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Metro 2033

Metro 2033

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First Person Shooter

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The whole world lies in ruins. Humanity is almost annihilated. Due to the high-level of radiation cities became unsuitable for living. Outside cities, as rumours say, there are endless burned out deserts and wilds of mutated forests. The survived ...

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Metro 2033 superior on PC, getting Steamworks treatment

Posted on Saturday, 20 February 2010 by Speed, source: Eurogamer
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Graphics will be best on PC
Eurogamer had an interview with 4A-Games' chief technical officer Oles Shishkovtsov where it became clear that Metro 2033 will look far better on PC than on consoles:
Graphics-wise, the PC version of the 4A engine is far removed from the console versions. All too often we've seen PC games that are identical to the 360 equivalents, simply offering you the ability to run at higher resolutions with higher frame-rates.

Metro 2033 features superior volumetric fog, double the precision in the PhysX, 2048x2048 textures (up against 1024x1024 on console), better shadow-map definition and filtering, object blur in DX10, sub-surface scattering for superior skin shaders, parallax mapping on all surfaces and better geometric detail with less aggressive LODs.

There's also going to be support for tessellation in DirectX 11. In basic terms, tessellation interpolates new polygons, so the closer you get to a tessellated object, the more polygons are generated.
Seeing as PC's outpace consoles in just about any department, it would be strange that a game would look better on console than on PC. Except if it's ported from console to PC which is a stupid move that developers and publishers tend to make more and more these days. And then they complain that PC gaming is going down...

Meanwhile, THQ and Valve have sent out word that the game will also be getting the Steamworks treatment:
"THQ and Valve today announced an agreement to power the PC version of 4A Games' Metro 2033 with a collection of Steamworks features and to offer the title electronically to the 25 million-plus gamers playing PC games via Steam."
When pre-ordering through Steam you'll also receive a free copy of Red Faction: Guerrilla.
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PC version for me, this game looks absolutely mind blowingly awesome.
PC version for me, this game looks absolutely mind blowingly awesome.
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Posted on 15:06, February 20th 2010
 

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