Metro 2033 may be about post-apocalyptic Russia, but if you thought that would make it the next Fallout 3 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R, you'd be dead wrong. Unlike those games, Metro 2033 is not going the open-world route, giving us something a bit more linear in the name of cohesive storytelling.
"It’s a story-driven, atmospheric, first-person shooter. It’s not an open world game," THQ EP Dean Sharpe tells Inside Xbox. "The goal was to make a very believable, atmospheric, story-driven game, and I think that we did that."
I love a good open-world first-person game, but it's cool that THQ isn't jumping on the bandwagon if it feels the game is better served with a more linear structure. Metro 2033 seems quite promising, so I hope to see much more of it soon.
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3:40 PM on 12.16.2009 | 
(It sounds like I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not. I just REALLY like the apocalypse.)
Off-topic, but has anyone seen The Road yet? It wasn't quite the book, but I really enjoyed it. Talk about despair.
I'm going to have to use that one more often.
I haven't seen it yet, but I'm planning to this weekend. How was it different from the book?
They took some liberties with the flashbacks to flesh out the characters a bit more, but other than that (and a few, minor, cut scenes) the movie followed the story and feel of the book pretty closely.
I definitely think the story itself is better suited to book form, but the cinematography and acting were top-notch. (In my opinion, Robert Duvall deserves a best-supporting Oscar nod for his portrayal of the old man, regardless of how short his on-screen time was.)
It's certainly worth seeing for fans of the book and of gloomy movies in general.
Far Cry 2 suffered by going completely open. It just doesn't work for a pure shooter in my opinion.
from this set - http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/metro-2033/screenshots/g-20081219161519817058/pic-FDCE2C54-FDD3-486D-BB98-84086030AC4C#autoPlay
very nice art - and I seriously love when studios show their art with full size HD screens. Wish they were the norm here on my beloved Destructoid.