Taking place over a single year, you’re joined by your friends in the Spartan Rangers, wife Ana and led by Colonel Miller on board the steam train ‘Aurora’, searching for the above ground remnants of civilisation and answers as to what and why the apocalypse came to pass, and just why Moscow was left in the dark (hah!) for so long. That being said, it’s a great refresh of how Metro likes to handle its survival and crafting mechanics before you get into the real meat of the game.
METRO EXODUS REVIEW SERIES
I haven’t played the previous offerings of the franchise ( 2033 and First Light, respectively) for many, many moons so I very much appreciated the refresh of story and characters but I can imagine that series regulars may find the beginning of the game a little bit of a drag. It doesn’t take a lot of critical analysis to work out that in this he becomes successful in the opening of the game (hey, it's called 'exodus’ for a reason!) - but that doesn’t stop some fairly heavy exposition taking place in its opening hours. In Metro Exodus you take, once again, the role of protagonist Artyom in his quest to make contact with the outside world away from the Moscow Metro system from which the game takes its name from. Despite shedding its location and very namesake, Metro Exodus has lost nothing of what made the franchise so exciting and brilliant in the first place.Įven on lower powered machines, Metro Exodus looks effortlessly beautiful. Instead of artificially lit tunnel networks, where danger can lurk from any dark corner, we are now treated to wide open, natural, rural spaces where danger can, and will, come from literally anywhere. Trading the invasive and persistent claustrophobia of its predecessors for the anxious dread of agoraphobia was certainly a bold choice for 4A Games, but one that has utterly paid off. It is very much its own animal, with stunning graphics, heart-pounding survival mechanics and an exciting campaign laced with ample amounts of side quests allowing for hours upon hours of gameplay - a superb continuation of the series as a whole, but a fantastic and accessible starting point for newcomers alike.
Nothing says “F*** stealth” like saving your friends and wife from cannibals with a double-barrelled shotgun.īut thankfully, in practice, Metro Exodus is neither lazy nor derivative.
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