Metro Exodus 2019 sci-fi game

Ukrainian science fiction

Metro Exodus (2019, Ukraine)

2019Ukraine

Categories: alternate realityhorror science fictionmystery science fictionpost-apocalyptic realitysurvival science fiction2010s sci-fi

Artyom and his wife Anna join the crew of Aurora train as they travel east, hoping to find answers to their questions and to find a peaceful place to live. He is convinced that there must be a better place to live than the Moscow metro system, without the constant fights between factions, constant struggle for survival in the underground tunnels and constant danger from the mutants. While saving Anna, who was caught by Hansa, he accidentally stumbles upon a radio jamming station, which means that there could be survivors outside of Moscow, but there was no communication with them because of the jamming stations. Lieutenant Miller gathers the few Spartans that are still alive and decides to steal the Aurora train to flee Moscow.

First game of the series that takes the main characters out of the dark tunnels of metro system and sends them on a long trip down the tracks, in hope to find a better place to live. The title was advertised as "an open world" game, but it should have been put in quotes, because it is more open than in the previous games, but still not a fully living and breathing world that we know from titles like Fallout or Far Cry.

The game was improved when it comes to exploration (at least in the Volga chapter of the story), there are elements imported from Stalker games (weapon modifications, weather system, day / night cycle), there is also crafting of ammo and gas filters, which is a nice touch. There are bits, where you can choose a path to walk and just walk around the place, but... And here is where the problems start. The game is as linear as the previous ones were, the exploration opportunities are rather limited, the paths you can choose are still rather limited, some of the events are triggered by the player, not by the world logic.

The studio behind the Metro games have a hard time breaking with tradition that the games are very linear, their replayability is very low, there are loooong unskippable cutscenes, there are quick time events that are not that great and there is a really horrible narration style. For example, you keep getting caught or stripped of your equipment, long dialogues during which you have nothing to do, games does not signal when you take over control over your character or when you lose it. While it is better game than both previous titles (Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light), it does have elements of an open world, still it carries a lot of original mistakes in game development and most of the time you end up in dark corridors with only one way to get through to the next part of the game.

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