Metro Awakening

[h1]Pros[/h1] [list] [*]Level design (the second half throws varied threats at you, forcing new playstyles) [*]Character development [*]Engaging story (best experienced blind) [*]Spectator mode (lets others watch/stream your gameplay, very underrated feature) [*]Nails the Metro atmosphere [*]Great attention to detail (environmental storytelling, easter eggs, equipment reacting to paranormal events, subtitles shaking in chaotic scenes, a gasmask visor that fogs/wets and needs wiping, etc.) [*]Genuinely scary moments and thick atmosphere [*]Fair, clear visibility indicator on the watch [*]Creepy visuals that hit even harder in VR [/list] [h1]Cons[/h1] [list] [*]Weak immersion overall (less noticable once you adapt, but feels underwhelming) [list] [*]Objects have no weight (swinging heavy items like a feather looks absurd) [*]Misleading opening (the prologue's interactable-object-filled room oversells the game's actual interactivity [*]Can't interact with objects you'd expect to (baskets, safes, desk drawers, cupboards) - only specific boxes/crates and a few pickups like bottles/cans [*]No Russian voice acting in the Moscow metro (English only, with enemies speaking in a Polish accent, which feels off) [/list] [*]Rough, inconsistent graphics (good weapon/tunnel models clash with low-res textures (power boxes) and PS1-era distant character models; some textures flicker) [*]Poor performance stability, in chapter one and some later areas (I got drops from 90 to ~40 fps) [*]Occasionally overbearing soundtrack that ramps up tension then abruptly cuts to silence, undercutting some scenes that would land better with no music at all [*]Spiders - scary at first, quickly become a tedious nuisance [*]Stiff combat [list] [*]Enemies instantly know your exact position after the first shot, even out of sight [*]Stealth is often harder than just fighting head-on (except at the endgame) [*]Enemies snap-turn 90 degrees with no turning animation, looking unnatural [/list] [/list] [hr][/hr] [h1]My thoughts[/h1] While the game has some rough edges and visually leaves a lot to be desired, it's a solid VR title. The beginning gets tedious rather quickly, but it's the second half of the game that truly shows what it's capable of (more enemy types, more weapons, the plot unwinds its secrets). I had fun, would play it again.

This game is not worth the money, performance is pretty bad, game's good for maybe a single playthrough since you can't skip anything and the story feels very repetitive, the game assets and enemies are the same, just reused in different places. Spiders are incredibly annoying bullet sponges (but you can turn them off in the settings), for the mounted turrets you may think they actually overheat but the meter on them doesn't mean anything. On hardcore, stealth is mandatory because you won't find any ammo, mutants also have really bad animations, it's hard to aim at something that just changes directions immediately. I will complete all the achievements in the game since I'm a big fan of metro, but this game was a disappointment to say the least.

This game is so laggy although i love the metro series alot I genuinely cant play because of how bad the lag is

Jumped in, started with hard mode because I had just finished every metro game on ranger hardcore. Guns feel pathetically weak, but the game was absolutely amazing. I didn't read any books involving Khans back story and I'm happy to finally see it. For a VR title it ran buttery smoothe despite my lower end specs and last generation Quest. I played taking turns with a friend and we loved the atmosphere the tension the absolute danger you felt in some of the harder fights against the armored nosalaises or whatever they're called. Stealth was pleasant. Will likely play it again. Only minor bugs most of which would fix themselves if ignored for a moment or two, and if not restarting from last checkpoint always fixed. Well worth the sale price. Unlike other metro games I actually found myself having to use EVERYTHING to just survive as I got deeper in the game, finding myself out of ammo for most weapons and scrounging for my next handful of bullets constantly. Emergency grenades to stave off mutants. I could go on all night about how much fun I had with the game, especially passing the skill checks to keep everything back from my railcars with MG's. It all felt amazing. Can't recommend enough. Would have loved to see some surface / more moving parts in some human interactions, but still amazing.

Performance is terrible.

В целом неплохая игра, немного интерактивности, немного стелса, немного пострелушек, нормально хоррора и исследования локаций. Базонюхи утопили игру отрицательными отзывами из-за отсутствия русской озвучки, ну, да, нет ее, да звучит кринжово, где-то даже чисто на русском говорят, хотя, я так понимаю, ни одного русского актера озвучки в принципе не было и не звали из-за приколов (Ну сами знаете каких), но и без русской озвучки можно спокойно пройти и если не быть душным говнюком докапывающимся до каждой мелочи - кайфануть. Стандартная VR игра, хз почему от нее ждали каких-то прорывных геймплейных и сюжетных новшеств, да и сравнивать ее с плоскими играми тоже бред, VR игры в корне отличаются по своей сути. Из минусов могу назвать только то, что тюнинга стволов нет, максимум пистолет с глушителем и разные текстурки пушек, которые геймплейно не отличаются, прицельно по мушке стрелять супер неудобно, а еще более неудобно стрелять с двух рук потому что оружие постоянно прыгает при таком хвате. Мне очень понравилось бить носачей и кикимор по морде кулаками когда кончаются патроны на сложности "Хардкор", первый раз узнав, что так можно делать проорался от души, сразу в голове себе представил как Хан после бутылки водки идёт под музыку из дума уничтожать всю нечисть в метро голыми руками. Может это и не лучшая часть метро, но по крайней мере я не считаю ее такой плохой, как о ней пишут.

I always knew Metro would make a fantastic VR title. This game is rough in some ways, I feel like the environments weren't quite as interactive as I hoped, but that stops being a problem when I'm lost in the tension of the metro, manually charging my flashlight, making sure my weapons are all topped off, and preparing for the next mutant around the corner. Would've liked a chance to visit the surface and fight some Watchmen, but it's a solid experience. Btw, if your favorite gun in the Metro series is the Shambler, you'll be happy to know that it translates ABSOLUTELY perfectly into VR, legit feels like it was designed for this, reloading the thing mid fight while a Nosalis rushes you down is a feeling better than sex. Also if you like Khan as a character, this game does a really good job telling his backstory in my opinion. It retconned a couple details but for the most part, I think the changes that were made were for the better.

I think its worth maximium 10$ on a good day. I like dark but with quest 3 this game is just eye strain, and they regularly gimp your torch so now can't see much at all. The quest 3 does not handle super darkness well, it just looks like crap. There are boring and annoyingly long exposition "blah blah blahs" where you are locked in spot and must wait for it to be over. Dont play standing otherwise it will just piss you off, like it pissed me off. Metro: Awakening does shooting competently, and on a RARE occasion it leaves you alone to move, search and shoot and you can feel immersed, but it barely lasts long sadly. Too much time going to repetitious environments, and doing the 'spooky spooky thing' and it just gets tiring. Sometimes you go through the must same environments up to 3 times (cheap padding), and even worse you must return to the most annoying environments that you were SO relieved complete and have to do them ALL OVER AGAIN. That is when I said, nope... thats way too lazy and annoying. I think the force fed story and too trying too much to be pure ghostie horror ruined it for me. I don't really think it's a good game.