Trivia / Metro 2033

The Video Game

• Bowdlerise: The German version renamed the Nazis to "fascists", due to Germany's heavy laws about media dealing with the Third Reich. It's more subtle than it seems — Russians do often refer to Nazis as just "fascists".
• Defictionalization: The logo of the Rangers/Spartan Order was adopted by a real military formation, the Sparta Battalion of the Donetsk People's Republic.
• Dueling Games:
  • Compare with Fallout 3, in which a youth has lived underground their entire life, and must embark on The Quest to the surface and beyond.
  • It's basically S.T.A.L.K.E.R., except more linear. Bonus points for 4A Games actually being founded by a couple of people who were involved with S.T.A.L.K.E.R's development, specifically the underground lab levels. Both are also based on sci-fi novels by Russian authors. In the Russian version, the "Ranger" difficulty levels are actually called "Stalker" levels, probably to indicate how much fun you'll have playing them.
  • Plot-wise it's also reminiscent of Hellgate: London, which had pretty much the same premise, only with demons instead of mutants.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The original version of the game was removed from digital distribution upon the release of Metro 2033 Redux, even though Redux was essentially a complete remake of the game rather than a remaster. This means anyone wanting to experience the original Metro 2033 will have to find a Steam key or get the game on Xbox 360, and the Steam version of the Ranger DLC is completely lost.
• The Other Darrin: Artyom's voice actor was replaced in Metro: Last Light, and said actor also re-dubbed all of Artyom's chapter intro dialogue in the Redux version. In addition, several voice actors were also replaced in Redux.

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