Metro: Last Light Redux

Metro: Last Light Redux is a reworked version of the 2013 action game Metro: Last Light, loosely continuing Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels and set a year after the events of Metro 2033 in the contaminated tunnels and ruins of a Moscow destroyed by a nuclear strike. The 2014 Redux edition moved the game onto the improved engine base that 4A Games polished alongside the Metro 2033 Redux remaster, unified both approaches to play - stealth infiltration and more open shootouts - into a single selectable style, reworked the lighting and character models, and added all the add-on content released so far to the package, including a new, considerably harder Ranger mode.

The player once again steps into the role of Artyom, who makes his way through the contaminated surface and claustrophobic tunnels between factions of survivors, fanatics, bandits and the supernatural phenomena plaguing the metro. The game builds on tense atmosphere, managing limited ammunition that also serves as currency with traders, maintaining a gas mask with a limited filter lifespan, and choosing between sneaking through shadow and light or direct confrontation. Redux also made it possible to switch between Survival and Spartan modes at any time during play, so everyone could fine-tune their own level of tension and difficulty without having to start the game over.

On the PlayStation 4, the Redux edition released simultaneously with the Xbox One and PC versions in August 2014 as one of the titles that, in the first year of the new console generation, showed how much stronger hardware could handle older games reworked for higher performance. In contemporaneous comparisons of the console versions, the PS4 edition was regarded as the technically more advanced variant, running more smoothly and with a sharper, more stable image than its Xbox One counterpart, without this affecting the content of the campaign or add-ons in any way. For many players who had missed the first game on PS3, it also became the first opportunity to play both reworked Metro games in one connected package on a Sony console.

Why play it: For players who missed the first game on PS3, the PS4 version is the ideal opportunity to play both reworked Metro games together - and in contemporaneous console comparisons it ran more smoothly than the Xbox One version.