Metro 2033, a first-person shooter/survival horror hybrid based on — get this — the similarly titled novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, was released in North America yesterday. If Jim’s preview from last month didn’t get you hyped, 4A Games is giving it another shot with a celebratory launch trailer which, if nothing else, shows off the game’s lighting.
I haven’t been following Metro 2033 particularly closely, but I hope it’s a good game. I mean, obviously I don’t go out of my way to hope for bad games, but I’d like to see 4A succeed where so many other European developers have failed. Besides Ubisoft and, every once in a blue moon, Rare, European devs never seem to have the capital or the manpower to blow their Western counterparts away. I don’t know how it plays, but Metro 2033 might have enough atmosphere to pull it off.
And, hey!, it’s got giant monsters in it. Can’t go wrong with those.
In other Metro 2033 news, the PC version comes with Steamworks in tow, but it won’t be coming to the PlayStation 3 because software development ain’t cheap.
