Metro: Last Light Will Not Ship with Multiplayer
Metro: Last Light's multiplayer aspect has been cancelled... for now.
Ukrainian developer 4A Games is reneging on promises of a Metro: Last Light multiplayer experience. Instead, the developer is going to focus its efforts on making a more solid single player campaign.
"Your response to our E3 demo made it very clear that although there was a lot of interest and intrigue around Metro’s multiplayer," wrote the developer on the official Metro site. "the single player campaign is what the fanbase cares about the most."
However, fans looking forward to the possibility of a Metro multiplayer need not despair… yet. Though the game won't be shipping with multiplayer, 4A isn't completely sloughing off the single player: "Right now we’re 100% focused on the single player campaign and not thinking beyond that. We don’t like throwing away work though, it’s a project we could potentially return to after Metro: Last Light ships." So… while it sounds highly unlikely, there's still a slim, slim chance that 4A may end up working on a multiplayer component after all.
With all the talk that the developer only ever dedicated few resources to the multiplayer, one wonders if such a decision to scrap multiplayer completely may have actually been a decision based off of Last Light's publisher, THQ. For the past year, THQ has been financially bereaved (though signs of its financial dire straits have been evident for quite a while), leading to the company formulating a reverse stock split to prevent the company from being delisted from NASDAQ and the election of ex-Naughty Dog Jason Rubin to the executive spot that ex-VP of Core Games Danny Bilson held. After thinning its ranks of employees and Darksiders II's somewhat-decent sales, THQ's managed to get itself back in the black. However, a Metro: Last Light multiplayer experience is probably cutting into precious capital that THQ can't spare (though, spending the original resources for the project can't have been cheap either.)
The good news is that with the developer's focus on the single player campaign, Metro: Last Light is still on track to release early 2013 for Windows, Xbox 360, and PS3.

but wait a second , didnt Cevat Yerli(Crytek) said that Crysis 3 will melt our PC's ??
Yeah well Yerli ,get in line, cause Metro LL will turn our PC's into dust first !
Hope my7970 GE will survive Metro LL
I think you'll have to ask nvidia/amd for that
but wait a second , didnt Cevat Yerli(Crytek) said that Crysis 3 will melt our PC's ??
Yeah well Yerli ,get in line, cause Metro LL will turn our PC's into dust first !
Hope my7970 GE will survive Metro LL
EA has a guy who brags that he will never green light ANYTHING unless it has multiplayer in it.
as its coded now? yea, ea and amd, im willing to bet they could fake alot of graphical effect, come out with a game that looks almost identical, but runs just fine on at max in even a mid range card.
between metro and crysis... from what i can tell, they optimized the hell out of cry engine, from the pathetic crysis 1, to each game looking better and requiring the same if not less hardware at higher settings.
i think that crysis is going to be screwing around with water physics, and that runs like hell on every gpu/cpu right now. ill give the over all graphical nod to crysis 3 for this one, mostly because i have seen what their engine can do through tech demos and in game thech demos, where as metro... i dont see the in game tech demos for it.
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now, more to the article... didnt most people call the end of days when diablo 3 launched without pvp?
lets forget the game has little to offer even on a good day, but this was pre launch you had people saying its dead to them over no pvp...
why does this get a pass?
is the story that engaging? because from what i remember metro was, and is still known as a tech demo game, i never heard it being a good game on its own right.
First time you play and aren't good as good as someone who played for a year = n00b. The next when you learned some from the first = Damn cheater using aimbot /wall haxxor - you suxx. What a funny bunch to play with!
Feels familiar when playing with kids? =)