Other than the weird glitch that was in the original game, when you have NVG's on, sometimes for some weird reason all your weapons and equipment bugs out and you can't interact with any of it. Apart from the odd (I mean very rare) graphical bug, I had no real problems with Last Light. I will agree there.īut Last Light, in my experience, didn't need patching. They are so punishing and challenging, making you scrounge for every scrap of ammunition, for every second of useable filter air, and it just fits with the whole world and the lore perfectly. Just don't expect it to be quite as challenging as the original even with survival mode.Ĭhallenge is one of the main draws for me in these games. With survival mode it makes it a worthy purchase whether you played the original or not. If redux 2033 didn't have the survival mode difficulty I would say it's not worth getting. The player having a shadow is extremely immersive, and moving in front of an NPC with a headlamp on and seeing your shadow move in front of you is awesome. The one thing the redux does better is the dynamic lighting, without lens flare. I think it's because 2033 wasn't built for this engine, so them porting it over to this engine didn't have quite the same impact they had hoped for, and maybe they didn't have the time and money to spend upgrading all the textures.īut you can see, the monsters look better, less washed out, it doesn't have massive over-use of lens flare, wall, floor and prop textures are sharper and everything just looks crisper and more realistic. There is a great comparison video on youtube where you can see. Yes, the differences between the 2033 original and redux are huge. Originally posted by wobbler:This is better than the original for one simple reason, in two words: survival mode.Īlthough in my opinion the graphical differences between Metro 2033 and Metro 2033 Redux are pretty core and notisable. Original is better, and looking at comparison video's you can clearly see the original still looks better as well. This is a far better game than the original in every way. I have started to run low a few times, and I have to say it's great to feel that pressure for a change. Since your health doesn't regenerate on survival mode, medpacks can't be ignored how they could in the original. Most exhilerating time I have had playing this game ever. But I just got through the red square end fight with half a clip of 7.72 ammo and most of my shotgun rounds gone, no medpacks left and with my health almost gone.
It's very punishing at times, and sometimes feels a bit unfair as the game wasn't originally designed for this difficulty you notice a couple of places where balance is a problem. Even if you played the original and thought it was maybe too easy (for a metro 2033 veteran the difficulty was the only big disappointment for me), then play through again in this version on survival difficulty, ranger hardcore as well if you can take it. But then graphical fidelity was never a thing this game had problems with, now was it? I haven't found anything new or different, and there are video's on youtube that show the graphical differences and they are pretty much non-existent. Not more than I found in the original, but other than difficulty and having all DLC bundled into the base game, it's the same game pretty much. I'm currently playing through survival ranger hardcore in this version, and this is definitely the game it should have been.
I finished the original version of this on ranger hardcore with no problems at all other than the odd accident like falling into the swamp because I wasn't paying attention. Survival is closer to the difficulty of the original metro 2033. Spartan is the basic difficulty as it was in the original. You have two versions when you start a new game: spartan and survival. This makes the game as difficult as it should have been to begin with.
This is better than the original for one simple reason, in two words: survival mode.