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Xbox World 360 via CVG writes:

"You’re crouched in a corner clutching your AK-47 with both hands. You’re down to your last magazine. Five monsters are trying to get a lock on your scent in the next room and just beyond them a group of Nazis are sitting at their sentry post waiting for movement.

You should have saved some ammunition but you blew it all to buy a sniper rifle at the last outpost. Nietzschean law doesn’t apply: what doesn’t kill you here just makes you weaker. You want to go back but you can’t: the shelter doors are locked and won’t be opening again any time soon. Life in the Metro is tough – but above ground the situation’s even worse."

Verdict

A brilliantly atmospheric shooter with forgivably imperfect gunplay. Stick with it.

Uppers

* Gripping levels, superb world

* Full of clever ideas

Downers

* Weak shooting

Dracula – Undead Awakening is an addictive top-down shooter. Players control a grizzled Hunter of the Undead who chooses weapons and abilities, and then battles legions of undead foes including zombies, ghouls, werewolves and more. An arsenal of jaw-dropping powerful weaponry can be unlocked including such as Machine Guns, Buzz-Saws and Flamethrowers. Players can even earn upgrades for their weaponry and unique new perks for their character, all while their gruesome enemies increase in number and ferocity.

Dracula – Undead Awakening is available now. The WiiWare version costs just 1,000 Nintendo Wii points, while the DSiWare version is priced at 500 Nintendo DSi points.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

The next shooter from the creators of PS2 and Xbox shooter Black has been unveiled in the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine.

Developed by Codemasters’ Guildford team, Bodycount is a shooter to keep your eyes on. This is because the Guildford team features several key members from Criterion’s Black team, and is headed by Stuart Black who was co-creator on the FPS that shares his name

Shoot 1UP is described by Mommy’s Best Games as a shoot-em-up for “normal gamers,” but “normal” is not a term I’d quickly associate with the developer’s output. After all, its first Xbox Live Indie release was Weapon of Choice, an over-the-top, Contra-like shooter pumped full of gore, outlandish weaponry, and heavy metal music. And Shoot 1UP, with hand-drawn tapestries populated by pies, beached whales, and a large robotic woman with metallic, projectile breasts that fire waves of glowing bullets, strays just as far from the ordinary.

In a genre notoriously targeted at the hardest of hardcore, Shoot 1UP is an anomaly. Sure, you can recreate the traditional “bullet hell” experience — just select Serious difficulty, kick the game speed up to 200%, and go hog wild. But for those of us without the patience or skill set to endure even relatively mild shmups, Shoot 1UP presents something fresh — a more action-packed entry that scales wonderfully between casual observers and aficionados.

THQ has announced the PC hardware requirements for Metro 2033.

The publisher outlines the minimum, recommended and optimum spec for the highly-anticipated post-apocalyptic shooter. The specs also detail what you’ll need to play the game in 3D.

resumeplay writes: "Darwinia, as a PC game, has been around since 2005 on both Mac and Windows systems. It has garnered quite the cult following, which prompted developer Introversion Software to remodel the game, and it’s multiplayer sibling, for release on LIVE arcade. At first glance, there’s not a lot on the surface of this simplistic blend of real-time strategy (RTS), puzzle, and twin-stick shooter, but hit the jump for a look into this enigmatic, relatively unknown (to console gamers) arcade title."

Gamespot AU’s Crosshairs discusses a recent hands-on with Russian post-apocalyptic shooter Metro 2033.

Metal Gear Arcade gave me a headache. Announced at last year’s E3, Konami has taken the multiplayer component of Metal Gear Solid 4 and attempted to recreate the experience with networked arcade machines. Though, the company didn’t release any more information after E3, and many forgot about the game in the interim; it finally reappeared this weekend at the AOU Amusement Expo (an arcade game trade show in Japan), and we had the chance to play it.

Metal Gear Arcade (MGA) did not exactly set the gaming world on fire when it was announced. For one thing, outside of a handful of hardcore players, MGS4’s multiplayer component was widely derided and quickly forgotten. So the prospect of paying the equivalent of several dollars a round to play an underwhelming multiplayer shooter was not exciting. In order to combat this perception, Konami decided to add two important features to the game that can?t be replicated at home.

Apparently a man known as Paul Wendling (pictured above) who worked on the CGI/Real Time trailer for Platinum’s new game Vanquish has given some interesting insight into the game.

Including information on the game play and the functions of the suite.

With out further ado, hit the jump to find out more!

Halo: Reach will likely be Bungie’s final installment in the Halo series, and the developer has high expectations for the shooter.