Metro 2033 Redux
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic first-person gunfire against human factions and mutant creatures with blood spray; killing is emphasized but there is no dismemberment or lingering gore.
A dancer performs partially topless during the station peep-show scene.
Survivors smoke and drink alcohol such as vodka and homemade moonshine at the stations.
The setting is a grim post-nuclear world of dwindling survivors, radiation death, factional cruelty, and despair.
Survival-horror atmosphere of dark tunnels, lurking mutants, sudden attacks and eerie supernatural visions that create sustained dread.
The player passes a Reich (Nazi-styled faction) station where prisoners are abused and executions and torture are shown or implied.
A brothel/red-light corner exists within a station as part of the underground setting.
A red-light area in one station stages a suggestive striptease/peep-show performance the player can pause to watch.
English dialogue includes moderate profanity from soldiers and station-dwellers.
Combat centers on fighting off packs of fictional mutant creatures that attack the player.
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What it is
Metro 2033 Redux is a single-player first-person shooter with survival-horror elements set in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro two decades after a nuclear war. You play a young survivor who must travel through dark tunnels and toxic surface ruins, fighting human factions and mutant creatures with scavenged guns while managing scarce ammunition, a fragile gas mask and air filters. The game contains realistic gun violence with blood against people and monsters, tense horror sequences, alcohol and smoking, some swearing, and brief mature content at stations including a glimpse of nudity and a red-light corner. It also touches heavy subject matter such as mass death, a cruel authoritarian faction, and prisoner abuse.
How it's framed
The game frames its bleak world as a struggle for survival and, through hidden moral choices, quietly rewards compassion over ruthlessness; violence against enemies is presented as necessary self-defense rather than glorified, and its darkest content is used to underline the harshness of the post-apocalyptic setting.
Details
- Developer
- 4A Games
- Publisher
- Deep Silver
- Released
- Aug 25, 2014
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