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Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is the “Crysis” of 2010. It is a very demanding game on any PC with the very latest DX11 visuals. Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror, and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel “Metro 2033” by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in Ukraine and released in March 2010. The game utilizes multi-platform 4A Engine and there is some doubt if the games engine is related to the original XRay engine used in S.T.A.L.K.E.R..

The Metro 2033 story takes place mostly in post-apocalyptic Moscow’s metro system but occasionally the player has to go above ground on some missions and to search for valuables. Metro 2033‘s locations reflect the dark atmosphere of real metro tunnels but in a much more dangerous and lethal manner. Strange phenomena and noises are frequent, and mostly the player has to rely only on their flashlight to find their way around in otherwise total darkness. Even more deadly is the surface as it is severely irradiated and a gas mask must be worn at all times due to the toxic air.

Earlier this month, THQ released an official benchmark for Metro 2033. It is available when Steam updates the game and it includes a quality benchmark that provides minimum/maximum/average framerates, and you can adjust many graphics settings including PhysX, AA, DOF and tessellation, and the number of runs. Our presets are set to maximum with 4xAA and no PhysX.:

Here is our first chart at 2560×1600:

Both cards present a slideshow at the highest resolution with the Radeons chugging from frame-to-frame.

All of our cards struggle with Metro 2033 with the aggressive settings that we used. Although we see our GTXes beating the HD 5870s at the setting that we used, we would lower settings further if we played at 1920×1200; probably turning off DOF and lowering tessellation and AA . Metro 2033 is tessellation-heavy and it appears to take advantage of GF100 tessellators better than the Radeon’s single one.