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Quick Look: Metro 2033

Dave takes us on another dark and radioactive trip to the Eastern Bloc.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Mar. 19 2010

Cast: Dave, Jeff

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Metro 2033

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Edited By drumpsycho89

this game looks pretty fuking sweet!!! 
 
lets just hope this quick look is good cuz i want this game!! 
 
oh thats ashame looks pretty avrage!! :(

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Edited By LordAndrew

Brad is reviewing Final Fantasy XIII. Ryan reviewed God of War III. So this Quick Look has no impact on those reviews. You may recall a thing called the Game Developers Conference that happened last week. You may also be aware that Final Fantasy XIII is not a short game.
 
I think the game looks pretty cool. Weird running animation though.

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Edited By circaender

This game on pc looks soooo good.. DirectX 11 doesnt make a huge difference from 9 or 10 but still adds a bit...awesome so far.. 
 
Quick look should have been on pc..

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looks pretty bland
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Edited By ISouthPaw

STALKERS... Those crazy devils...
I laughed at that. 
Great QL!

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Edited By otzlowe

Despite the rather poor quick look, you basically just bought the game for me. 
 
I have a love for Eastern European games, myself.

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Edited By Griddler

Got this today, installing now, also.. Sweet! A QL of Metro 2033

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Edited By vendetta

Game looks pretty good, if not quirky.

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Edited By Phare

I beat this two days ago and I'm on my second playthrough. It was one hell of an awesome experience!
 
www.metro2033forums.com

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Edited By skilzlost
13:10 pristine bullets in ak :P  great quick had to watch again. 
 
 
 
 
 

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this looks cool, might need to check it out

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@ISouthPaw said:
" STALKERS... Those crazy devils... I laughed at that.  Great QL! "
lol yeah that part was pretty good.
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Edited By Hamst3r
I've started a Let's Play run of the PC verison of this game. I put the second video up tonight and have videos prepped for the next few days. There's some really awesome stuff a few hours into the game, particularly after the section played in the Quick Look. :D
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You can clearly see this is a PC game ported to console.
 
Pretty wonky compared to the pc version.

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Dude, you should totally have get the silanced pistol for that part and sneak through

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Edited By Griddler

Loving what I've played of this so far.

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Regardless of the criticisms, I find this interesting and different. I think I'm taking the plunge on it.  Also, wish they'd remake the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games for 360 so I could give them a try, but I figure that'll never happen.

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Edited By Jordan23

This game has an Fallout 3 look about it.

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@Jordan23: Oh look another one of these comments.
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And Destructoid just posted one of its "we aren't reviewing this game" reviews. I guess a lot of the troubles with this game are in following the story of the book too closely. Makes me think that it should either stay a book or be made a movie. I kind of want to play this game, but there are too many other games that would come first in terms of vying for my money right now.

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Edited By CraigAA1028

Thats the second game in about a month Dave has gotten me interested in. And they are  both Russian

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Edited By Food

all these games these guys say are russian are from the ukraine.
 
edit: nevermind, I spoke too soon

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A mate picked this up for the 360 and i was chatting with him in a party yesterday, you should have heard the swearing from him when he was getting killed, he says the game is quite hard.

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Edited By Colonel_Fury

This looks interesting at least. Probably a rental for me.
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Edited By Lydian_Sel

Aren't those exact same glowing mushrooms in Fallout 3?

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Wow this looks way worse than the PC version, even on my 'meh' PC.
 
I want a review for this from Dave.

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Edited By Scratch

I was hoping it would be the PC version. :S

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Edited By SirWolfgang

You can shoot/ use the money ammo, its more accurate and does more damage. And I fail you for getting that far into the game and not know thing, Hold down reload...

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Holy crap! Did Dave never think to light the lighter while he had the journal out? YOU CAN TOTALLY LIGHT UP THE JOURNAL WITH THE LIGHTER IF YOU'RE IN DARK PLACES, YOU MORON!!! Also, you can use the pristine bullets in some guns. They do more damage at the cost of you basically shooting your money away. They explain both of these facets in large text boxes that appear on the screen.

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Edited By Undeadpool

This actually looks pretty awesome...

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@cwdawg1224:  I was JUST about to mention that.  You hold your reload button when you have your machine gun out to change ammo types.
 
Personally, I loved the hell outta this game.
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The PC version of this game is 'considerably' better. 

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Edited By chrispti

This game is avaiable on XBLA through the THQ sale this week for 9.99 so I finally picked it up.

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i just sarted playing it in russian with englis subtitiles

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It's surprising that Dave is playing this on an Xbox 360 than a PC especially since the PC version is considerably better.

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Edited By MooseyMcMan

I bought this for $10 today. Haven't played it yet.

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Just got this game for free... watching quicklook over to see if I should even install it.

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Just got this game for free... watching quicklook over to see if I should even install it.

The game is fantastic so you absolutely should. Play it on the harder difficulties if you want to experience the game correctly.

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@godlyawesomeguy: Dude... I've said to hell with it and i've not played it... but I'm going to take your word for It and play it tonight. Thanks for the tip. Will do it on hard. Thanks man.

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I honestly had no idea they QLed this game, So happy they did and with Dave. We will miss him.

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Dave doesn't know that you CAN use the good bullets? and he reviewed this?

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About the words on the cover of the Metro 2033 book when you're hiding on the train thingy.. My Mum studied Russian Literature pretty heavily back in the day. The bottom word is the Russian equivalent of the name Peter, the word on the right on the row above is Vrochek (pronounced vroor-check aparrently.) She couldn't read the word on the left due to the angle and poor texture quality.

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Watching this in 2018! Boy, how bout that 360p video eh?

Just picked up the Metro Redux bundle for $6 and, oddly enough, I happen to be at this exact spot in my own game.