Fri, Mar 12, 2010 | 14:00 GMT
First online Metro 2033 score is 9/10
4A Game’s novel-based shooter has taken a high score from its first online review, with Xbox World 360 (or CVG, or whatever) giving it 9/10.
The piece does point out, however, that the “shooting” is the game’s Achilles heel.
“The chief issue, though, is… the shooting – and it’s this black mark which stops Metro 2033 from challenging the absolute best FPS titles on the 360,” says the review.
Don’t despair, though. It’s “a problem you soon learn to forgive, and by the time you’re a few levels in, the iffy fighting hardly harms the other features at all.”
Phew. The game’s out next Friday.
We interviewed Dmitry Glukhovsky recently, the author of the hugely successful Russian novel, to get some insight into the post-apocalyptic actioner: get that here.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, Journalism, PC, Shooter, THQ, Xbox 360
Tags: metro 2033, review
11 comments
#1
mington
12/03/10, 2:17 pm
YES!! praise jebus
if you like pina coladas….
#2
Erthazus
12/03/10, 2:18 pm
Who cares about xbox 360 magazine. Bring on EDGE and PC reviews!
#3
reask
12/03/10, 2:26 pm
Sounds good to me.
#4
G1GAHURTZ
12/03/10, 2:26 pm
What’s this?
It’s a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER and the ‘only’ problem is the ‘shooting’, you say…
Riiiiiiiiiight.
#5
reask
12/03/10, 2:29 pm
It seems to be more half life meets fallout 3 Giga.
2 good games imo.
#6
pleasant_cabbage
12/03/10, 2:29 pm
Yeah. That’s a bit of a worry in a shooter. Looked like typical bland factory/sewer fps by numbers to me on first viewing. Could I have been wrong? Me? Wrong?
/lies down
#7
mington
12/03/10, 2:35 pm
there’s Nazis in it \o/ so far so good, i’ll read on…
#8
mington
12/03/10, 2:40 pm
whats wrong with the shooting you ask…
“the shooting isn’t all that great. As we feared last issue, the guns do feel underpowered and enemies sometimes absorb a bullet or two without even flinching. If you’re after a great blaster then Metro 2033 may not be for you. Nor is it designed to be. Bioshock isn’t a great blaster either, but that certainly hasn’t held it back.”
#9
G1GAHURTZ
12/03/10, 2:41 pm
Yeah, it looks interesting, reask.
#10
endgame
12/03/10, 2:53 pm
what Giga said.
#11
Panipal2005
12/03/10, 3:42 pm
Just as long as there’s other ways to approach things a la Bioshock.