If you’ve all the time wished to check out the Metro sequence, a remastered model of the primary recreation is presently a free obtain.
Last month marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Metro sequence of first particular person shooter video video games. While developer 4A Games already put out an anniversary video to have fun the event, it’s preserving the celebrations going past simply that.
Out of nowhere, 4A Games has made Metro 2033 Redux, the 2014 remaster of the very first Metro recreation, free to everybody.
It’s very previous now but it surely’s an incredible recreation and that is the proper alternative for newcomers to expertise the primary entry earlier than the promised new title seems… however you’ll need to act rapidly.
How to get Metro 2033 Redux free of charge
Metro 2033 Redux is presently free as a digital obtain on Steam and GOG. 4A Games’ announcement on X additionally mentions it must be free on the Xbox retailer as effectively – though once we checked it was nonetheless listed at £15.99.
Judging by responses from followers, we’re not the one ones having hassle and 4A Games has stated it’s wanting into it, however within the meantime, it’s offered a solution: ‘If you undergo to the sport web page itself the button will change to ‘set up’ – undecided why it comes up as full value on the search navigation.’
If you’re in any respect excited by taking part in Metro 2033 Redux, we suggest you obtain it ASAP, since the supply will finish on Wednesday, April 16 at 4pm.
Will there be one other Metro recreation?
4A Games has confirmed that it’s engaged on a brand new Metro recreation. It shared the information final month, as a part of the preliminary anniversary celebrations, by way of an replace on its website.
Exact particulars are slim, however 4A Games has stated that its subsequent recreation will likely be closely influenced by the continuing Ukraine-Russia battle. For those that don’t know, 4A Games is presently primarily based in Sliema, Malta however was based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
‘As artwork turned life for a lot of of our builders in Ukraine, we drew from that lived expertise to create a fair darker story, these themes already current in Metro changing into ever-more obvious and necessary,’ wrote 4A Games.
‘As battle, the battle for energy, the horrors of tyranny, and the value of freedom have turn out to be a part of our lives over the previous 3+ years, we’re nonetheless residing and dealing throughout this wartime, and that inevitably shapes the video games we make.’
The studio additionally intently collaborates with Dmitry Glukhovsky, creator of the unique Metro books, who has been very outspoken together with his criticisms of Russia and faces an eight 12 months jail sentence if he ever returns to the nation.
‘Dmitry has all the time spoken out in opposition to the battle in Ukraine from the beginning – a brave determination for any Russian, that has seen him sentenced to jail (in absentia) – and we’re proud to have him as a buddy and co-creator as we inform this subsequent, and by no means extra related chapter of Metro collectively. Rest assured, you might be in for fairly the experience.’
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