(If you forget which one you chose, just look at your watch – 2033's analog model shows up in Survival, while Spartan features Last Light's digital timepiece. It begins with the choice of whether to scuttle through the tunnels in Survival mode – which promises harsher, Metro 2033-esque threats and scarce resources – or storm them with plentiful ammo and faster pacing in the Last Light-inspired Spartan mode.

(Also, get ready to hear lots from veteran anime-and-game actor Steve Blum, who lends his gravelly voice to roughly half of the characters.) That’s all unchanged from the original version on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, but Redux improves on both the graphics and gameplay in significant ways - mostly for the better. Here, bullets are currency, guns are ugly and homemade, gasmasks spell the difference between life and death, and everyone calls them 'gosmosks' in hokey faux-Russian accents. It’s a journey that takes you through creepy tunnels and ruins haunted by shaggy monsters and eerie phantoms, in which tense moments of stealth or exploration might suddenly give way to explosive, crowded firefights.

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