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Platform Win, 360, PS3 Publisher Deep Silver Developer 4A Games Release Date 05/14/2013

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Metro: Last Light review: red scare

By Philip Kollar on May 13, 2013 05.13.13

There's more character and nuance in Metro: Last Light Metro: Last Light expands the world of post-apocalyptic Moscow introduced in Metro 2033. Humans have been driven to the subway tunnels to escape a surface scarred by radiation and populated by vicious, mutated animals. At the end of the last game, protagonist Artyom used a newly-recovered missile silo to wipe out a mysterious race of psychic beings known as the Dark Ones. Last Light finds Artyom wracked by guilty nightmares until he discovers that a single Dark One survived the attack. The end goal is set early on, but Last Light's plot swerves again and again right up to its last hour. Life in Metro exists within the delicate balance of four factions — the capitalist Hansa, the communist Red Line, the fascist Reich, and the...

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Metro: Last Light first-week retail sales eclipse lifetime US totals for Metro 2033

By Samit Sarkar on May 31, 2013 05.31.13

Metro: Last Light launched to critical acclaim earlier this month, and 4A Games' post-apocalyptic shooter has also proved to be a commercial success worldwide, said publisher Deep Silver today. In Last Light's first week on store shelves, its sales in the U.S. surpassed the lifetime sales numbers for Metro 2033 retail copies in the country. And globally, Deep Silver sold more copies of all versions of Last Light — all platforms, both digitally and at retail — in its first week of release than in the first three months of release for Metro 2033. That includes the well-performing Windows PC version, which outsold the PC version of Metro 2033 by a factor of three during its first week. Deep Silver did not provide specific sales numbers, however. "4A Games are honored by the...

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Metro: Last Light season pass covers four DLC packs for $15

By Samit Sarkar on May 22, 2013 05.22.13

Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games is planning four DLC packs for the post-apocalyptic first-person shooter, and players can pre-purchase all of them with the game's $15 season pass, publisher Deep Silver announced today. The season pass is now available on Windows PC and PlayStation 3 for $14.99, and on Xbox 360 for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15). It costs £11.99 in the U.K. and €14.99 in Europe. PlayStation Plus subscribers can pick up the pass for $11.24, a 25 percent discount, from May 21 to June 4 in the U.S. and from today to June 5 in Europe and the rest of the world. The first two pieces of DLC, the Faction Pack and the Chronicles Pack, will expand Last Light's single-player story. The Tower Pack will offer a single-player challenge that 4A said today is designed for Metro...

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Metro: Last Light dev says conditions weren't ideal, 'talent and relentlessness' drove team

By Alexa Ray Corriea on May 16, 2013 05.16.13

4A Games creative director Andrew "Prof" Prokhorov responded earlier today to former THQ president Jason Rubin's story about the studio's working conditions, telling Polygon the team behind Metro: Last Light is driven by "talent and relentlessness" rather than its resources. In a statement sent to Polygon, Prokhorov said Rubin was the only THQ president to ever visit the Ukranian office and provide feedback on its projects, adding that the development team supports Rubin. "For the last couple of months before the THQ bankruptcy we have been working together with Jason," Prokhorov told us. "Need to mention, for the last 10 years of working with THQ (including STALKER time), he was the only THQ president who was visiting our office, sending us feedback as to game improvements,...

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4A Games overcame poor conditions, hurdles in obtaining hardware during development of Metro: Last Light

By Alexa Ray Corriea on May 15, 2013 05.15.13

Ukrainian developer 4A Games overcame a number of hardships and hurdles in the development of Metro: Last Light, including poor and cramped working conditions, struggles to obtain hardware and armed thugs, according to a report by former THQ president Jason Rubin on GamesIndustry.biz. According to Rubin, the budget 4A had for Last Light was "less than some of its competitors spend on cut scenes." 4A's development team and office are also smaller than those for most AAA titles, Rubin said, and the production team "sat on folding wedding chairs, literally elbow to elbow at card tables in what looks more like a packed grade school cafeteria than a development studio." "Let's be honest: 4A was never playing on a level field," Rubin wrote. If 4A needed another dev kit or more powerful PC,...

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Metro: Last Light for Windows PC receiving custom FOV 'in the next few days'

By Jenna Pitcher on May 14, 2013 05.14.13

4A Games intend to release a Metro: Last Light update for Windows PC within the next few days that will provide players with Field of View customizations, according a post on the game's Steam community page. Although a FOV slider came at the request of players, 4A Games noted that there were valid reasons to keep a fixed FOV, stating the 3D elements like weapon ammo and watch needed to remain visible. "In addition, all the game's first-person cut scenes and cinematics and each and every animation involving Artyom's hands — idle weapon animations, reloads, ladder climbing, melee attacks etc, — were created assuming the same, fixed field of view," the update said. "Changing the FOV would break all the cut-scenes and animations — you would be able to see inside Artyom's arms, or...

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Metro: Last Light, Grid 2 discounted for PlayStation Plus members

By Megan Farokhmanesh on May 13, 2013 05.13.13

PlayStation Plus members will be able to grab Metro: Last Light for 20 percent off ($47.99) and the Grid 2 pre-order at a 10 percent discount ($53.99) starting this week, according to a post on the PlayStation Blog. Following the update, cross-buy platform adventure game Knytt Underground will also be added to the Instant Game Collection. PlayStation Plus members will be able to pick it up for free, while regular PSN members can grab it for $14.99. Darksiders and Tekken 6, meanwhile, will no longer be available through the Instant Game Collection as of May 21. Darksiders joined the Instant Game Collection in Janurary of this year, while Tekken 6 became available in March. Check out the full details for this week's PlayStation Store update here.

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Metro: Last Light on Steam includes digital copy of 'Metro 2033' novel

By Samit Sarkar on Apr 26, 2013 04.26.13

Metro: Last Light buyers who activate their Windows PC copies on Steam will receive a free digital copy of Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro 2033, the novel upon which 4A Games' 2010 game of the same name was based, publisher Deep Silver announced today. Glukhovsky originally published the post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel in his native Russian in 2005; the English version of the book was released in the U.S. at the same time as the THQ-published video game. The novel spawned an extended universe with dozens of stories authored by other writers, as well as a direct sequel, Metro 2034, penned by Glukhovsky himself and published in Russia in 2009. Glukhovsky's two Metro novels have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Metro: Last Light is 4A Games' sequel to its Metro 2033 game. Last...

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Metro: Last Light system requirements available, game bundled with Nvidia GTX 660 and up

By Samit Sarkar on Apr 17, 2013 04.17.13

Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games is building a game that will push your PC to its limits, and the company teamed up with Nvidia today to release three sets of system requirements for the upcoming shooter. The game will take advantage of Nvidia technology including PhysX to deliver advanced visual effects and a great-looking game, the graphics card manufacturer said on the GeForce blog. Nvidia posted minimum, recommended and optimum system requirements for Metro: Last Light; you can check them out at the bottom of this article. They're more detailed than the specifications in the game's Steam listing. Nvidia is including a free Steam copy of Metro: Last Light with GeForce GTX 660 and above graphics cards. Participating retailers in North America include Amazon and TigerDirect. M...

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Metro: Last Light up for pre-order on Steam, 10 percent off for Metro 2033 owners

By Samit Sarkar on Apr 05, 2013 04.05.13

Metro: Last Light is now available for pre-order on Steam, and along with the typical pre-order bonus content is a special offer: Metro 2033 owners get a 10 percent discount on pre-orders. That deal brings the price down by $4.99, since the regular price for the Windows PC version is $49.99. All pre-order customers will also receive the Limited Edition of the game. It includes the HUD-less Ranger Mode; a Modified Russian Rifle; extra military-grade bullets — ammunition is the currency of the Metro universe — and the Metro: Last Light digital comic by Dmitry Glukhovsky, the writer of the novels upon which the games are based. Metro: Last Light launches May 14 in North America on Windows PC as well as on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; it will be available May 17 in Europe. The Steam...

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Metro: Last Light development wasn't affected much by THQ transition, says Deep Silver

By Samit Sarkar on Mar 14, 2013 03.14.13

Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games has "not lost too much time on the development of the game" as a result of the transition from THQ to the Metro franchise's new owner, Deep Silver, the latter company said in an interview with VG247. Deep Silver's parent company, Koch Media, acquired the Metro IP for $5.8 million in January at THQ's first bankruptcy auction, and also picked up Saints Row developer Volition for $22.3 million. The publisher will lead all future development on both franchises. "Obviously the release date has been pushed back a little bit as the studio re-engages with a new publisher and tries to figure out QA, submissions and all the stuff you have to do behind the scenes," said Huw Beynon, global brand manager at Deep Silver, to VG247. THQ had planned to launch Last...

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  • Windows
    • Released 05/14/2013
    • Publisher Deep Silver
    • Developer 4A Games
    • Score 8.5
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