2010, this was the year of gaming that had the most to offer; God of War 3, Heavy Rain, Splinter Cell Conviction, Mass Effect 2, etc. In the course of the last 4 weeks, I have played through GoW3, Heavy Rain, SC:C, needless to say I've been in graphical bliss (except SC:C graphics disappointed me) and high production value gaming bliss. 

Despite all the money thrown to these great studios, somehow a small low budget game with some horrendous graphics managed to be the most enjoyable, and immersive gaming experience I've yet to experience in 2010. How does something like this happen I ask myself, I already played what I believed would be the "atmospheric" game of 2010 (Bioshock 2) 2 months ago. But no game as of yet has made me feel fear like I have in Metro 2033, and I've played my share of survival horror ranging from Dead Space, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Condemned etc. Below are 3 aspects I think need to put in more survival horror games for great immersion!

1. Unlimited spawning enemies: It's rare in a game where ammo is limited that the enemies themselves are...unlimited in many areas. This is an aspect I absolutely love and believe should be implemented in more survival horror games, immersion doesn't occur when I kill 4 monsters and suddenly the scary music is gone and I know it's time to explore. The scariest times are when I have to explore and fight at the same time.

2. Librarian: The librarian monster is without a doubt in my mind THE BEST MONSTER IDEA ever created! Now I played on Hardcore and killing a librarian will cost you 2-3 clips (that's about 1/5th of my ammo supply), only to have a new one pop out 10 seconds later. So how do you stop such a beast? Simple, you must stare at it...the longer you stare at a librarian the higher chance of you scaring it away with your ugly mug.

3. The F.E.A.R. like sequences! I love the crazy weird sequences that occur in FEAR! Metro 2033 devs must have hired some Monolith members because they are just as good at doing it if not better.

Of course there are plenty of bad things in the game, the upgrade system is pretty bad, along with the stealth and shooting mechanics (yah I'll pretty much say the gameplay itself is less than stellar..), but no game has come close to Metro 2033 at making me really feel like the protagonist. So what about the rest of the Chartz community, what did you like/dislike about Metro 2033?

I love the game playing on PC on my new 5770 it looks pretty impressive technically (artistically not so much, and the humans look weird) I quite like the gameplay but then I liked STALKER lol overall from what I have played I have really enjoyed it great game. I did find the occasional headless chicken AI pretty funny to.

I thought metro 2033 was a damn good looking game... I played it on PC dunno if you did?

I'd say it's tied for me being one of the two most underrated games this year... (my tastes not anyone elses) I'd rate metro 2033 85-90 range, So it's ten or more points lower than I thought it should be.

And the fact is... Is I generally don't like FPS, Although the ones I like. I really love. This genre is kinda love or hate for me. And I don't like multiplayer so the singleplayer experience was awesome :)

just like me lol I am not really a big FPS guy so I suck at multi player so a avoid that mostly, tho I do occasionally play a bit of TF2. so what is your second most underrated game?

Nier it looks fugly, but its fun, Metro 2033 was a better game than nier. however I'd give nier probably 80-ish... but meta has it at a 69. while metro's was at a 77 and I'd give 85-90ish I think that's my opinion anyways.

Yeah, I like TF2, I just suck at it... and don't want to invest time to get good at it. The style's awesome though imo

the FPS I've liked recently were all singeplayer heavy

Bioshock
Deus Ex (either, though the shooting part of it is bad :P) <--favorite
Half Life (both)
Crysis
FEAR

maybe more, I can't remember :P

hmm Nier eh it does look different and I do kinda like different lol but as I don't own a console as of yet (hope to get a PS3 sometime after I save up enough money the 5770 cleared me out). I am about the same with TF2 I usually end up just being a medic lol.

I have been interested in Bioshock but I hear that the PC version has problems, Deus Ex I have invisable war but couldn't really get into it as for the first my freind has a copy but I can't really get the motivation to put the time I think it would need to get into it especially with Dragon age and Avernum 6 to finish. As for Half-life I liked HL2 and eps and was going to get the first then I heard about the black mesa mod and I think I will wait for that. as for FEAR and Crysis I may pick them up during a steam sale or something  lol.

haha, but if you do get a ps3... nier is no where close to near(lol) the first batch of games you should pick up :P. Even then, I can see how people hate because it's really weird imo, but my kinda weird.

I want the black mesa mod as well.

I liked the game but I disliked those 2 things.

1. I hate unlimited respawn in any game, I find it stupid.

2. I agree that the librarian was a good idea, but most of the time, it doesn't work. You stare it but after a few seconds, he still attacks you. Also, even if you scare him off, he reappears after 2 seconds and you have to do the staring thing again.

but then you get to try knifing them to death with only 4 throwing knives, 3 shotgun shells and 6 pistol bullets left of your ammo lol.

That's what I tried, but at the end of the level there are so many of them that I just ran away till the goal.