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E xs metro last light11/14/2023 ![]() The game opens up with players reprising their role as Artyom as he is sent to the surface in search of the only surviving Dark One. From there, you’ll have to navigate an incredibly hostile world ripe with not only horribly mutated monsters, but with the ever present threat of war from the Reich and the Reds as they look to wipe out the Polis.įans of Metro 2033 will be thrilled to know that the chilling atmosphere has been recreated damn near perfectly. During the few occurrences where you find yourself around “civilization,” you’ll overhear conversations discussing how bleak their life is as they cry into their mushroom soup. Picking through corpses in hopes that I could find an unused air filter for my gas mask on the surface while silently praying that the myriad of beasts didn’t see me never failed to keep me on the edge of my seat. And when I found myself crawling through abandoned metro tunnels, I felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness. Very few pieces of media convey their atmosphere this well, and it’s almost worth playing through the game just to experience this alone. To top it all off, the game knows exactly what type of atmosphere it’s created, and just how to use it against you. ![]() In Metro 2033, the claustrophobic tunnel system was by far the greatest danger, whereas in Last Light you can never really feel safe anywhere. The surface especially carries its own brand of terror as I felt completely exposed and vulnerable from the very moment I put boots on the soil until I was able to retreat underground again. While I saw remnants of society all around me, this world now belonged to the monstrosities that surrounded me and I was a foreigner.
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