By some strange twist of fate/coincidence/THQ stalking me, Metro 2034 was announced yesterday evening, not long after my rant about its predecessor was introduced to the internets. The coincidence is quite shocking, even if a sequel was inevitable, with its unique selling point being that it will support the third dimension (the one with glasses, not the one we’re used to now, because that’s not really 3D I’m told), indicating it’ll either make it to PlayStation 3 this time, or that the Xbox 360 will support 3D in the very near future.
Fortunately, I’m not alone in practically detesting the original, and if 4A Games have more of the same crap up its sleeve then it will be worth avoiding like the plague. Ideally, the sequel would be handed over to id Software who, despite losing the classic Doom atmosphere of the original games, produced a rather credible sequel in Doom 3. Unfortunately, id are beavering away on Doom 4 and are somewhat engaged, so it looks likely we’ll be ‘enjoying’ another dose of evil, exploding bacteria balls, only this time they’ll be in ‘Omg, they’re jumping out of the screen!’ 3D. Great.
