Metro 2033

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20 Feb 2010, 04:22 PM
Yoshi

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Metro 2033

Given that it's now less than a month away, I am a little bit surprised that THQ's Metro 2033 doesn't have a thread. There's been some discussion in the PC thread, but this is a multiplatform (360 as well) release that looks promising.

It's based on a book by Dmitri Glukhovsky and set in Russia after a nuclear bomb has hit Moscow, making it somewhat like a Fallout game. But it seems more action-oriented and less of an RPG. There are more details in IGN's preview.

Making it especially attractive to me is that it is the first game with built in support for DirectX 11, 3D Vision, and PhysX, as well as Steamworks. Of course, nVidia is going to have to get a DirectX 11 card out before that'll actually be possible, but that didn't stop these developers from doing the right thing. Attached are some of the DirectX11 screens.
20 Feb 2010, 04:35 PM
Hot Like Wasabi

Maybe I missed a few games but I have just about written off THQ. Those screens look pretty solid however. I will have to find some videos to see how the gameplay is.
20 Feb 2010, 04:42 PM
Yoshi

THQ has made a solid comeback in the last little while. It took me a while to see past their previously tainted image too.
20 Feb 2010, 04:44 PM
AaronChance

It's made by some people who worked on the original STALKER. It's supposed to play similarly with more focus on the story.
20 Feb 2010, 04:45 PM
Frogacuda

Eastern Europe has been coming into its own lately, I must say. A Ukrainian friend of mine is really excited about this, so I've had an eye on it.
20 Feb 2010, 04:47 PM
Yoshi

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Originally Posted by AaronChance

It's made by some people who worked on the original STALKER. It's supposed to play similarly with more focus on the story.

Nice. I hadn't read that. That really jacks up my interest.
20 Feb 2010, 05:01 PM
epmode

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Eastern Europe has been coming into its own lately, I must say.

Agreed. I first noticed this after Stalker and The Witcher though I'm probably late to the party.
20 Feb 2010, 05:05 PM
raystorm

Game is looking great. I don't have a DX11 card so there goes the tessellation stuff. Since I have an ATI card there goes the PhysX and 3D Vision stuff too but I don't care about that.

I know it doesn't use the stalker engine but hopefully this one is more optimized than the stalker games. Happy to see the Eastern European devs continue to do well on the pc.
21 Feb 2010, 01:50 PM
Pineapple

The trailers make it look fantastic, although I have to assume they are running on a high end pc, so the 360 version will probably look at least a little worse. Still, looks pretty interesting. I've never heard a peep about this game until now.
22 Feb 2010, 07:35 PM
Joust Williams

I'm stoked for this

But yeah, this is one thing about PC gaming that irks me. ATi has the video and nVidia has the physics. Unless you want one of those physics dedicated cards, you can't have both because nVidia sucks ass for video (and they will continue to suck ass) and using PhysX emulation will make any PC shit its pants.
22 Feb 2010, 07:37 PM
Dyne

From what I've read the dedicated PhysX cards aren't worth their price anyway.
22 Feb 2010, 08:02 PM
raystorm

Nvidia won't have a DX11 card in the market for another couple of months, ATI has great stuff out there now (I'm using a Radeon 4870) and I don't care about PhysX since it doesn't work on ATI cards.

Great thing about the game using steamworks is that you can by the retail version on the cheap and just register the cd-key on steam. I have high hopes for this game now after looking at some previews.

edit: Nvidia's DX11 stuff, Geforce GTX 470/480, will be launched March 26.
23 Feb 2010, 03:41 AM
sleeve

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

THQ has made a solid comeback in the last little while. It took me a while to see past their previously tainted image too.

THQ also publishes the Dawn of War series and Company of Heroes, the best non-Blizzard RTS games out there.
23 Feb 2010, 02:16 PM
Pineapple

I agree, Company of Heroes was outstanding.
23 Feb 2010, 05:50 PM
Rumpy

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Originally Posted by Pineapple

I agree, Company of Heroes was outstanding.

Came out in 2005 and it still looks amazing.
23 Feb 2010, 06:34 PM
Pineapple

Agreed. Reading it's name made me go back and play it again, still so freakin good.
23 Feb 2010, 06:55 PM
Yoshi

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

Came out in 2005 and it still looks amazing.

Pineapple or the game?
24 Feb 2010, 01:31 PM
Rumpy

Both!
24 Feb 2010, 04:00 PM
Pineapple

I'm a good lookin noob confirmed!
17 Mar 2010, 08:04 PM
NeoZeedeater

Anyone buy this? Impressions wanted.
17 Mar 2010, 08:41 PM
Yoshi

I want it, but I am too swamped to buy anything new right now.
18 Mar 2010, 11:48 AM
icarusfall

Word. I'm super interested, but I need to finish Mass Effect 2, FF 13, Assassin's Creed 2, and Red Faction first.
18 Mar 2010, 10:02 PM
Tain

A few things:

- Extremely linear. Way closer to Half-Life than STALKER from what I've seen.
- Gorgeous. Runs great on my roommate's PC. Engine seems sweet.
- More friendly than STALKER, but there are definitely things to keep track of that set it apart from most modern hand-holding first person shooters.
- Pretty great spookin' audio, not unlike STALKER.
- The guns feel as shitty as you would expect them to IRL.

It's pretty interesting, so far, but I haven't had much time to play it.
19 Mar 2010, 09:34 AM
Yoshi

Damn this is getting harder to resist, despite my pile of shame.
23 Mar 2010, 02:49 AM
icarusfall

So somehow I ended up buying this and playing it all weekend. The story is a little disjointed, but it's passable so far. The thing this game has going for it in spades is atmosphere. If you ever read the book The Descent, then you have some idea of the claustrophobic thing they're going for here. It's also unrelentingly bleak. Everything is fucked up and dilapidated. You don't come across some wellspring of a town where there's a paradise. It's nothing but misery.
25 Mar 2010, 04:37 PM
icarusfall

Y'all niggas are missing out on a nice quirky game here. It's not as polished as MW2, but it's at least different.

I'm having a great time with it. I've logged about 8-9 hours and there's still more game.
25 Mar 2010, 08:48 PM
JefmcC

I was interested in it until I saw the gametrailers review. Seems like a grade C game, and there's too much grade A in the market right now.
25 Mar 2010, 08:50 PM
Yoshi

And yet you have Legendary and Darksiders as two of your last five played games.
25 Mar 2010, 09:05 PM
JefmcC

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

And yet you have Legendary and Darksiders as two of your last five played games.

What does that have to do with anything?

Darksiders was great, and I got it for $39. My only gripe with it is it could have looked a little better.

Legendary, however, is the biggest pile of shit. Not even worth the $5 I got it for.

Oh, and I played some Kameo co-op with my 5 year old neice. Guilty as charged. :rolleyes:
25 Mar 2010, 09:29 PM
Yoshi

Child abuse.
25 Mar 2010, 11:25 PM
Melf

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Originally Posted by JefmcC

Oh, and I played some Kameo co-op with my 5 year old neice. Guilty as charged. :rolleyes:

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8...9223026949.gif

Whad up wit Kameo? I liked that game, though my friend and I could never get the online co-op to connect.