Tag archive: Metro 2033

We're more than a month past the close of E3 2011 and footage is still arriving online on an almost daily basis. On Tuesday you got to see the Kanye West-'Power'ed Forza MotorSport 4 trailer and today brings a new look at THQ's Metro: Last Light, the follow-up to the publisher's 2010 release, Metro 2033. The two-and-a-half-minute look is clearly marked as part one, meaning there should be more to come soon.… Read More

Some of the best games at E3 were behind closed doors. Metro: Last Light was one of them. The guys at developer 4A Games took us through several sections of the game, which had mine cart shootouts, Hitler-esque rallies, and some great environmental manipulation & destruction. As it did with Metro 2033, THQ has signed on to publish the sequel and seems to be letting 4A do its thing, which is refreshing. 4A hopes to successfully blend… Read More

In March of 2010, an interesting and unusual first-person shooter was released amongst a sea of big name competitors. Metro 2033 did not have a major advertising budget, it wasn’t part of an existing franchise, and it didn’t have an online multiplayer. And yet somehow the game managed to gain traction and build a small cult following, enough so that a sequel has been announced, and work on it is well underway. The original game was unique in a… Read More

OnLive is a cloud-based gaming service that delivers high-quality visuals and AAA experiences on any computer with a steady high-speed Internet connection, meaning that even your $100 netbook can be made to run a version of Batman: Arkham Asylum that looks and plays almost exactly like it would on an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. It's the rare “science as magic” tech promise that actually delivers, though OnLive is still… Read More

Game publisher THQ has announced that Metro 2033 has shipped to retailers for both the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows. Based on a novel by Dmitry Glukovsky, Metro 2033 follows a handful of humans who have surived an apocalyptic event by taking shelter in Moscow's famed subway system for a generation. But as if fighting each other for limited resources wasn't enough, the humans have to content with mutant monsters and other horrors on… Read More

Game publisher THQ has announced Metro 2033, a new first-person shooter game based on the Russian language novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky. Set in a world where an apocalyptic even has wiped out most of mankind, players are thrown into the ruins of Moscow's underground subway system, where a handful of remaining humans are struggling to survive against mutant and monsters on the surface. Naturally, it won't be a video… Read More