Metro: Last Light
Tags: paranormal

Plot synopsis:
Metro: Last Light takes place one year after the events of Metro 2033, following the ending of the original novel in which Artyom's missile strike against the Dark Ones — mysterious beings that seemingly threatened the survivors of a nuclear war living in the Moscow Metro — occurred. The Rangers, a neutral peacekeeping force that operates throughout the system, have since occupied the D6 military facility Artyom visited during the first game. This is a huge, and not fully explored pre-war bunker, and Artyom, now a Ranger himself, remains unsure whether killing the Dark Ones was the correct decision. Rumors of D6's discovery, and its great riches, have spread around the Metro; rival factions, such as the Communist Red Line and Nazi Fourth Reich, hope to seize the bunker and its contents.
Khan, a wandering mystic, informs Artyom and the Rangers that a single Dark One survived the missile strike. Khan believes that it is the key to humanity's future, and wants to communicate with it; Colonel Miller, the Ranger's leader, wants to eliminate it as a potential threat. Miller sends Artyom to the surface, accompanied by Miller's daughter Anna, the Rangers' best sniper, to kill the Dark One.
Artyom finds the Dark One, a child, but is captured by soldiers of the Fourth Reich. Pavel Morozov, a captured Red Line soldier, and Artyom escape through the Metro tunnels and across the devastated surface. When they reach the Red Line, however, Pavel is revealed to be a high-ranking officer; he detains Artyom to learn more about the Rangers and the Dark One. Artyom escapes and races Pavel's forces to locate the Dark One and Anna, who has been kidnapped by Lesnitsky, an ex-Ranger and Red Line spy. En route, he finds a contingent of Red Line forces massacring the inhabitants of a station, supposedly to contain a mysterious epidemic. It was the Red Line that introduced the virus to the station – weaponized Ebola acquired from the D6 vault by Lesnitsky. Artyom finds Anna and frees her but they are exposed to the virus and are quarantined after rescue. Afraid that she will die, Anna seduces Artyom.
After they test negative for the virus, Artyom again encounters Khan. They locate the young Dark One, and in a series of hallucinatory flashbacks, Artyom recalls that he was saved by a Dark One as a child; he was psychically linked to the Dark Ones, intended to form a bridge between their species and his. Artyom vows to make amends by protecting the little Dark One, and the two travel to Polis, the Metro's central area, where a peace conference regarding D6 between the Rangers, Red Line, the Reich, and neutral Hansa is taking place. Artyom defeats Lesnitsky and Pavel during the trip. Along the way, the little Dark One senses that there is a group of hibernating Dark Ones in D6. After arriving at Polis, the little Dark One uses his telepathic abilities to make the Red Line leader, Chairman Moskvin publicly confess that the peace conference is a diversion to enable General Korbut to seize D6. Artyom and the rest of the Rangers rush to the bunker to make a final stand against Korbut's army, but are incapacitated by an armored train ramming into their station. Red Line soldiers surround, and prepare to execute, Artyom and Miller.
The karma the player has acquired determines the ending. In the "bad" ending, Artyom destroys D6 to prevent Korbut from using the facility to wipe out the remnants of the other factions and possibly humanity, resulting in the deaths of himself, the surviving Rangers, and the Red Line forces. Later, Anna is shown telling their son of Artyom's bravery. In the "good" ending, Artyom prepares to destroy the bunker but is stopped by the little Dark One, who, along with the awakened Dark Ones, defeats Korbut's army. Artyom calls the little Dark One humanity's "last light of hope". In both endings, the young Dark One leaves with the surviving Dark Ones to find safety, while promising that they will come back in the future to help rebuild the world.

Review: A great game - 3D Vision ready.
For a start as the only 3D game reviewer here - this game is absolutely perfect in 3D as a matter of fact it is nVision ready.
If you are a seasoned FPS gamer when choosing a difficulty don't bother with medium just go straight to hardened, the Russians don't know what hard gameplay is!
That or their AI are just totally stupid Vrnet glubbisky nyet!
Very good story and brilliant graphics.
You might enjoy the sneaking aspect of this game - Stealth gets you a lot more enjoyment for some although run shoot kill is also a Blast (so to speak) - Being a Russian made game and done very well without a doubt there are subtle mechanics in gameplay and in the instructional way that a game is meant to be played that the Russians just haven't been able to grasp.
For instance there is an 'I' that appears occasionally that still has no valid purpose.
But overall this game is well produced and even though it borrows from many earlier FPS shooters it is a real time waster!
Waste as much time as you can just exploring the world because that is what the devs want you to do, explore - find ammo, notes, clues and even the (sometimes) obvious nod to all our old faves -Just look out for a Huge 'M' here and there - Rusky even promotes his game while you are being eaten by mutant spiders!
With a little more game testing this game could have been perfect but along with magnificent views and scenery came the inevitable glitches and bugs.
Don't worry too much about these as there were only a handful which seemed to appear about half-way through the game.
Sometimes a serious bug can make a game unplayable but not in case of MLL.
There were times when you could easily skip through some cut-scenes of which there are many,especially later in the game toward the end - it almost becomes an interactive movie but nevertheless a great experience.
Goodbye little one!.
Brilliant.
After playing and enjoying Metro 2033, I was looking forward to last light.
I was thinking to myself whether or not last light was going to live up to 2033.
After playing last light I was amazed by how well done the detail of the entire game was.
First of all they capture the emotions of characters perfectly and you really feel emotion for some of them such as the beggars also featured in 2033.
throughout playing the game you feel like you are learning a lot about human nature, emotion, and morality.
The game-play is really good as the enemies you face are not always easy especially if they are in groups giving you more of a challenge.
A must play in my opinion and out of all the games I have played this to me has the best story-line of them all.Really great game.10/10.
Wordless!.
Where do I begin from?
OK, to be honest this is my favorite video game.
Hands down, the best game ever(for me of course).
Graphics-8/10 Plot and storyline-9/10 Gameplay-10/10 Enjoyment-10/10 Overall- 10/10 The graphics are really really amazing.
And the interactivity is superb.
It makes you feel like you are actually in the game, and it never fails to entertain you.
The game never makes you feel bored, and each and every level is better than the last.
The plot itself is enough to entertain you and the voice acting and animations are really realistic.
It is scary sometimes to be honest when you are going in the dark but the first person experience just blued my mind.
I mean literary it did.
This is what makes this game so special from the other FPS games.
Other games - Shoot, hide, run reload, shoot, repeat.
But this my friends is one hell of a fun ride.
Every move changes the whole game and what's about to happen next.
There are more to it than shooting.Just pure awesomeness.
ENJOY!THE BEST GAME EVER!.
How a sequel should be, extraordinary narrative.
After replaying Metro 2033 Redux and now Last Light for the second time, now with more knowledge of the Metro universe as I've read the main trilogy and will soon read some of the spinoffs I've to say I played through the games like you are supposed to, stealthy and in a non lethal way.
It was fun and fresh to do it without going guns blazing.
I finally got the Redemption ending, the true ending and it was one amazing ride.The game is a worthy sequel to the first game, bringing an original story that feels longer and better, but keeping the same tone and feeling that made the first one superb.
Having characters like Khan and Miller returning from the previous game was great as they were two of my favorites and right from the beginning we get into the world once again and the missions and locations are in my opinion even better than the first game, except for the legendary library level, that's iconic.
With new characters like Pavel, Baby Dark One, Anna and much more.
Incredible additions.
The overall atmosphere and every single detail of the whole game made this game superb.
Remarkable experience only achievable in these games, one of a kind..
Not quite as authentic feeling as the original game, but still decent..
Graphics are great, but no better than the first game.
Even with the tunnel setting, it is more linear and scripted than I would have liked.
Some of the voice acting is mediocre, and there were a lot of recycled voices.This is not a bad port, but there is still significant consolitis: the usual annoying checkpoint save system, too low FOV, mouse acceleration, unskippable intro video, etc...
(some of these can be fixed in a config text file).
There is an increased emphasis on action and repetitive stealth, possibly at the expense of survival and exploration elements.
The AI is dumbed down with unrealistically poor sight in the dark, laughably poor hearing, and weak search behaviour.
This was probably done to make a stealth approach easy enough for the average console gamer.
You observe the AI's repeating patrol patterns, sneak past when an opening appears, then, when the path seems blocked, a scripted event or interactive item lets you sneak past again.
repeat, and so on...
repeat, and so on...
repeat, and so on...
While FarCry3 stealth was also unrealistic and repetitive, it was at least much more fluid and dynamic.
The DLC is of a lower quality, with more bugs and poorly balanced difficulty.Despite its flaws and the undeserved hype, this is still a decent game I can recommend quite easily..
Improvement Over The First Game.
I love this game.
The story, the characters, the gameplay, the atmosphere...
Not a lot to fault with this game.
Some of the characters skins (mainly the trousers with pink lines down the side) I didn't really like.
And the boots were not really very good looking.
Aside from this, GREAT GAME.
Improvement over Metro 2033 in almost every aspect.
I don't understand why anyone would not like this game.There were some people that faulted the game for its use of Female characters being sexualised.
I felt the sex scene with Artyom and Anna fit the story, considering the fact they were going to die.
The strip club was a little weird, and there were women in the Theater that could be considered 'sexualised'.I also prefer the style and layout of 2033, but Last Light contains better gameplay.Final Review: 9.4 / 10.
A story-driven sequel.
This review contains spoilers for Metro: Last Light.Metro Last Light is the sequel to 2010's Metro 2033.
The game picks up one year after, Artyom launched the missile strike onto the dark one city.
The spartan Rangers with the help of Artyom in Metro 2033 have discovered the Secret D6 base and are inhabiting it.
Khan suspects that there is a dark one left and conscripts Artyom in a mission to rescue it.The game is similar to the first game in the series and it is a single-player game focused on its story and world.
This second game continues exploring the metro and
focuses on Artyom role in the Spartan Rangers.
Similar to the first game the second has a redux version with improved graphics and artificial intelligence.The graphics of this game are beautiful.
I played the redux version and I enjoyed the increased fidelity in the graphics.
This is a beautiful game.
From The dark metro' tunnels to the harsh surface, the graphics accurately reflect the world these characters in habit, The 4A engine can render things beautifully however, there are never an overwhelming amount of enemies on the screen.The sound of this game is great.
There is not a drastic improvement over the first game but there is not a demand to be better.
The sound in this game is appropriate for the atmosphere and all of the voice actors, do a great job.
The Guns, in this game do sound slightly different as their sound is improved.The game-play is unchanged from the first game.
Artyom the player character, is matched against overwhelming numbers and must manage resources well.
The human enemies can kill Artyom in a few seconds.
The mutants also pose a threat with the new shrimp enemies.
The game intersperses the combat with st friendly stations that the player can explore and shop.The story like the first game is the main draw.
I enjoyed Metro: Last Light's story.
It is a good story of redemption that mostly hits the right notes.
The characters in this game are more fleshed out in the second game.I highly recommend Metro: Last Light.
This is a good single-player first person shooter.Four stars out of four stars.