A free next-gen replace is coming to Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Final Gentle Redux on twenty second October for PC (twenty ninth October for consoles).
The replace comes because the Metro sequence passes 50 million copies offered worldwide, 16 years on from the unique Metro 2033’s launch.
The studio stresses that the replace “is not a full remaster or remake”, however “the unique Metro Redux expertise and aesthetic has been preserved” with the addition of 4K textures throughout all platforms, improved animations, higher-quality audio, and richer environmental element, alongside a batch of community-requested bug fixes and quality-of-life modifications.
On PlayStation 5, PS5 Professional, and Xbox Collection X/S, the replace provides native assist with platform-specific extras, together with PSSR on PS5 Professional, TSR upscaling and anti-aliasing on Xbox Collection X, and spatial audio on Xbox platforms extra broadly.
Console gamers can even be capable to run the video games at native 4K/60fps or upscaled 4K/120fps on suitable shows, with upgraded lighting, shadows and particle results, DualSense Adaptive Triggers and Xbox Impulse Triggers, {hardware} tessellation and displacement, and power-saving modes on each platforms.
Xbox gamers moreover get Play Anyplace and handheld assist, whereas on PC, the replace brings DLSS assist alongside its personal spatial audio and quality-of-life fixes.
Full patch notes are being saved for launch, however the replace shall be free for all current homeowners of Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Final Gentle Redux on PC by way of Steam, Epic Video games Retailer, Home windows Retailer, and GOG, and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S.
The replace additionally units the stage for Metro 2039, which is slated to launch on 4th February. Eurogamer went hands-on with the sport again in August, with our Dom writing that “making video games is tough underneath regular circumstances, however having performed about two hours of Metro 2039 I am floored by what the group has managed right here.”
“In addition to being a reliable shooter with exceptional graphics and a narrative impressed by the harshest of actual world occasions, the crushing sense of claustrophobia and menace buzzing on this planet of Metro 2039 makes earlier video games within the sequence appear nearly relaxed. They are saying diamonds are fashioned underneath strain, I suppose, which I say to Ulmer.”