Metro 2033 Redux

I thought this would be like the last one that was more open world and it's not. It seems like it's just one battle scene after another and the plot isn't as well thought out. The fun part about the open world concept was that you had missions within the world and things you had to do and you could choose and go on side missions. You could also deviate from the mission and find entirely other areas of the map or cool buildings to hunt through that had nice weapons or upgrades. The weapon system on this seems really simple and you can't really mod your guns out that much. And there's no real use in changing weapons 'cause they're all kind of the same. It's very linear from one room to the next. and it's basically just a shooter where you watch long cutscenes in between every room where you shoot a bunch of stuff. Maybe I'm having the ordering wrong, but it doesn't seem as fun or as in-depth of a game as the first one, somehow. One last thing about the characters. None of your allies are interesting at all. The first one you had a team of people with you going through the different open worlds and And they would go from world to world on a train. So your whole crew went with you. And there was always a reason for you to fight for your crew and for the defense of the train, which also had your future wife on it. This one is just random people showing up and then acting like your best friend and then almost instantly dying. So there's no real reason to get interested in any of your allies or care about the plot line at all because It's literally just a bunch of random people. I don't know if they're even good guys or bad guys when you're hanging out with them or shooting around with them. Without a family arc, a love arc, or a romance arc, the plot really Is thin. Correction to some or all of this: This came out in 2014 and the one that I'm actually talking about that I liked came out in 2019. So the game just evolved. To something better later on. But that being said, all the things above are still true and it's Tedious and monotonous to play. I'd say skip this one and just go to the 2019 edition.