The two games are based on Dimitry Clukhovsky’s novel Metro 2033, which is set in the subway tunnels of post-apocalyptic Moscow in the year 2033, twenty years after nuclear war decimated the world and left the surface of Moscow uninhabitable.

For those who have never played either game, Redux is the best way to experience them. Kiev-based 4-A games recently remastered both games and released them as Metro Redux. In a slew of unexceptional and formulaic post-apocalyptic first person shooters, Metro 2033 and its sequel, Metro: Last Light, shine as a stunning examples of incredibly well realized worlds.

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