It’s an entirely unnecessary flourish, and yet this tiny action adds so much to Metro’s sense of immersion.
But with a quick tap of the G key, your character will wipe the faceplate clean with his left hand.
As you explore the cracked and blasted landscape of irradiated Moscow, the mask will become gummed up with various substances, be it mud splashed up from a nearby puddle, or blood from an enemy you’ve just blasted with a shotgun. Metro: Last Light takes this idea one step further. It acknowledges that the player is separated from the game world by a screen, and by separating the main character Artyom from the world in the same way, it compounds that sense of immersion, drawing the player deeper into the game world. But the gas mask is crucial to Metro’s immersion in another way.
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