It is 2034, and the survivors of nuclear war still live in the tunnels beneath Moscow. Metro: Last Light Redux is the remastered edition of 4A Games’ story-driven shooter, rebuilt on a newer version of the 4A Engine and bundled with every piece of downloadable content the original game ever received. You return as Artyom, now a Ranger of the Spartan Order stationed at D6, sent back into the dark to find the last of the Dark Ones before the Metro tears itself apart.
A Civil War Beneath the Ruins
The station-cities of the Metro have never been united, and the discovery of D6, a pre-war military vault with enough weapons and supplies to decide the future, pushes them toward open conflict. The Red Line wants it, the Fourth Reich wants it, and the Rangers who hold it are badly outnumbered. Artyom’s journey runs through all of these factions, from the neon bazaar of Venice to the propaganda halls of the Reich, the Red Line’s prison camps and the flooded ruins of the Theater district. Along the way you meet Pavel, a charismatic Red Line officer whose friendship is never quite what it seems, the mystic Khan, and Anna, the Order’s best sniper, who does not think much of you at first.
Based on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s novels, Last Light is less about winning a war than about living inside one. Stations have their own music, arguments, drunks and children asking what the surface was like. Stopping to listen is often the most rewarding thing you can do.
Stealth, Scavenging and the Surface
Combat in the Metro rewards patience. Most human enemies can be avoided or taken down quietly: shoot out lights, throw a knife from the shadows, or slip past a patrol while they argue about rations. When it does come to gunfire, you fight with hand-built weapons like the Bastard, the pneumatic Tikhar and the Helsing crossbow, each customizable with scopes, silencers and stocks you find or buy. Military-grade ammunition is both your best bullets and your currency, so every high-caliber shot is a purchase you are choosing not to make.
The surface is a different kind of danger. A gas mask with a limited supply of filters stands between you and the poisoned air, and you will find yourself wiping blood and rain from the visor mid-fight while Watchmen circle and Demons sweep the sky. Swamps, ruined churches and a crashed airliner all have their own creatures and their own stories, if you have the filters to explore them.
What the Redux Edition Changes
The Redux release is more than a resolution bump. The campaign was rebuilt on the same engine revision as the Redux version of Metro 2033, bringing improved lighting, weather and destruction effects, and it runs at 60 frames per second. Fans of the original will notice the smaller improvements too.
- New melee animations and full-body player animations, so Artyom’s hands, legs and shadow are visible in the world instead of a disembodied weapon f
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