15 years connected from the merchandise of Metro 2033, I inactive deliberation with fondness and yearning of the Uboinik automatic shotgun. It’s a six enclosure cylindrical matter with mouthwatering reddish shells that dangle earlier your trigger digit similar pert, juicy plums. This is conscionable to accidental / I person changeable / the shells / that were successful / the shotgun / and which / you were astir apt / redeeming / for the mutant circular the corner. / Forgive maine / they were murderous / truthful sockety / and truthful round. Ahem.
Reloading the shotgun is an intricate process of 1) sliding 4 shells into the disposable chambers portion tossing the limb jauntily from manus to hand, and past 2) cocking it again to exposure and capable the remaining 2 chambers. You tin besides enclosure a azygous ammunition and cock the weapon, if you don’t person clip for a afloat reload, which means erstwhile you load different 4 shells and occurrence them, there’ll beryllium an bare enclosure to reckon with midway done the adjacent burst. That bare enclosure has gotten maine killed a twelve times, I think.
Somebody poured emotion into that reloading animation. Love and a definite spitefulness. This is Metro 2033, 4A Games’s spiritual successor to S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which takes spot successful the Moscow underground aft the nukes. Ammo is besides currency here, and the dingy rails teem with bandits and mutants. There is nary clip to get poetic astir shotguns. Today, 15th April, you tin acquisition each that emotion and spitefulness for free. The Redux variation is 100% disconnected connected GOG and Steam till time to people the game’s 15th birthday.
In the RPS reappraisal of the archetypal Metro 2033, Alec Meer (RPS successful peace) was wooed but not wowed, calling attraction to “a jarring disconnect betwixt the excellence of its quality and the adequacy of its action. "It’s a bully capable shooter, but it looks similar it should beryllium a phenomenal one,” helium went on. “In a cleanable world, there’ll beryllium a mod that fiddles with the balance, possibly ups the quality number and lowers the mutant count, and decidedly leaves a fewer much state masks lying around.”
The 2014-released Redux mentation adds a clump of modes and graphics features: arsenic Christopher Livingston summarised, “if you enjoyed Metro 2033, I powerfully fishy you'll similar it adjacent much connected the caller engine, particularly since the options for a grueling, hardcore acquisition are inactive determination contempt the revamped stealth and improved AI making things a small easier for you.”
The emblematic question to inquire of immoderate 4A Games quality portion is: which 4A Games, exactly? The workplace began beingness successful Ukraine successful 2006, but successful 2014, a information of the squad divided disconnected to recovered a caller workplace successful Malta. While they've collaborated connected Metro for years, the 2 studios are present wholly separate: 4A Games successful Ukraine person rebranded arsenic Reburn, and are present processing La Quimera, portion Metro remains successful the hands of the Malta studio, who are inactive owned by Embracer.