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Metro 2033
Metro 2033
 I played Metro 2033. It’s good, you should pick it up if it seems even remotely interesting to you. I’m a big fan of Alien. The whole series, actually, and the surrounding universe. It’s one of those worlds that really stuck with me, and unlike most people, I even like Alien 3. It’s certainly better than Resurrection, (did you hear? Sigourney Weaver wants to make another one. My WTFdar is going nuts, but shit, more Alien, good, right?) though ultimately, I think the films are great in descending order. That isn’t to say I won’t go see more Alien-world stuff, quite the opposite; I’m gearing up to see Predators here shortly. That, of course, meant digging up copies of the proceeding movies and immersing myself in all the Glover/ Busey goodness that’s come to pass. It bugs me a bit, though, that Predator 2, and in effect, all of the Alien-universe creations without Weaver, lacks all of the gender-breaking characteristics that were core to the series. It all comes down to when Pvt. Vasquez-stand-in Cantrell is spared. She doesn’t get to be all Hardcastle McCormick and die like everyone else not too old for this shit, no, the Predator uses his (his or her, really) thermal imaging (which wouldn’t work but that’s neither here nor there) and notes that she is pregnant, hosting an innocent life (who’s the predator to judge, for reals) and instead of raining down horrific death, moves on to greener pastures of hemorrhaging other less-knocked-up people’s intestines. (Wait, I just realized, even that logic doesn’t hold up: the nuke would have killed a whole lot of innocent people. Now I’m doubly pissed about Cantrell.) More Than Just a Summer Flick   Cantrell isn’t judged by her character or ability, she’s just a helpless chick who is pitied for her condition. Once again sex trumps all, and by its most fundamental distinction. Ripley was a capability pioneer, a person who succeeds through refusal to submit, not despite her gender but her human frailty, and that good will was undone, albeit tangentially, in a way that doesn’t really make Predator 2 less of an exposition of the greater Alien universe, but still in a canned, summer-flick trope way, just another movie. None of this really feeds back into Metro 2033, where you play the son of a great man who disobeys his father in pursuit of man’s post-apocalyptic restoration, a combloc renaissance. And I mean man-as-in-mankind way, not man-as-in-male way. Metro 2033’s good, go play you some, have fun, and then we can talk about it or gender in science fiction, or Hell, cars or guns or video cards, I’ll be here. Oh, speaking of guns: the fully-automatic 5mm BB gun in that game? Those things are fucking real. I mean, not that exact model, or anything, but yeah. Russians are pushing the limits on lethal air pistols, on account of handgun controls. Like, at first I had to suspend my disbelief there, I don’t know why, the game’s heavy on mutants clawing at you from just beyond the pale, and entities that pass freely through the aether to strive alongside mankind in not just its mere survival, but its destiny and provenance, but I tripped on murderous toys (although you can definitely make the argument that if they’re murderous, they’re no longer toys).
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