PNY GeForce GTX570 Enthusiast Edition Review

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 for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.

The game utilizes multi-platform 4A Engine, running on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows. There is some contention regarding whether the engine is based on the pre-release X-Ray engine (as claimed by Sergiy Grygorovych, the founder of GSC Game World, as well as users who have seen the 4A Engine SDK screenshots, citing visual similarities, shared resources, and technical evaluation of the pre-release 4A Engine demo conducted at the request of GSC Game World), or whether the engine is an original development (as claimed by 4A Games and Oles’ Shiskovtsov in particular) who claims it would have been impractical to retrofit the X-ray engine with console support). The PC version includes exclusive features such as DirectX 11 support and has been described as “a love letter to PC gamers” because of the developers’ choice “to make the PC version [especially] phenomenal”.

While the pace of this game often seems slow, the graphics are absolutely stunning with the details turned up. This comes at a price requiring a very powerful graphics card to experience the visuals at decent frame rates. Let's see if the PNY GTX 570 brings enough power to tame this particularly demanding game engine.

We are testing with the High preset selected. This is one step down from the maximum but is still very demanding at 1080p, especially with PhysX enabled.

This actually looks a lot worse than it ‘felt'. Only on one instance did the frame rate dip to around 14 frames per second on the GTX 570, averaging much higher than this generally throughout our testing. This engine places a heavy load on the system, but the GTX570 delivered a great gaming experience.

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