History VideoGame / Metro2033

** Beta version Nazis sported a three armed swastika used in the book.

* CoolCar: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdFuC4OpiA Ranger's vehicle]]. In the book it was a regular firetruck, in the game it's a modified [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZelle GAZelle truck]].

* HarderThanHard: Ranger Mode. It doesn't matter whether you pick [[HarderThanHard Ranger Easy]] or [[BeyondTheImpossible Ranger Hardcore]], it's still quite difficulty and the game was NintendoHard to begin with. A list of the notable things it does to murder players includes:
** Making ammunition incredibly scarce to the point where you will likely go through most of the game with only your knife.
** Making Artyom more fragile so that even a few hits from a Nosalis can put him in critical condition.
*** And every single hit seems to go to your gas mask, so those break more quickly too.
** Making enemy attacks do more damage.
** Fighting humans is so difficult as to be nearly impossible.
*** Seriously, the best way to deal with gunfights is to evade everyone.

* TheWarSequence: Slightly [[AvertedTrope averted]] in the last combat sequence of the game, when you and the rangers are surrounded by mutants and you have to push your way past them to get to [[spoiler: the Ostankino Tower]]. Whilst there are a hefty amount of enemies to get through, especially compared to the rest of the game, and it's very practical and satisfying to burn through the last of your [[TooAwesomeToUse military-grade ammunition]] there, if you look closely [[spoiler: most of the mutants surrounding you are [[AvertedTrope actually only 2-D, have no way of attacking you and are only there to make it look like there are hundreds of enemies surrounding you.]]]] However, at the point where it happens you're supposed to be running very fast and if you dally too long in the section noticing this you get your face ripped off, it doesn't make too much difference.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Men go out and protect the stations, run the trading caravans, and maintain machinery and equipment. Women stay home and take care of the kids, cook the food, and watch the pigs.

* DoubleStandard: Men go out and protect the stations, run the trading caravans, and maintain machinery and equipment. Women stay home and take care of the kids, cook the food, and watch the pigs.

* ScienceFictionVersusFantasy: Post-nuclear wasteland with humans surviving off pigs and fungus, fighting mutants and crawling through ruins--more-or-less a standard AfterTheEnd setting. Then we throw in the murderous ghosts and AfterlifeExpress...

* TheUndead: Apparently, the world got blown up so good, the gates to the afterlife got sealed. When someone bites it, they haunt that stretch of tunnel ''forever''. There's one tunnel that's so haunted that even the mutants and rats are too scared to go there; Khan comments "This tunnel must re-live its past. And those unfortunate enough to walk here at such a moment, usually join that past." There's one very creepy scene where Khan chants at a bunch of ghosts so that they let you through.

* AbnormalAmmo: Subverted. Military grade rounds are normal in other games, but here they are the only form of currency, which means that using them in either the AK-type rifles or the VSK-94 suppressed carbine literally means you're shooting money away.

* AbnormalAmmo: Subverted. Military grade rounds are normal in other games, but here they are the only form of currency, which means that using them equals shooting money.

** According to 4A Games they did a stealth overhaul for Last Light and plan to let the player do a full stealth run a viable option, unlike M2033 where there were certain moments where Artyom had to shoot his way through.

Along the way, Artyom faces danger from not only the Dark Ones, but also the "normal" [[NuclearNasty mutated wildlife]] that prowl the tunnels, unpredictable and deadly [[RealityIsOutToLunch anomalies]], the [[DeathWorld hostile environment]] of the surface and, of course, unfriendly humans (from bandits to [[DirtyCommunists militant Soviets]] and [[ThoseWackyNazis resurgent Nazis]]). Oh, and there're ''[[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]]''. Nothing quite gets you like seeing the silhouettes and hearing the screams of people who ''aren't there''. Especially when everyone else notices, and the hard-as-nails veterans completely lose their shit...

* BigDamnHeroes: When Artyom gets captured and was nearly executed by Nazis, Rangers Ullman and Pavel come into the room and swiftly eliminate the captors without firing a single bullet.

* CoolButInefficient: Scopes on pneumatic weapons and firearms. There are only two levels in the game big enough for long-distance sniping, glares and oily thumbprints on the optics obstruct vision in the dark and the zoom is excessive for close combat. Scoped Tihar rifle looks awesome though.

* CycleOfRevenge: Even though humanity is on the verge of extinction, people still continue to fight each other over just about everything, including ideology. The Communists and the Nazis are the worst of the bunch, as the two practically fight non-stop and commit atrocity upon atrocity in pursuit of their respective beliefs.

** [[{{Woolseyism}} That translation is actually fairly clever]]. English doesn't really have a word for "windmill worker", but it does have one for "someone who works in a mill". Miller. Since windmills are very commonly mills as well...

** [[{{Woolsleyism}} That translation is actually fairly clever]]. English doesn't really have a word for "windmill worker", but it does have one for "someone who works in a mill". Miller. Since windmills are very commonly mills as well...

** Heavy Automatic Shotgun fits that trope too. Basically, it is a [=DShK=] that was modified to use 12x70 ammunition and is light enough to be carried by a human. Initially it was available only in a pre-order version of the game from Gamestop, but the Russian community already made it available for any versions.

* BlastOut: Bourbon and the bandit leader at the ''Suharevskaya'' station (Called "Dry" in English version). [[spoiler:[[MutualKill Both die]].]]

** That translation is actually fairly clever. English doesn't really have a word for "wildmill worker", but we do have one for "someone who works in a mill". Miller. As Windmills are very commonly mills as well...

* EmergencyWeapon: Trench knife. Also throwing knives and Helsing. Sort of. If you don't forget to pick up knives and arrows you will never run out of ammunition.

* VaderBreath: you breathe very loudly while wearing your gas mask.