To answer that question about what the monsters are and how they are caused- it’s because of the radiation, lot of the monsters in the game used to be squids, or dogs and cats and the like. But the amount of radiation has completely changed them into beasts. The war is between nations, no aliens or the like. It’s actually a really good story of how humanity never changes, even with only a few thousand people in the metro humanity will still find reasons to fight one another.
In the books, the author also hints that some (if not all) of the monsters were perhaps already there, inhabiting catacombs from times past, and that the bombs freed them. I theory that I like the most.
@@r.daneel.90 I remember something like that in the game considering the spiders, although I sadly haven’t read the books. Love that line though, very terrifying to think about
What are the dark ones exactly then? They look like alien humanoids that are advance enough to communicate telepathically and also read the memories of their entire race but they never really explain it unless they where always there but the only surviving ones where hibernating in D6 and they also don’t really explain where they went off too
Not that good. Atmosphere and physics yes. And so, just a “corridor” shooter. Exodus is a different matter, of course there are some things to complain about, but overall it’s a masterpiece
Metro Series was made by a Ukraine based studio based on novels written by a young Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. The missiles you see were launched by foreign nations during a war on Russia which caused massive radiation causing animials like dogs cats and birds to mutate into monstrosities. People are forced to live in Metro stations due to such radiations and even there they formed factions like the Reds, Reichs, and so on and they would continue to fight each for political power. This is one of my favorite story based games ever and I highly recommend playing it through for the sake of the story.
One of my favourite things, unironically, about the Metro games is that you have a designated button for the sole purpose of wiping your gasmask screen
Rockets in beginning is basically what if Cold War gone Nuclear. Yes, mutants comes from exposure to radiation. 10:42 iirc that's a bear. This game series very atmospheric and music is so good.
The Mutants you see are the actual animals that survived the war and mutated over time. In the game itself we play as a young man that was brought down into the Metros as a baby and have to fight our way through the Metro Stations, the city and different facilitys. It is not your standard shooter like CoD, it is a little harder and gives you a hard time if you just rush in (like in CoD).
Really didn't like that change. The world feels much older than 20 years and the books give this feeling of a fractured history. But the main character was alway different so I guess it's not the same story.
Metro rocks! The only complaint I really have witht he series is that they made your player character, Artyom, a silent protag... for the most part. He's the narrator for that one trailer, he's also very philosophical. Metro has a book series as well. Wherin he's more or less the main character. So it feels strange to me that they made him a silent character in the games mostly. He talks between zones and when you load in, he keeps a journal and narrates entries during major loading screens. He's also (I think) the baby from the first trailer? That one's alot like Artyom's origin, but just a little off.
METRO is something specially.. from a different time of gaming and the first Metro 2033 game had an impact on me, specially when you get the "good ending"...
Most of the mutants shown were animals. The Nosalis, the ones in the tunnels, are a mutation of some species of rat or molerat, the flying Demons were bats and that one you called King Kong was a mutant bear. There are some human mutants, like the big hulking ones in the last trailer that weee reffered to as Librarians.
I'm not convinced the Demons were bats, actually. Let's just say there's evidence that they were bats, other evidence that they were _tigers_ (or at least housecats), other evidence that they were reptiles, and evidence that they were genetic experiments like the Dark Ones and the biomass. So their origins are deliberately vague.
11:05 The mobius trailer is one of my favorite video game trailers ever. It's so simple with no real animation but it's so effective at showing exactly what kind of world this is.
Correct me if I remember this wrong, but the guy responsible for this trailer did it in his free time just as a cool video. When the top dogs from the 4A games saw it they immediately promoted him some sort of lead. So yeah, awesome trailer.
The “Genesis” and “Morbius” trailers capture the themes and overall feel of these games best. The world of Metro is brutal, dark, and horrifying, but also has its moments of beauty, love, and triumph.
So that first trailer, the live action one. That is actually part of a series of live action shorts, I think it was called Enter the Metro. Each short focused on one of the major 'characters' from the trailer, showing how they adapted to life in the Metro.
Never seen the trailers for Metro before. If I hadn't already played the games, I'd definitely buy them now. That one where the camera is just panning around the freeze-frame...
The Metro Series is one of the best 1st person shooters and I’ve ever played, it has a lot of heart and deep meanings and I highly recommend anyone to give a try also the books by Dmitry Glukhovsky as well.
Sooooo glad you guys are checking out this franchise. I really hope you get around to playing it because it's so damn good Also the creatures are mutated wildlife from radiation exposure. The nukes were a result of human vs human conflict but neither the novels or the games say who fired first or why
The 1st game is a translation almost 1:1 from the books (also great). And the author, Dmitri Glukhovski hints that some (if not all) of the monsters were perhaps already there, inhabiting catacombs from times past, and that the bombs freed them. The 2nd and 3rd game deviate from the book saga (whose follow another route, with other protagonists), but the story is still co-written by Dmitri.
Amazing game series that is based off a rather interesting and good book series. I would love and I’m sure I’m not alone. But would love to see both your reactions to playing the games.
An interesting point in Metro is that even though the protagonist - Artyom - was born before the Nukes fell, and was raised within the tunnels of the Metro, in those few decades most of the Metro has forgotten thier old histories, or misremember them. Many of the Children and young teenagers in the Metro have never seen the sun or the sky, and some believe the stories spun by thier elderly parents are little more than fairytales and that the Metro is all there is. This loss of history extends to the larger groups in the Metro as well. The Reich for example does not recall who founded the original Nazi’s or any of the events before the Nukes - remembering only that they once held great power and fought a grand war which they believe they won, and that the “losers” launched the Nukes to deny them ultimate victory.
There's actually several trailers that help explain the setting by the developer's TH-cam channel. They go by the name of "Metro: Last Light - Ranger Survival Guide" or something like that. I highly recommend them if you notice this comment.
The Metro games are based on a series of books, called Metro 2033, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, written by Dmitri Gloukhovski. Metro Last Light is the second game in the series, and follows the events of the second book. Each book takes place in the year that is written in the title. Basically, in 2013, a nuclear war took place between the US and Russia. As you can imagine, the war didn't last long, and ended with the destruction of most of the world. Or at least, it's assumed so, since we only get the perspective of the survivors of Moscow, who took refuge in the metro tunnels. During the 20 years between the war and the first book/game, the surviving animals on the surface evolved rapidly to endure the radiations, transforming them into horrible monstrosities. The character that you play, Artyom, was just a little kid when the bombs fell, and longs to find a place where humans can thrive again, away from the metro tunnels that are now engaged in bloody wars, basically what the world was before the nuclear war but at a much lower scale. Regarding gameplay, the game is not as action-filled as the trailer shows. It's a balance between a FPS and a survival-horror game. You have phases in which you fight monsters, phases in which you fight humans (there's a hidden karma system that determines the ending you get, and it's highly dependent on whether you kill humans in gun fights, or use stealth and knock them unconscious), and exploration phases where you move through desolate places. Exploration phases are, ironically, the scariest parts of the game, because you witness things that aren't quite natural. Overall, the game series is amazing, on every aspect. Story-telling, world building, characters, ambience, gameplay and soundtrack, it's a bit sad that it's not as popular as other titles, because everything creates a unique feel that you can't find in any other game.
The thing I love most about these games, is their humanity. The metro is alive and the people are a lot more real than what I've seen in games. There's a whole other story that these trailers didn't even touch on, so I won't spoil, but amongst the human stories is something else that drives our main character. It's very dark, yes, but the goal is to get humanity back into the light.
Despite the broken future that could've been the Metro. Despite how dystopian, when i hear those few guitar chords, i feel right at home, in the metro. I hate how deeply humanity always feels the need to kill itself. I played killing as few people as possible, despite the fact that usually im all for violence in games. Humanity needs to do better, that's what i believe is the moral of the story.
It's post WW3 the mutations are kind of a blend in the books at some points its implied that there was already monsters lurking in the world and they just came crawling out when mankind lost dominion over the earth then theres a lot in the games and books that say it was a blend of biological weapons and nuclear fallout that made them but theres not really anything that specifically states what caused the mutations like Fallouts FEV viruse.
The Metro games are some of the most immersive shooters I've ever played. Love those games. Metro Exodus is my personal favorite though all 3 are great.
I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I think you guys should check out Twisted Metal: Black's Character Storylines and Endings by Piecemeal. It definitely fits the spooky theme of October.
im only at half way through the first book, but i played all the games, and i don't think the origin of the creatures is ever revealed, tho at the same time there is no mention of alien origin or the likes, also they are extremely widespread and various, wich at least makes it unlikely to be created willingly, and they often resemble animals (or even human to some extent), so the classic "mutation through radiation" is largely the cause, even if a bit pseudo siencey
The Metro series is a harsh one, a dark one, and, to many, fairly nihilistic. It's a world torn apart by radiation, mutation, war and strife, etc. Even America didn't escape it. And yet, there are moments that remind you of the good in humanity, the kindness and self-sacrifice in protecting others. It's beautiful in a way. If you ever choose to, I can't recommend the games enough. I even like Exodus for the upgrades to the Shambler and the storytelling. It just hit nicely with what the surface has been going through. I'm also considering getting the books, including the omnibus of fan stories and Outpost, which is Dmitri Glukhovsky bringing the Metro into America
I’m just gonna say this right now if y’all end up doing a game stream of metro redux, the last light, prepare for giant mutated spiders that hide in the dark
На самом деле эта игра вполне неплохая, я ее проходил много раз, я рекомендовал бы посмотреть повествование о чем вообще речь здесь, сюжет там и вправду хороший, хоть и со своими дырами. Там и смешных моментов в ходе сюжета бывает полно, диалоги некоторые одни чего стоят, хватает забавности, но и страшных там тоже полно. Hello from Russia. Смотрел вас на протяжении двух лет, да вы и из России подписчика взяли)
In fact, Metro as a game is pretty good, but that's how the story personally I liked 50-50. There's a lot to dig into from a technical and plot point of view, but the post-apocalypse atmosphere of the game is fantastic. The developers are doing well in this regard. But in a story game, personally, I would like to grab onto something or someone for which I will go through the plot. Here, my views coincide with the main character, because he wants to go for his loved ones at the VDNKH station (if anything, this is a Moscow metro station). But along the way we are introduced to two groups with opposing views and... drum roll. They are trying to level them for us. So damn, I immediately have a dissonance because of this. Well, as an example, can we say that black and white are the same thing? Well, this is nonsense!😂 In general, the game is a good game, I recommend it. I didn't play the third part, I only know 1 and 2. Somehow. In general, the game is about the post-apocalypse after a nuclear war. And yes, there are no aliens here, sort of.😄
Metro is basically humanity struggle of surviving after WW3 nuclear devastation, Artyom has a immunity to the Blacks/Dark ones, in this game you learn that at young age he was adopted by them when he "broke" his home station restrictions and opened a blast door at the garden, his young mind at time adapted to the Dark ones communication ability of telepathy, and the way the say "God died" in certain areas of the metro tunnel system and on surface there are trapped souls of the fallen be it ghost trains or ghost soldiers still defending long fallen barricades to reliving last moments of a airliner and all passanger as it falls from sky after Nuke fall and the EMP effect destroys planes systems, the Metro consists of 4 factions the Reds, Nazis, Polis and Sparta Order Reds and Nazis are the biggest of the faction both regressing back to WW2 Ideologies, Polis is the Metro systems police for and Council guards and Sparta Order is the monster hunters and the smallest of all factions consisting of around 300 hand picked soldiers, The D6 silo is headquarters of the Sparta Order and is holds lost technology of dangerous uses, reason behind Reds and Nazis looking for it, Artyom found D6 along with Sparta Order when trying to find a way to combat the Dark ones Artyoms second goal was to uncover origin of radio signals he detected in first game when calling in attack on dark ones Metro exodus his him and anna discovering the truth about signals origin and the results of their discovery is the train journey
I think Last Light is the second game in the series and you already saw the third game trailers? Moving in reverse. Last Light roughly follows the novels whereas in the first game you have the option to diverge and have a "good ending", one where you don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Thankfully, the canon ending is not all bad and the situation is not as bleak as the "bad ending" first appears once you make it into Last Light.
Hey, I hope you’re doing well. I’m looking forward to seeing your reactions to the S19 Apex Legends trailers, but I do strongly recommend waiting for just one more week so you can include the battle pass trailer in your reactions.
When I first discovered this game And then play through my impressions were that this is just Russian version of fallout. It takes place in a different year but essentially Russia just becomes fallout wasteland.
Nobody can tell if these are just mutated creatures... or did they always exists? Deep down under the Metro of Moscow and when our time..the era of mankind..was over..they came back.
There is the rare phenomenon of "the book is always better than the movie that goes with it" I have written essays about this in school and university and with proper research, I can say even if you don't have high standards: This phenomenon is not true, just like that of bad sequels, but for that you have to make an effort. JAWS (biased) The Green Mile. (3 hours movie and you don't get bored for a minute of it). Shining (Very rare case of book and movie are equal) Here we have the rare case of "book into game". And the story of Artjom the protagonist is deeply philosophical and shows the nonsense and horror of war and a possible scenario for the future. But the books are quite terrible..although they tell the same story, but in the game at least you have good characters and action in between.... The books make you depressed. The setting is great. I really like the games, they have such brilliant atmosphere. But my god, the book's execution. I don't know who the most blame should go to - the writer, the translator, or the editor - or all three. But the prose is dire. It doesn't flow one bit. Clunky, clumsy, unnatural, dry, obtuse, dense, over-wordy, extremely repetitive, and rife with errors that an editor should have caught. Hell, even the metro station maps have errors on them - so good luck following the journey! The paragraphing, my god, the paragraphing. I know that sounds like a silly thing to complain about, but it seriously knocked off at the very least 1 star from the rating , and was the biggest reason this book took me so long to read. I have books from the 18th and 19th century with better paragraphing than this. There is no excuse for a 21st century novel. Great thick walls of text, with plenty of opportunities for a paragraph break missed, while others seemingly randomly chosen. More than once I encountered three-page walls of text without a single break, for no good reason. It's not atmospheric, it's not intense, it's just incredibly dull and hard to parse. I ended up using a bookmark on the page to quicker line-read the book, something I never normally need to do.
Moebius, that 1 that is a single moment and the camrea takes you through the scene. Love that 1. Just how it seems like the man was saving himself form all the horrible stuff going on in the sation, even abandoning his kid. But at the end you see the rangers comming in (which i guess you need context for that but the rangers are kind of the super skilled monster killing good guys of the series) and it ends with the relization that the man ran out of ammo and is trying to save the station. Great story telling. Honestly do not like how they just flat out tell you it was a nuke that caused all this. In the books it kind of makes you work for it. It's far enough in the future (after the bombs) that everyone has a theory about whats going on and you have to peice it together. Kind of turns the game into another Fallout when it lost that mystery.
have you played the walking dead telltale series? I would love to watch you playing that game. Love ur videos, I always watch them while i am having lunch at work
TLDR: the metro is filled with nazis and communists and mutated monsters with few places for safety. The surface is covered in radiation and the truly scary mutants. Also hope you guys play lies of P on livestream it’s really good
I have played all of the three games. I have also read all of the three books. The books especially are something else entirely. And in a good way. Very atmospheric and gloomy.
Fun fact: the story is written by a Russian, the game is made by Ukranians. Also try the games, they are awesome, though the order is 2033->Last Light->Exodus, so you started with the ending :) in your reactions
In all honesty. I played last light to make a critique review for a college course and it sadly fell flat hard. Even on the most optimized pc the game was constantly stuttering and nearly unplayable. Apparently the first game is actually really good but my interest was destroyed hard after playing its sequel.
The Metro series has always struggled with PC optimization, they're fine on console but you usually have to wait a few years before they run well on PC
Well,Biblically speaking, Armageddon is the last battle between good and evil,it is either at second coming of Jesus Christ when He with all of His saints and angels fights against satan and his army and obviously wins although,since God says vengeance is mine,there is a theory that Jesus will Himself all alone come to fight satan and his army. I know this channel isn't a place to post such things but as a Christian,i must say that absolutely all the signs of Jesus's very soon return have all converged this year and i am not talking about second coming but when He snatches up and resurrects all the believers and they meet Him in the clouds and they all go to Heaven and then judgment starts and if this happens this year as i believe it will then second coming would be in 2030. I don't mean to scare anybody but it is my duty as a watchman to warn of what's coming. That aside,i did play this video game before and i loved it. The story is indeed beautiful and touching.
To answer that question about what the monsters are and how they are caused- it’s because of the radiation, lot of the monsters in the game used to be squids, or dogs and cats and the like. But the amount of radiation has completely changed them into beasts.
The war is between nations, no aliens or the like. It’s actually a really good story of how humanity never changes, even with only a few thousand people in the metro humanity will still find reasons to fight one another.
I know this line is from Fallout, but it just fits. "War never changes"
In the books, the author also hints that some (if not all) of the monsters were perhaps already there, inhabiting catacombs from times past, and that the bombs freed them. I theory that I like the most.
@@r.daneel.90 I remember something like that in the game considering the spiders, although I sadly haven’t read the books. Love that line though, very terrifying to think about
What are the dark ones exactly then? They look like alien humanoids that are advance enough to communicate telepathically and also read the memories of their entire race but they never really explain it unless they where always there but the only surviving ones where hibernating in D6 and they also don’t really explain where they went off too
@@Trap221 Long story short: They where originaly made by the military but was seen as failiures due to being to pasive
The Metro games are phenomenal. I played through Last Light countless times.
@@kenbocole1460only problem with Hardest difficult is QTS. I died so many times thinking it was just a scripted cutscene 😅
Not only the games are phenomenal but books too!
last light was just really fun gameplay and atmosphere wise its my most replayed as well plus frankie helped a lot
That's how Moscow is they always treat others like cattle they don't give a s***about anyone they don't care
Not that good. Atmosphere and physics yes. And so, just a “corridor” shooter. Exodus is a different matter, of course there are some things to complain about, but overall it’s a masterpiece
0:57 the voice coming through the headphones says "The missiles are on the way. God save us all." or something along those lines.
Thanks!
Metro Series was made by a Ukraine based studio based on novels written by a young Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. The missiles you see were launched by foreign nations during a war on Russia which caused massive radiation causing animials like dogs cats and birds to mutate into monstrosities. People are forced to live in Metro stations due to such radiations and even there they formed factions like the Reds, Reichs, and so on and they would continue to fight each for political power.
This is one of my favorite story based games ever and I highly recommend playing it through for the sake of the story.
One of my favourite things, unironically, about the Metro games is that you have a designated button for the sole purpose of wiping your gasmask screen
The entire Metro Story is breathtaking, I highly recommend a playthrough to experience the world!
Rockets in beginning is basically what if Cold War gone Nuclear. Yes, mutants comes from exposure to radiation. 10:42 iirc that's a bear. This game series very atmospheric and music is so good.
The Mutants you see are the actual animals that survived the war and mutated over time. In the game itself we play as a young man that was brought down into the Metros as a baby and have to fight our way through the Metro Stations, the city and different facilitys. It is not your standard shooter like CoD, it is a little harder and gives you a hard time if you just rush in (like in CoD).
Really didn't like that change. The world feels much older than 20 years and the books give this feeling of a fractured history. But the main character was alway different so I guess it's not the same story.
“War, war never changes” Seriously though, the Metro series is incredible. On the first book and it’s wild.
The writing. You can hear how good the writing is in every word.
Metro rocks! The only complaint I really have witht he series is that they made your player character, Artyom, a silent protag... for the most part. He's the narrator for that one trailer, he's also very philosophical. Metro has a book series as well. Wherin he's more or less the main character. So it feels strange to me that they made him a silent character in the games mostly. He talks between zones and when you load in, he keeps a journal and narrates entries during major loading screens. He's also (I think) the baby from the first trailer? That one's alot like Artyom's origin, but just a little off.
METRO is something specially.. from a different time of gaming and the first Metro 2033 game had an impact on me, specially when you get the "good ending"...
So pumped that 4a & deep silver are makin a 4th one rightnow
Didn’t know that 😯 lots of love for this franchise in our community but we haven’t done a deep dive in it 😅
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames cant wait 2 see those deep dives
Best trilogy game I have ever played in my life. 10/10 just too good. And very short too.
Most of the mutants shown were animals. The Nosalis, the ones in the tunnels, are a mutation of some species of rat or molerat, the flying Demons were bats and that one you called King Kong was a mutant bear. There are some human mutants, like the big hulking ones in the last trailer that weee reffered to as Librarians.
I'm not convinced the Demons were bats, actually. Let's just say there's evidence that they were bats, other evidence that they were _tigers_ (or at least housecats), other evidence that they were reptiles, and evidence that they were genetic experiments like the Dark Ones and the biomass. So their origins are deliberately vague.
Absolutely loved the metro series! I plan to read the books as well!
11:05 The mobius trailer is one of my favorite video game trailers ever. It's so simple with no real animation but it's so effective at showing exactly what kind of world this is.
No voice or music, well just a little bit of music to give you a feeling about it... slow pace, so good ! My favorite too... give me chills everytime.
The most amazing part of the mobius trailer is that it was made by one guy, on his time off at home.
Correct me if I remember this wrong, but the guy responsible for this trailer did it in his free time just as a cool video. When the top dogs from the 4A games saw it they immediately promoted him some sort of lead. So yeah, awesome trailer.
The “Genesis” and “Morbius” trailers capture the themes and overall feel of these games best. The world of Metro is brutal, dark, and horrifying, but also has its moments of beauty, love, and triumph.
So that first trailer, the live action one. That is actually part of a series of live action shorts, I think it was called Enter the Metro. Each short focused on one of the major 'characters' from the trailer, showing how they adapted to life in the Metro.
metro series is an extremely dark world but very fascinating if you like horror that give chills
Never seen the trailers for Metro before. If I hadn't already played the games, I'd definitely buy them now. That one where the camera is just panning around the freeze-frame...
The Metro Series is one of the best 1st person shooters and I’ve ever played, it has a lot of heart and deep meanings and I highly recommend anyone to give a try also the books by Dmitry Glukhovsky as well.
Sooooo glad you guys are checking out this franchise. I really hope you get around to playing it because it's so damn good
Also the creatures are mutated wildlife from radiation exposure. The nukes were a result of human vs human conflict but neither the novels or the games say who fired first or why
The metro games are some of the most immersive first person shooters out there. Love all 3 games
The 1st game is a translation almost 1:1 from the books (also great). And the author, Dmitri Glukhovski hints that some (if not all) of the monsters were perhaps already there, inhabiting catacombs from times past, and that the bombs freed them.
The 2nd and 3rd game deviate from the book saga (whose follow another route, with other protagonists), but the story is still co-written by Dmitri.
Amazing game series that is based off a rather interesting and good book series. I would love and I’m sure I’m not alone. But would love to see both your reactions to playing the games.
The METRO Games are fantastic, definitely check out the other ones as well
An interesting point in Metro is that even though the protagonist - Artyom - was born before the Nukes fell, and was raised within the tunnels of the Metro, in those few decades most of the Metro has forgotten thier old histories, or misremember them.
Many of the Children and young teenagers in the Metro have never seen the sun or the sky, and some believe the stories spun by thier elderly parents are little more than fairytales and that the Metro is all there is.
This loss of history extends to the larger groups in the Metro as well.
The Reich for example does not recall who founded the original Nazi’s or any of the events before the Nukes - remembering only that they once held great power and fought a grand war which they believe they won, and that the “losers” launched the Nukes to deny them ultimate victory.
One of the best game series I have ever played. Mutated. Based on a Novel. The other trailers will make u cry. It's an amazing game and the story.
A big part of Metro is how the monstrous animals are really just the background of the hostile environment.
There's actually several trailers that help explain the setting by the developer's TH-cam channel.
They go by the name of "Metro: Last Light - Ranger Survival Guide" or something like that. I highly recommend them if you notice this comment.
I played it when i was 6 it was my first computar game and i loved it i hope that you finish watching all the trailers
Oh wow you must’ve been terrified at 6 😨😱
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames nah it was fun but the part with library still gives me the spooks
The Metro games weaponizes anxiety...you'll be panic firing at every crack and crevice you see
Metro 1 is good
Metro 2 (last light) is way better
Metro 3 (Exodus) is a love letter to the player and a fan service to the T.
Y’all should check out the Beautiful Light announcement trailer that came out last month, it’s looking to be really good.
So the baby in the first trailer is Artyom ? Good thing he was saved then lol
DAMMIT! I MISSED THE UPLOAD! And I'm usually good at catching you guys new videos😭
The Metro games are based on a series of books, called Metro 2033, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, written by Dmitri Gloukhovski. Metro Last Light is the second game in the series, and follows the events of the second book. Each book takes place in the year that is written in the title. Basically, in 2013, a nuclear war took place between the US and Russia. As you can imagine, the war didn't last long, and ended with the destruction of most of the world. Or at least, it's assumed so, since we only get the perspective of the survivors of Moscow, who took refuge in the metro tunnels. During the 20 years between the war and the first book/game, the surviving animals on the surface evolved rapidly to endure the radiations, transforming them into horrible monstrosities.
The character that you play, Artyom, was just a little kid when the bombs fell, and longs to find a place where humans can thrive again, away from the metro tunnels that are now engaged in bloody wars, basically what the world was before the nuclear war but at a much lower scale.
Regarding gameplay, the game is not as action-filled as the trailer shows. It's a balance between a FPS and a survival-horror game. You have phases in which you fight monsters, phases in which you fight humans (there's a hidden karma system that determines the ending you get, and it's highly dependent on whether you kill humans in gun fights, or use stealth and knock them unconscious), and exploration phases where you move through desolate places. Exploration phases are, ironically, the scariest parts of the game, because you witness things that aren't quite natural.
Overall, the game series is amazing, on every aspect. Story-telling, world building, characters, ambience, gameplay and soundtrack, it's a bit sad that it's not as popular as other titles, because everything creates a unique feel that you can't find in any other game.
The thing I love most about these games, is their humanity. The metro is alive and the people are a lot more real than what I've seen in games. There's a whole other story that these trailers didn't even touch on, so I won't spoil, but amongst the human stories is something else that drives our main character. It's very dark, yes, but the goal is to get humanity back into the light.
Thers also ets in this game seris/ books known as the darkones
And this is just a Artyon journey
Despite the broken future that could've been the Metro. Despite how dystopian, when i hear those few guitar chords, i feel right at home, in the metro. I hate how deeply humanity always feels the need to kill itself. I played killing as few people as possible, despite the fact that usually im all for violence in games. Humanity needs to do better, that's what i believe is the moral of the story.
It's post WW3 the mutations are kind of a blend in the books at some points its implied that there was already monsters lurking in the world and they just came crawling out when mankind lost dominion over the earth then theres a lot in the games and books that say it was a blend of biological weapons and nuclear fallout that made them but theres not really anything that specifically states what caused the mutations like Fallouts FEV viruse.
The Metro games are some of the most immersive shooters I've ever played. Love those games. Metro Exodus is my personal favorite though all 3 are great.
Metro is absolutely a horror game/novel series. Most of that horror is human derived.
Metro games are based on books! And i highly recommend them!
I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I think you guys should check out Twisted Metal: Black's Character Storylines and Endings by Piecemeal. It definitely fits the spooky theme of October.
im only at half way through the first book, but i played all the games, and i don't think the origin of the creatures is ever revealed, tho at the same time there is no mention of alien origin or the likes, also they are extremely widespread and various, wich at least makes it unlikely to be created willingly, and they often resemble animals (or even human to some extent), so the classic "mutation through radiation" is largely the cause, even if a bit pseudo siencey
The Metro series is a harsh one, a dark one, and, to many, fairly nihilistic. It's a world torn apart by radiation, mutation, war and strife, etc. Even America didn't escape it.
And yet, there are moments that remind you of the good in humanity, the kindness and self-sacrifice in protecting others. It's beautiful in a way.
If you ever choose to, I can't recommend the games enough. I even like Exodus for the upgrades to the Shambler and the storytelling. It just hit nicely with what the surface has been going through.
I'm also considering getting the books, including the omnibus of fan stories and Outpost, which is Dmitri Glukhovsky bringing the Metro into America
I’m just gonna say this right now if y’all end up doing a game stream of metro redux, the last light, prepare for giant mutated spiders that hide in the dark
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You should check out the Squadron 42 trailers, i think it will blow your mind away :D
Hope you do more PlatinumWow's lore videos in the future!
Nuclear radiation mutation was happened after the third and last world war in human history - in the game.
I hope you do a gameplay of this franchise.
На самом деле эта игра вполне неплохая, я ее проходил много раз, я рекомендовал бы посмотреть повествование о чем вообще речь здесь, сюжет там и вправду хороший, хоть и со своими дырами. Там и смешных моментов в ходе сюжета бывает полно, диалоги некоторые одни чего стоят, хватает забавности, но и страшных там тоже полно. Hello from Russia. Смотрел вас на протяжении двух лет, да вы и из России подписчика взяли)
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And ets would also bring ther animals 2 our planet
In fact, Metro as a game is pretty good, but that's how the story personally I liked 50-50. There's a lot to dig into from a technical and plot point of view, but the post-apocalypse atmosphere of the game is fantastic. The developers are doing well in this regard. But in a story game, personally, I would like to grab onto something or someone for which I will go through the plot. Here, my views coincide with the main character, because he wants to go for his loved ones at the VDNKH station (if anything, this is a Moscow metro station). But along the way we are introduced to two groups with opposing views and... drum roll. They are trying to level them for us. So damn, I immediately have a dissonance because of this. Well, as an example, can we say that black and white are the same thing? Well, this is nonsense!😂
In general, the game is a good game, I recommend it. I didn't play the third part, I only know 1 and 2. Somehow. In general, the game is about the post-apocalypse after a nuclear war. And yes, there are no aliens here, sort of.😄
nice, 10 years later xD
Metro is basically humanity struggle of surviving after WW3 nuclear devastation, Artyom has a immunity to the Blacks/Dark ones, in this game you learn that at young age he was adopted by them when he "broke" his home station restrictions and opened a blast door at the garden, his young mind at time adapted to the Dark ones communication ability of telepathy, and the way the say "God died" in certain areas of the metro tunnel system and on surface there are trapped souls of the fallen be it ghost trains or ghost soldiers still defending long fallen barricades to reliving last moments of a airliner and all passanger as it falls from sky after Nuke fall and the EMP effect destroys planes systems, the Metro consists of 4 factions the Reds, Nazis, Polis and Sparta Order
Reds and Nazis are the biggest of the faction both regressing back to WW2 Ideologies, Polis is the Metro systems police for and Council guards and Sparta Order is the monster hunters and the smallest of all factions consisting of around 300 hand picked soldiers,
The D6 silo is headquarters of the Sparta Order and is holds lost technology of dangerous uses, reason behind Reds and Nazis looking for it, Artyom found D6 along with Sparta Order when trying to find a way to combat the Dark ones
Artyoms second goal was to uncover origin of radio signals he detected in first game when calling in attack on dark ones
Metro exodus his him and anna discovering the truth about signals origin and the results of their discovery is the train journey
I think Last Light is the second game in the series and you already saw the third game trailers? Moving in reverse. Last Light roughly follows the novels whereas in the first game you have the option to diverge and have a "good ending", one where you don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Thankfully, the canon ending is not all bad and the situation is not as bleak as the "bad ending" first appears once you make it into Last Light.
Hey, I hope you’re doing well. I’m looking forward to seeing your reactions to the S19 Apex Legends trailers, but I do strongly recommend waiting for just one more week so you can include the battle pass trailer in your reactions.
When I first discovered this game And then play through my impressions were that this is just Russian version of fallout. It takes place in a different year but essentially Russia just becomes fallout wasteland.
Can for sure see why you thought that 🙂
Nobody can tell if these are just mutated creatures... or did they always exists? Deep down under the Metro of Moscow and when our time..the era of mankind..was over..they came back.
There is the rare phenomenon of "the book is always better than the movie that goes with it"
I have written essays about this in school and university and with proper research, I can say even if you don't have high standards: This phenomenon is not true, just like that of bad sequels, but for that you have to make an effort.
JAWS (biased)
The Green Mile. (3 hours movie and you don't get bored for a minute of it).
Shining (Very rare case of book and movie are equal)
Here we have the rare case of "book into game".
And the story of Artjom the protagonist is deeply philosophical and shows the nonsense and horror of war and a possible scenario for the future.
But the books are quite terrible..although they tell the same story, but in the game at least you have good characters and action in between....
The books make you depressed.
The setting is great. I really like the games, they have such brilliant atmosphere. But my god, the book's execution. I don't know who the most blame should go to - the writer, the translator, or the editor - or all three. But the prose is dire. It doesn't flow one bit. Clunky, clumsy, unnatural, dry, obtuse, dense, over-wordy, extremely repetitive, and rife with errors that an editor should have caught. Hell, even the metro station maps have errors on them - so good luck following the journey!
The paragraphing, my god, the paragraphing. I know that sounds like a silly thing to complain about, but it seriously knocked off at the very least 1 star from the rating , and was the biggest reason this book took me so long to read. I have books from the 18th and 19th century with better paragraphing than this. There is no excuse for a 21st century novel. Great thick walls of text, with plenty of opportunities for a paragraph break missed, while others seemingly randomly chosen. More than once I encountered three-page walls of text without a single break, for no good reason. It's not atmospheric, it's not intense, it's just incredibly dull and hard to parse. I ended up using a bookmark on the page to quicker line-read the book, something I never normally need to do.
Moebius, that 1 that is a single moment and the camrea takes you through the scene. Love that 1. Just how it seems like the man was saving himself form all the horrible stuff going on in the sation, even abandoning his kid. But at the end you see the rangers comming in (which i guess you need context for that but the rangers are kind of the super skilled monster killing good guys of the series) and it ends with the relization that the man ran out of ammo and is trying to save the station. Great story telling.
Honestly do not like how they just flat out tell you it was a nuke that caused all this. In the books it kind of makes you work for it. It's far enough in the future (after the bombs) that everyone has a theory about whats going on and you have to peice it together. Kind of turns the game into another Fallout when it lost that mystery.
aw wtf. you guys missed the Machinegun trailer
have you played the walking dead telltale series? I would love to watch you playing that game. Love ur videos, I always watch them while i am having lunch at work
yeah, well after watching this trailer now I think you should play Metro first lol, it looks awesome
TLDR: the metro is filled with nazis and communists and mutated monsters with few places for safety. The surface is covered in radiation and the truly scary mutants.
Also hope you guys play lies of P on livestream it’s really good
I have played all of the three games. I have also read all of the three books. The books especially are something else entirely. And in a good way. Very atmospheric and gloomy.
I personally prefer 2033 I think but last light is still phenomenal, terrifying, and immersive on a level unmatched by any other game
Bravo.
Hello from Kazakhstan, can you see an overview of our country please?
Fun fact: the story is written by a Russian, the game is made by Ukranians. Also try the games, they are awesome, though the order is 2033->Last Light->Exodus, so you started with the ending :) in your reactions
Jurassic Park The Game cutscenes please
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Regarded as the MOST REALISTIC game for Nuked countries
In all honesty. I played last light to make a critique review for a college course and it sadly fell flat hard. Even on the most optimized pc the game was constantly stuttering and nearly unplayable. Apparently the first game is actually really good but my interest was destroyed hard after playing its sequel.
The Metro series has always struggled with PC optimization, they're fine on console but you usually have to wait a few years before they run well on PC
@deltahalo241 yeah it's just too bad I did it when it came out cause I just lost so much interest in trying anything aside from looking at lore shit.
You should to play this game 🤌🏻
Ahhh Fallout but what happened In Russia
Damn, I’m 2nd
The evil within trailers reaction
It pisses me of that you didn't get the obvious story plots like it is so clear what is going on.
это больше Сербию напоминает а не Россию когда войска НАТО бомбили Белград в 1999 году.
Well,Biblically speaking, Armageddon is the last battle between good and evil,it is either at second coming of Jesus Christ when He with all of His saints and angels fights against satan and his army and obviously wins although,since God says vengeance is mine,there is a theory that Jesus will Himself all alone come to fight satan and his army. I know this channel isn't a place to post such things but as a Christian,i must say that absolutely all the signs of Jesus's very soon return have all converged this year and i am not talking about second coming but when He snatches up and resurrects all the believers and they meet Him in the clouds and they all go to Heaven and then judgment starts and if this happens this year as i believe it will then second coming would be in 2030.
I don't mean to scare anybody but it is my duty as a watchman to warn of what's coming.
That aside,i did play this video game before and i loved it. The story is indeed beautiful and touching.
I can tell when sombody is investest in something.. and Bethany here.. was truly inveted.