To mark the fifth anniversary of essentially the most glorious post-apocalyptic shooter Metro Exodus, developer 4A Video games introduced at this time that it has now offered greater than 10 million copies, and teased—very gently—the arrival of the following sport within the sequence.
Metro Exodus was a significant departure from the primary two video games within the sequence, 2033 and Final Mild. It begins within the rotten Metro tunnels beneath Moscow however shortly strikes out into an unexpectedly liveable, verdant overworld, and a formidable mix of gameplay starting from open-world exploration to tightly scripted horror. Regardless of that change in strategy, it labored very well as each a big-budget shooter and a becoming coda to the adventures of Artyom and his Spartan friends.
As conclusive as Metro Exodus is, I stay looking forward to extra, and so I used to be a bit of let down when Metro Awakening was revealed on the Sony State of Play showcase in January. It is a VR sport and, effectively, I haven’t got VR stuff—and whereas having goggles wrapped round your face will little question make for some good leap scares, the character of VR is a bit of limiting for a full-on Metro expertise.
Writer Plaion additionally famous within the announcement, nonetheless, that “the following mainline installment of the Metro sequence” remains to be in improvement at 4A Video games (Metro Awakening is being made by VR studio Vertigo Video games), and at this time the studio was a bit of extra on-point about it, though not terribly informative.
“Metro Exodus turns 5 years outdated at this time, and has now offered over 10 million copies,” the official Metro account tweeted. “Metro will return in VR with Metro Awakening from Vertigo Video games in 2024—and the following mainline Metro from 4A Video games… When it’s prepared. Thanks for approaching the journey to this point with us.”
The message was accompanied by a bit of Metro-style map, starting Metro 2033 in 2010 and ending with an enormous “M” in 202oh come on!
In a follow-up tweet, the studio stated “we cannot be saying any greater than that for now,” however—and it is fairly potential I am studying an excessive amount of into it right here, however—this tease feels to me like 4A is getting near on the point of begin revealing no less than a bit of one thing about the place the following Metro sport is likely to be headed. In spite of everything, hype cycles are sometimes quite a bit like trains: You do not go to the difficulty of beginning one up except you are planning to go someplace with it. Is my optimism pushed by my eagerness? Fairly presumably, however at this level I am going to take what I can get.
If you have not but tried any or the entire Metro video games and need give them a shot on a budget, GOG has all of them on sale proper now: The Redux editions of Metro 2033 and Metro: Final Mild are each 90% off, making them simply $2 every, whereas Metro Exodus Enhanced is $6, 80% off the common value. The DLC is on sale too.
And now, let’s take a second to understand a bunch of Russian hard-asses getting in contact with their delicate sides.
