Metro: Last Light

THIS GAME THOUGH.....

Welcome to The Metro.

This is probably one of my most favourite games that of which I played so far this year and I have a lot of reasons to have enjoyed this game, which will now be detailed below.

You start as Artyom who can be a silent assassin or a incredibly loud gun slinger, the choice is pretty much yours right from the get go and that is what I loved about this game, you had a choice on how to kill your enemies, in fact you can pretty much go through about a quarter of the game without firing more than 100 bullets. The weaponry is standard procedure, same with the melee combat system yet the way you can alarm your enemies is always something that made me giggle with glee as I plunged my knife into some guys throught.

There are, of course, different ways to alert you opponents such as playing some music on an instrument or flicking a light on and off or even just playing the radio. In fact there are many ways that you can alert the enemy that you often forget that you are holding a gun.

But what makes Metro Last Light an incredible experience is the main story of trying to find the last Dark One which proves to be an incredible adventure of discover, secret organisations, Nazi's and of course...Strip clubs. The main story involves you finding the last of the Dark Ones which the Order believes will stop the upcoming war that is happening in the Metro and sadly for everyone else, Artyom is still haunted by the events of the previous game where you decided to nuke the Dark Ones who turned out were actually quite peace loving creatures until we decided to attack them because we were scared of them and thought that they were evil. But hey, what can you do.

Because of the previous game, high hopes were made for this game and luckily, they did not disappoint. In fact, you didn't even have to play the previous game because most of what happens in Metro 2033 is brought up in this game anyway in flashback sequences so explanation on the past game is mentioned anyway, which kind of makes for some rather unimportant cut scenes which were never really needed and kind of derail from what is important unless you are new to the Metro universe.

Time to be a sneaky bastard...

Sadly thought, this game falls short of a few things and the flashback sequences being one of them as sometimes the can really drag on, especially towards the end of the game where the just re use one cut scene that has already been shown and add something to it yet you can still feel that it was unwanted unless you are a lover of cut scenes then you are welcome to it.

Another can be the AI which can sometimes decide that it is perfect timing to walk right in front of you during an important monologue moment, therefore making the monologue drag on and on about one specific thing but this is petty nick picking as this game is pretty much one the most beautiful looking and possibly one the most engaging adventures that I have ever graced my eyes for a very long time and hopefully, it will never get old to fans of the series, new or old.

OVERALL  9/10

Overall, a very fantastic game, worthy of a playthrough and if you are a veteran, have a go at ranger mode if you can get it, honestly the most difficult thing that I have done but also feels more rewarding.