Metro 2033

[Kensky]

Here're some new images of Metro 2033, an upcoming post-apocalyptic first-person shooter based on a Russian novel of the same name. Developed by the Ukrainian studio 4A Games, Metro 2033 features a community living in the Moscow subway some twenty years after a nuclear holocaust. And as you might expect, they are under siege by mutant horrors. Metro 2033 will be released for PC and Xbox 360 and is now due in 'early 2010.'

Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark
Age.

The year is 2033. An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside.
You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind.

Features:
* Metro 2033 is a gripping, atmospheric first person shooter experience powered by cutting edge technology to deliver incredible visuals.
* Witness the everyday horrors of a broken society living in constant fear.
* Brave the darkness of the tunnels, where mutants hunt their prey and ghostly spirits lurk.
* Explore the desolate city-surface, trusting your gas mask and rifle to protect you from a poisoned world and the creatures that roam there.
* Steel your nerve and prepare to face the terrors that await.

Ag.ru had an interview with Dmitry Glukhovski, he wrote the book that game is based upon. The interview is in Russian, so bellow I summarized the key game ralated points.

- Team started to do concept work on a game during 2003-2004, back when they still were working at GSC. Andrey Prokhorov contacted Dmitry, saying that they want to leave GSC to start an independent project and they need a book material to base game upon. At that time there was no printed book, just a draft of the first edition at free hosting site. Real work on a game started around 2006-2007, when a 4A Games were formed.

- Main quest is based on a book

- Game will be pretty much linear. But Dmitry wish it would have been as a good old Fallout 1 & 2 with a huge world to explore.

- English version won't be simply translation from Russian to English. THQ hired a Hollywood screenwriters and tasked them to adopt dialogs from English version of the book into a game.

- English voice acting will be done by American actors with Russian roots. Dmitry Glukhovski said: "There won't be idiotic pseudo-Russian accents by some random Polaks, instead it will be a natural residual accent like in people that lived a few years in USA. Sometimes I think, maybe it would have been best with no accent at all, just a pure American English, but it was a THQ decision as the story takes place in Moscow, they wanted to make it clear that all characters are Russians"

Second part of interview is up. This time with developers.

Here is the summary:

* Game is liner story-driven shooter.
* Some of the events from the book got cut as it was inappropriate to implement them in a shooter. Around 60% of the book's events are still in game.
* Players can't go postal in settlements and shoot everything that moves as there are woman and children living in there.
* There were plans to allow player to invade hostile subway stations and in case of danger all peaceful NPCs would simply run off to "cover" level inaccessible to the player, but that was hard to achieve and devs decided to cut that feature and polish other areas of the game instead.
* Unused AK47 bullets made before the war are used as money. Most of time player will be shooting from ad-hoc guns
* There are 10 types of weapons in game.
* Weapons can be upgraded in shops - optics, silencers and bayonet. Revolver has most of the upgrade options and ultimately could be upgraded into cavalry carbine(?!)
* There are 5 slots for weapons
o knife
o pistol
o pre-war weapon (AK47, maybe others )
o ad-hoc weapon ( shotguns, crossbows, air guns, etc.)
o grenades
* During the game player will visit ~10 subway stations.
* Levels are linear, player can only choose on how to complete them - rush thru them guns-blazing or a more stealth approach. For ultimate stealth experience players are encouraged to buy special gear and use silenced weapons. Surface levels offers a little bit more of freedom.
* Filters for the breathing mask needs to be changed from time to time and breathing mask could get damaged during combat.
* Game will have a Call of Duty alike health regen system for lesser wounds. Heavy wounds could only be treated with medkits.
* Devs mention vehicles in underground levels - draisines, motocycles, armored car, machine gun turret and Nazi tank(?!) although it's unclear whatever they are usable or only accesible during transition from subway station to another.
* There will be a lot of music in game and it will not be limited to dark ambient.
* While visiting stations player can rent a hooker and bet in rat races.
* Game will be around 10-12 hours long. Devs say they complete it in around 6 hours.
* No multiplayer.
* PS3 version is uncertain, decision lays in THQ's marketing department hands.
* PC version will feature nVidia PhysX effects and DirectX 10 support.
* Game feature fully dynamic lighting and all light sources can be destroyed in game, later especially useful during stealth approach.
* Player can't drag dead enemies, but alive enemies react to dead bodies.
* After being shown a life demonstation of the game a year ago, THQ were disappointed - game wasn't action oriented enough. There were no firefights in the first hour of the game as devs wanted to present the world lore to the player in peaceful manier. It took both sides another six months to reach compromise. As a result loading screens were added between levels explaining basic story to players whom prefer guns-blazing approach.

YouTube - Metro 2033: Gameplay Interview (HD)

YouTube - Metro 2033: Gameplay Interview (HD)

Metro 2033 Hands On | Eurogamer

YouTube - GamePro Metro 2033 Preview

YouTube - GamePro Metro 2033 Preview

[hector_cuper]

seamana f mult cu stalker

[Kensky]

.

[hector_cuper]

asta va fi adevaratul stalker

[Kensky]

Hell yeah, abia astept sa vad ce pot baietii care au stat la originea stalker

You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind.
WP: Who has the honor to speak with us? State your name, rank and occupation!
I'm David Langeliers, and I'm creative manager at THQ.
WP: Can you briefly tell us the plot behind the Metro 2033 novel?
DL: The plot behind the novel follows the story of a character named Artyom. The setup for the novel is that the surface of the Earth has been destroyed in 2013 in the city of Moscow. All the survivors retreated to the subway tunnels, or the people were already in the tunnels. They've turned these tunnels into small city-states, sort of a small nation in itself. They trade with each other, they fight with each other, there are agreements and there are breaks in agreements. Since the apocalypse, there are mutant creatures infesting these tunnels and the surface. There have been more increasing attacks on your home station, which causes some alarm. The player character Artyom is tasked with heading to Polis, one of the largest stations, to try and find support for his home station.
WP: Is the game based on trying to find out what caused the devastation, or is it more about trying to survive in the current environment?
DL: It's most definitely about survival. Most people in these metro stations are not worried about what originally caused it. They do have a need and a want to return to the surface, but it's all about survival at this point. They're just trying to get along, they're just trying to survive and keep humankind rolling as a race.
WP: There are the nuclear apocalypse and nuclear winter, but is everything with the mutants somewhat rooted in reality, or are there some fantasy elements to the story?
DL: There are certainly some fantasy elements. We do have these mutants that look somewhat like animals you've seen before but not quite. You're not quite sure what they may have rooted from, or if anything at all. Maybe they're something completely new. There are anomalies in the game that are unexplained. There are elements of fantasy, but due to the nuclear apocalypse, we can kind of take liberties. Nobody truly knows what would happen after an event like that.
WP: Let's talk about the game's currency, which is based on old weapons. We understand that you have a bonus to using them if you don't want to spend them.
DL: Yes, that's correct. Pre-apocalyptic weapons and ammo are in very high demand. The pre-apocalyptic rounds are the currency that everyone accepts in this world of Metro. With these rounds, the powder is more pure, the metal is more pure, and they're much more powerful than standard rounds. The player has the choice, if they find these, which are in very scarce amounts, to load them into their weapons and deal extra damage or save them until they get to the next station and purchase upgrades to their weapons and equipment.
WP: Obviously, parts of the game are set underground in the metro stations, but when you explore the surface, is this based on any real-world locations in Moscow, or is it more about creating a devastated landscape and having fun with it?
DL: Yeah, it's absolutely based on real-world locations. All of the stations within the metro are actual stations on a Moscow map. The player will travel to known locations in Moscow once he's on the surface. I can't let you know what those are right now, but I can tell you that there are real-world locations in the game.
WP: What gameplay features make the game stand out as a unique experience?
DL: Well, we do have some unique features, such as the gas mask, but more so, we're focusing on setting the story and atmosphere. You see with the visuals, we're trying to blow those out as much as possible, make this as cinematic as possible, focusing on the environments. The weapons are all these cobbled-together weapons that they've scrounged together parts and made in the metro tunnels. So while we don't have a unique feature, such as a gravity gun or a hook like that, we're really just trying to create a completely cohesive and immersive environment for the player to explore.
WP: There's a big focus in cobbling things together and picking things up. It seems like scavenging is a big part of the game. Can you play this as a run-and-gun, or do you need to take your time to hunt down resources?
DL: You can get by as a run-and-gun, although you will have much more success if you're scavenging. Besides searching every nook and cranny for med packs, ammo and weapons, you can also loot bodies that you've killed for these same types of items. That alone is usually enough to get you through to the next point, but you will have a much, much easier time if you spend a little bit of time looking around and searching everywhere.
WP: What about the developers themselves, 4A Games? Can you tell us a little bit about how they were founded and where the team came from?
DL: 4A Games is based in Kiev, Ukraine. Metro is their first title. They have a couple of key members from GSC Game World, when they were doing S.T.A.L.K.E.R., so while these two titles are unrelated and 4A Games is unrelated to GSC, there are a couple of key figures who are working now at 4A.
WP: Technology-wise, is the game using any existing, off-the-shelf engines like Unreal, or are they developing their own technology from scratch?
DL: This is an engine that 4A has put together completely from scratch, and it's called the 4A Engine.
WP: Metro 2033 will be available on the Xbox 360 and PC. Are we looking at DX10 or DX11 support for the PC version? Are there any other nifty graphical features?
DL: Yeah, that's correct. We're going to be on the 360 and PC. The PC version does utilize DX10 and PhysX. We're also looking at DX11 and working with nVidia on that.
WP: What about gameplay? Whenever something comes out on the PC and console, a lot of PC gamers complain that he game has been "console-fied." What are we looking at, control-wise, for the PC version versus console?
DL: I want to make it very clear that our PC SKU is our lead SKU. This is not a port. We're putting everything into the PC. The controls on the PC are going to be designed for PC gamers, exactly what they're used to.
WP: If you had to sum it up in two to three sentences, what really makes Metro 2033 a game that's worth playing?
DL: It's really just a very visceral, intense story of survival, and the player isn't just out there to save his home station, but eventually, the fate of mankind as a whole lies within his hands.
WP: Is there anything about the game that we haven't talked about that you wanted to add?
DL: We're looking at a release in early 2010, and we're really excited about it!

[oldsniper]

Pinning down an exact release date for us this afternoon, THQ and 4A Games have announced that their upcoming Survival-Horror FPS, Metro 2033, will begin shipping to stores across North America on March 16th and Europe on March 19th. They also reveal plans for a Limited Edition of the game, which will include an exclusive item (the automatic shotgun) and four art cards created by Russian painter Anton Grechko. Here's the official word:

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. January 28th, 2010 - THQ Inc. today announced that Metro 2033TM, the hotly anticipated first person shooter for Xbox 360® and PC, is scheduled to reach North American stores on March 16th, and European stores on March 19th 2010.

A Limited Edition will be available for both formats, including an exclusive in-game weapon – the formidable automatic shotgun – and four art cards by the Russian painter Anton Grechko, who was commissioned to create a range of artwork inspired by the universe of Metro 2033.

Standard and Limited Edition versions of Metro 2033 are available to pre-order now, with selected retailers offering free Metro 2033 themed Xbox LIVE® Avatar items with every pre-order.

[MaDm4n]

O combinatie intre Stalker si Fallout.
Abia astept sa il joc.

[Kensky]

Metro 2033 Video Game, Journey Into The Unknown Trailer HD | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

Metro 2033 Updated Hands-On - PC Previews at GameSpot
Exploring the Depths of Metro 2033 - PC Preview at IGN
On Rails: Hands-On With Metro 2033 | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Destructoid - Preview: Metro 2033
Metro 2033 Hands On | Xbox 360 | Eurogamer
Metro 2033 Preview from GameZone.com
Gaming Nexus - Metro 2033 - Preview - by Charles Husemann
Metro 2033 Hands-on Preview for Xbox 360 - VideoGamer.com

[rappy]

prima oara cand aud de numele asta
sper sa fie cel putin interesant

[Kensky]

Awesome

YouTube - Metro 2033 - Environments and Gameplay (HD 720p)

YouTube - Metro 2033 - Environments and Gameplay (HD 720p)

SS dx11

[oldsniper]

super tare , abia astept sa apara cred ca nu o sa dezamageasca.

[Kensky]

@optimum

Minimum:

* Dual core CPU (any Core 2 Duo or better will do)
* DirectX 9, Shader Model 3 compliant graphics cards (GeForce 8800, GeForce GT220 and above)
* 1GB RAM

Recommended:

* Any Quad Core or 3.0+ GHz Dual Core CPU
* DirectX 10 compliant graphics card (GeForce GTX 260 and above)
* 2GB RAM

Optimum:

* Core i7 CPU
* NVIDIA DirectX 11 compliant graphics card (GeForce GTX 480 and 470)
* As much RAM as possible (8GB+)
* Fast HDD or SSD

Enabling 3D Vision
Metro 2033 utilizes NVIDIA 3D Vision with compatible cards and hardware. To play in 3D you will require:

* NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 and above recommended
* A 120Hz (or above) monitor
* NVIDIA 3D Vision kit
* Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7

[oldsniper]

ce cerinte sunt asa ma nene.? , in recommended ma incadrez perfect dar in optimum

[advancecplro]

foarte tare si foarte interesant jocul......

[Kensky]

Sunt asa cerintele fiindca jocul a fost facut in colaborare strinsa cu Nvidia (PhysX shitty effects) si e testat pe PV cu Fermi.
Legat de rami, e posibil sa nu aiba loading screens si sa faca streaming in fundal.
Evident sunt si umflate pt marketing si publicitate noilor placi ce tre' sa iasa

[oldsniper]

pana la urma m-am interesat si eu de ce sunt cerintele asa mari , si ceea ca ai scris tu am gasit si eu..totusi cerintele mi se par foarte mari , nu toata lumea are Quad Core dar aminte i7 !

[Florin277]

Nici n-a iesit bine gtx400 series si ei deja cer placile astea+8gb ram
Vom vedea cerintele cand va iesi jocul..

[Kensky]

Metro 2033 Video Game, Black Station Developer Walkthrough Part I HD | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com
Metro 2033 Video Game, Black Station Developer Walkthrough Part II HD | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com
Metro 2033 Video Game, Black Station Developer Walkthrough Part III HD | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

[AnTiDoTtE]

:X super tare,stalker si fallout

[Kensky]

YouTube - Metro 2033 Exclusive Ghost of the Metro Trailer [HD]

YouTube - Metro 2033 Exclusive Ghost of the Metro Trailer [HD]