Re: FREE GAME: Metro Redux

On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:27:56 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 17/04/2025 15:00, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Heh. Light-hearted is not how I'd describe the Metro games. In fact,
given the comparison between the two, I think STALKER is the less
serious of the two, what with it more of a usual power fantasy (not to
say there isn't some of that in Metro either --especially the third
game-- but its more evident in STALKER).

>
I found the whole environment of Stalker just more oppressive with the
large open spaces, washed out colour palette and 'bleak' audio.

Oh, no denying that. STALKER isn't a happy-go-lucky game; in the Zone,
everything and everyone wants to kill you. But it's a small region of
a bigger world, and one you enter into willingly to seek your fortune.
Compare this to the Metro franchise, where it's equally dark and
murderous, except it's the whole world after a nuclear war.

One of the two comes across just a LITTLE less light-hearted than the
other. In my opinion, anyway.

;-)