Deus ex machina at its finest, although at least said location containing the medicine is known for its medical facilities.īesides this last plot point relying too much on deus ex machina, another noteworthy, and much bigger flaw in the game’s writing is Artyom being a silent protagonist. The initial goal is to survive and make contact with what remains of the Russian government, before the goal shifts to looking for a new home to settle in, and finally it becomes a rescue mission as one of your crew members becomes fatally ill and one of your team members happens to know the precise location of where to find prototype medicine with seemingly divine healing capabilities to save them. Now she is suddenly the utmost loving, adoring wife. In Last Light she’s a hard-ass, not willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and talking down to you the entire time. On that note, Anna’s character is inconsistent in Exodus. You once again assume the role of Artyom, part of a team that includes other members of the “Spartan Rangers” (a Polis military force comprised of former soldiers and special forces operatives in the games, quite different than “The Order” from the books which this is loosely based on) including Artyom’s wife Anna, a character from Metro: Last Light, and the head honcho Miller, Anna’s father and a character in every Metro game. It is quite the broad adventure, far and wide and filled with ups and downs. You leave Moscow although by the end of the game, you return to some place similar but even worse.
They are close in size to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.’s larger maps, a game people like to compare to Metro and a game with similar heritage (with Metro being developed by some former S.T.A.L.K.E.R. These two large maps, Volga and Caspian, are set outdoors it’s still winter in the former while the latter is a desert. General story advancement is still linear new areas are unlocked in linear fashion, one at a time, but now Metro Exodus features two particularly large, non-linear maps, with the rest of the maps being smaller and more linear than these. In terms of environments, Exodus opens in an area more like Metro: Last Light and ends in an area like you’d find in Metro 2033.īecause of these changes, Metro Exodus is no longer a strictly linear FPS. No longer will all outdoor areas look like this in Metro Exodus. Though it would’ve been interesting to see a Metro 2035 video game adaptation (as well as a more direct Metro 2033 adaptation), it looks like that was never meant to be. And for book fans, it barely takes after Metro 2035 in this regard. We won’t spoil why you leave in Exodus, but you do. The previous games, Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, take place in the Metro.
The name gives it away it is an exodus, a departure from the Metro, referring to the Moscow subway system in which Moscow’s population took shelter during a nuclear war that ended civilization worldwide. More specifically, the first hour of the game is a loose adaptation of the beginning and near the end of Metro 2035, with the rest of Exodus acting as a sort of fan sequel to Metro 2035. Metro Exodus is loosely (and really just in part) based on Metro 2035, sequel to Metro 2033, novels written by Dmitry Glukhovsky. Launch controversy aside, Metro Exodus represents a significant departure to the franchise norms.
Remember, don’t allow yourself to be cheated, or else it will continue to happen and only get worse. The same cannot be said for other studios however. Metro Exodus being a one year timed exclusive for Epic Games came as a surprise, but at least 4A Games and Deep Silver honored all preorders, so we shouldn’t go too hard on them for this. That is what we have to say about this review being late, and I suppose that is what 4A Games will have to say by the time Metro Exodus arrives on PC storefronts other than the Epic Games Score a year after the game’s launch.
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