Metro Redux Graphics Comparison and Review are up

Metro is an absolutely excellent series but 2033 was a bit rough, Last Light felt way more polished. The Redux has seemed to really make 2033 shine. I preordered and am looking forward to playing with better graphics and AI. I really wasn't expecting this big of a change...

Metro Redux Reviews

redux for sure has better lighting.... but everything else looks significantly worse IMO. wtf?

I thought some things looked a little iffy at first too and then I turned the video to 1080 and everything looked a lot better. Did you watch the video in 1080 HD?

im more refering to the character models and a bunch of textures..... i did watch the video in 1080, but resolution wont make the new character models look any less completely fucked. i far prefer the old models.

@cyloninside: Looks like they developed for console kids. They like shiny bright things.

@cyloninside: The ones at 50 and 1:40 are pretty meh but the rest of the models look like an upgrade and animations on the characters are a lot better. Everything overall looks vastly better, especially the lighting as you said which is really important for a dark and atmospheric game like this.

I prefer the original's art style more. It's a lot darker and gives better atmosphere which is important for a game like this.

A lot darker? Really? I'd say the Redux looks a lot darker, and literally, there isn't white light everywhere. I prefer realism when it comes to atmosphere. The original has over dramatic artsy lighting and this scene might as well be black and white and have god rays shooting in every direction. In the original it looks like the heavens are opening and an angel is about to pop out of that very serene lighting at any moment while Redux looks gritty and realistic.

This is George Lucas status of unnecessary changes and visual updates...

Why did they add that cutscene of you being pushed out of the way of the car? I don't understand why they would take control away from you and make your crew look dumb in the process.

I don't understand the dramatic change in graphics and artstyle. The hard and dark shadows along with with the lamp and fire lighting made you feel like you were underground. The new visuals look like they could be taking place in a regular house...

However, I do appreciate the changes in the facial expressions. That was always something that was lacking in the original game.

You guys are so backwards it blows my mind. The original has much brighter and more "regular house" like lighting. In the original it looks like the entire room is lit by uniform house lighting vs Redux having light just from the lamp. In Redux you can see light coming off the lamp and in the original it looks like there is overhead lighting that's lighting the entire room.

Are you guys borderline blind? O_o

Also the video review shows a lot more of the darker areas, the comparison shows most well lit areas.

I prefer the new one in general but some textures are really worse than the original and i wish they didnt change character models this much im not much of a fan of original metro 2033 but they seem to look better

@k3ck said:

@JigglyWiggly_ said:

I prefer the original's art style more. It's a lot darker and gives better atmosphere which is important for a game like this.

A lot darker? Really? I'd say the Redux looks a lot darker, and literally, there isn't white light everywhere. I prefer realism when it comes to atmosphere. The original has over dramatic artsy lighting and this scene might as well be black and white and have god rays shooting in every direction. In the original it looks like the heavens are opening and an angel is about to pop out of that very serene lighting at any moment while Redux looks gritty and realistic.

Yes, and I still prefer the original in the screenshot you took.

I prefer the original character models.

I'm looking forward to this because I never got to truly play each game. (they didn't work well enough on my old PC so I stopped)

Original looks more gritty

Anyway I'm not paying $20 for a reskin of the same game with more shinyness, that will probably sell to the console nerds haha.

@FelipeInside: You're in for quite a treat. Both are pretty damn awesome. I thought Last Light was better than Bioshock Infinite, especially the gunplay and actual gameplay.

@JigglyWiggly_: Maybe from an artistic standpoint like if you were gonna frame it on your wall or something then yeah, I'd agree. As a realistic and atmospheric game? Not so much. I'd prefer having the original framed on my wall while playing the Redux.

@k3ck said:

@JangoWuzHere said:

The hard and dark shadows along with with the lamp and fire lighting made you feel like you were underground. The new visuals look like they could be taking place in a regular house...

You guys are so backwards it blows my mind. The original has much brighter and more "regular house" like lighting. In the original it looks like the entire room is lit by uniform house lighting vs Redux having light just from the lamp. In Redux you can see light coming off the lamp and in the original it looks like there is overhead lighting that's lighting the entire room.

Are you guys borderline blind? O_o

Also the video review shows a lot more of the darker areas, the comparison shows most well lit areas.

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Look at how the lighting is subtely changing every second in the original. The color shifts from red-yellow-orange quickly and randomly. The lighting conditions are very poor and the light casts incredibly hard and dark shadows. This type of lighting is only present in Metro original, the redux edition looks like it could take place in a skyrim mod or something.

OG looks better. This reminds me of shitty doom 3 bfg edition where they messed it all up.

Should I buy the original version of Metro LL or the Redux ?

@MK-Professor: Redux for sure. The original is kinda rough. It runs worse and doesn't look as good. Also the AI is improved in the Redux.

From what I have seen the Metro 2033 Redux indeed look better than the original Metro 2033, but it looks like that this is not true for Metro LL.

Metro LL Original:

Metro LL Redux:

This.

Original

Redux

The original looks better to me.

I also think the original looks better.

Anyone actually bought it than can report. I'm quite tempted to get the 2033 version

Redux will benefit new gamers of the franchise.Those who finished the first 2 games will unlikely get Redux. Unless they want to spend on something they've already finished and do have a lot more time on their hands. I know I won't and don't (and yeah I finished both original games already).

Or maybe they just want to spend a measly $12 to replay a highly improved version of the game, like myself. :)

I'd say OG Loc all the way. Gritty as fudge which fits the game.

Now that I've actually played some of it, the redux of 2033 overall looks much better than the original.

The animation especially looks much better.

I'm getting Redux this week

This.

You'd have to be blind to prefer the original over Redux. Redux looks far better. The game is still very dark and moody, nothing has changed at all in that aspect. I took some screenshots of areas that I thought looked awesome but once I saw the screenshot they looked really bad. The game looks far better in action, screenshots don't do it justice.

Last Light Redux I have mixed feelings about. Some areas look wayyy better while others look a bit worse.

Even at 50% off it is still abit on the expensive side. The directors cut for Dues Ex cost me about £4. This is £17. Saying that though, it's two games.

Does anyone know what today's patch did?

@topgunmv: It changed how/where the game saves and other various things that are unknown.

@uninspiredcup: You're comparing a directors cut with some minor tweaks to a complete overhaul of an entire game.

i will be grabbing this on my XBOX as my PC is chock full of stuff already. I really wish LL had arrived on Wii U like originially promised, but THQ had old out of date dev kits before they went bust

So, day 1 launch. Game crashes straight to desktop for most people. 800+ post thread on steam.

Developer says a patch is coming, but they can't patch it now (get this) because it's late the publishers are in their beds!

No joke.

People sleep? Holy crap, that's really shocking news.

Doesn't crash to the desktop for me, so it certainly isn't happening for everyone.

Anyways, it appears the patch improved the graphics. I've noticed more smoke, better textures, and much better lighting in some spots.

I also think they increased the level of tessellation. It's almost like the "very high" setting's assets were missing or something in the initial release.

Shitty 12 year old sarcasm will not change the fact it's a broken piece of shit on launch my friend.

Yea, people sleep. People also do overtime.

I dono if you have ever worked, you sound young. But I recall working in a meat factory as a hygiene cleaner. Simply, hosing a fucking floor.

And you know what sonny? People stayed overtime, without pay to ensure it was clean for butchers the next morning. Because, even just cleaning a floor, people gave a shit.

We didn't have any apologist weasels on multiple floor related forums making excuses for our incompetence, no, we cleaned that fucking floor one way or another.

But hey, this is just a game. Dat floor ment the world.

Lol holy crap are you uptight. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed today? I don't know if this is your first PC game but most PC games have problems with some cards on launch, this is what patches are for. They can't possible test their game on every single graphics card/configuration ever before the game launches. Every real PC gamer has been through this shit a hundred times. You think people are gonna get out of bed and start working because of a few gamers that can't play their game? Don't act so self entitled and be happy they're patching it quickly. I sound "young"? I can at least form proper sentences and paragraphs and don't throw temper-tantrums.

No excuse.