Metro Exodus

First of all. I've been reading alot of hateful comments on the internet towards 4A games and Metro Exodus. Alot of these comments are about the fact that Koch Media and Deep Silver pulled the game of Steam on the very last moment before it's release and made a time exclusive title for the Epic Store. I don't find this a just reason to publicly destroy the game itself. This was a publisher descision and let's leave it at that. People who want to play this game, just buy it on the Epic Store and play it. Seriously, it's worth it!

I haven't being experiencing alot of problems with the game itself. It did hitch up several times when I tried to leave to game, but no harm done. These are minor bugs that can and most likely will be dealt with soon. Again, not a valid reason to destroy this game in my opinion.

The graphics of this game are amazing! It's a visual masterpiece! The amount of detail in the game world itself is just breathtaking! And every new area you go to aboard the Aurora, shows the power of this engine and the talent behind this game. No wonder they've spent years making this game! And to be honest, it's been worth the wait! Hopefully they put as much time and work in the fourth game, which I'm sure of, will come! This world has many more stories to tell, I can feel it!

Artyom is again the big hero in this game and this becomes more clear towards the end of the story. Many more characters are introduced in the storyline and most of these will see it through to the next chapter, I'm sure of it!

The backpack! What a innovative way of allowing the gamer to customize Artyom's gear! Upgrading and cleaning your weapons and gear. Crafting healthkits, filters, ammo and so on! The customization options are plentyfull. They give you the chance to play the game as you want. You want to play stealthy, you can. You want to go in guns blazing, you sure as hell can! And this backpack gives you that freedom!

Later in the game you have to micro manage alot of this. Keeping your flashlight charged, Switching filters of your gasmask, or making sure your weapon is fully charged! At certain points, just managing this means to survive becomes nerfwrecking, while being on the lookout for scary mutated beasts who will surely attack on sight!

I've said that the game world looks amazing! A beauty! I love the fact they let you play through the seasons of the year, aswell as on different locations spread out over the vastness of apocalyptic Russia! And this is all made possible with the Aurora! A powerfull sovjet relic, or big ass old train locomotive! Along the way you go on the search for a wagon to live in and upgrades for the train itself! So this beast of a machine changes over the course of the game. Again a nice twist to the game.

I can keep rambling on about the quality of this product. But just go ahead and play it! No matter of your a fan of the series or not, this game will get you hooked! Just make sure you don't run out of supplies soldier!

Over and out!

One of the Best Games I've ever played. This game is very immersive with Great Story and Insane Graphics

In terms of aesthetics, which was achieved, inclusively, by using the latest technology, the game is impressive. For example, ray tracing, used in Metro Exodus is the first full application of this technology. This gives the game both realism (it turns out that light plays a leading role not only in the physical architecture, but also in the virtual one) and beauty. The change of day and night, sunrise and sunset, the change of seasons - winter-spring-summer-autumn, blizzards, rain and sandstorms, the smoke of a locomotive - the visual effects are of extremely high quality.

The visual aesthetics of the game is accompanied with the beautiful music by Oleksiy Omelchuk ("Race Against Fate", sounding in one of the scenes in Novosibirsk, as well as guitar solos will definitely be remembered by fans of good music), the developers' attention to the small details and the general atmosphere.

The gameplay is slow, but fascinating and requires concentration. The game has a lot of text and dialogue, the disclosure of characters occurs through long monologues, actions and descriptions in the diary. The romantic line is not realized through the "classic" stereotypical "conquer the girl" nonsense, which is so fed up both in the movies and in games, but through showing main character's married life, his relationship with his wife Anna. Something similar to what Lewis described as "family romance" in English literature of the Victorian era.

Among the shortcomings are imperfect face animation as well as the fact that the game is rather short and does not have a gameplay "after-play".

In general, Metro Exodus is one of the few games that deserve attention. It has interesting gameplay, story, characters, semantic load and meaning layers, as well as aesthetics - visual and musical.

The narrative and story is great, the factions you meet upon Artyom's journey is interesting but with the lack of side quests it felt like there was too little action with the factions, making us wanting more of them. The stuff we did get was simply great. The baron in the desert part felt like a good villain but ended up being dealt with too fast. The forest map was my favorite as it felt realistic and a lord of the flies vibe to it which I liked. The Dead City had some serious Metro 2033 vibes which I loved, exploring a hunted metro is what made the predecessors great as the atmosphere was something we had never seen in a game before and they succeeded in creating something new with the outside world, making all the factions different and interesting whilst keeping the tone the same. All chapters were outstanding, getting everything right. The Volga, Yamantau, The Taiga and The Dead City were superb. The Caspian was the only chapter I felt wasn't as high quality but it was still needed and entertaining to play through. Superb game.

Overall the game needed some side quests but we might get some good story DLCs like in the previous installment. They did a marvelous job at creating well written and likeable characters and giving more attention to the returning characters, making them perfect. All characters that you come across are different and great. I played the game like you were supposed to, killing almost no one and I managed to get the good ending which I loved and I don't want to spoil anything but there might be a sequel in the near future? Would be awesome.

This game brought the spirit of metro to the farthest places from Moscow the story is amazing, the combat can be fast paced or slow depending on how you play, and the stealth is satisfying, my only complaint is that it's much easier then the previous games I'd suggest you play on normal or hardcore if you've played any of the previous games.