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Metro: Last Light’s pre-order incentive, the Ranger Mode DLC, may be free for those who drop cash early for the game, but retailers have forced Deep Silver to charge $5 for the DLC for non-pre-orders.

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Metro Last Light is one for the hardcore – its story is deep, dark and gruesome. VG247′s Sam Clay brings you a preview of what to expect from one of the generation’s biggest shooters.

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It’s Metro: Last Light producer Huw Beynon’s job to make bold claims about the 4A Games shooter – and to ensure it lives up to those claims – but these new screenshots certainly seem to back him up.

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Metro: Last Light hasn’t lost much in the way of development time since Deep Silver picked it up during the THQ auction, according to the game’s studio representative.

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In our biggest gameplay reveal yet, VG247 got a hands-off preview of 4A Games’ upcoming shooter Metro: Last Light. Feast your eyes on what we saw below.

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Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games isn’t bringing its shooter to Wii U any time soon, if at all, following claims from the studio’s chief technical officer Oles Shishkovtsov that the project was canned due to Nintendo’s “Horrible, slow CPU.” THQ’s Huw Beynon has spoken out to debunk that claim in a new interview.

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Metro: Last Light probably isn’t coming to Wii U, following some rather damning comments regarding the hardware from a developer at 4A Games. Publisher THQ has stepped in to shed light on why the negative comments were made.

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THQ won’t make the same mistake twice, Metro franchise communications head Huw Beynon has said; the publisher is now taking 4A Games’ post-apocalyptic series very seriously.

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Make no diddies about it: THQ is looking to shit your pants off with Metro: Last Light, global comms head Huw Beynon has told VG247.

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Amid the blinking neons and high-pitched squeals of Tokyo Game Show 2011, one game gave off a darker glow. Scrape back the action-packed veneer to see the soul of Metro: Last Light.

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Although 4A Games is committed to delivering a super glossy experience on consoles, Metro: Last Light will shine a little brighter on fancy-pants gaming rigs.

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Metro: Last Light will equal its precursor’s impressive visual performance, but cater to low-end PCs.

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More Metro? This is a horrifying Russian apocalypse dream come true. But is Last Light on the right track? We saw the game and spoke with THQ to find out.

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THQ’s head of communications Huw Beynon has told VG247 that Metro 2033 will be setting a graphical standard on 360 that hasn’t been “done before”.

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THQ’s warned off seeing Metro 2033 as a straight “horror” title today, saying the game pulls on a variety of genres to tell its story.

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Producer Huw Beynon has said that despite Metro 2033 not having any multiplayer, consumers will have “several reasons” to replay the game based on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s novel.

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While the post-apocalyptic setting is hardly new for games, few titles are based on a wildly successful near-future novel focused on sci-fi and Russian political satire in the Moscow underground. Very few, in fact.

Metro 2033 is unique in that respect. Built closely on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s book of the same name, it’s the first project from Ukrainian 4A Games, a splinter company formed from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. dev GSC. The FPS looks mint, to be blunt, throwing online everything firmly out of its irradiated window, dropping the HUD and sticking to plot only.

We caught up with Dmitry and producer Huw Beynon in London last week to find out more on the novel’s relationship to the game, why THQ decided to not go with a PS3 version and how Glukhovsky plans to smash international writing boundaries with an ambitious personal book publishing operation. Sterling stuff.

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