Metro Exodus

This is the third game in the franchise and I bought the entire metro collection and played all the three games for the first time, and OH BOY.... what an amazing franchise I had to chance to experience.... <3 I was previously a fallout fan but since bethesda took such terrible decissions with 76 and ethical choices a companY I was a little sad because I really enjoyed that sense of apocalyptic world with story telling that I didn't found anywhere else, but I never really heard about metro before and with the release of the " PC ENHANCED EDITION" and my new PC I said like: yeah why not? let's try it out, and oh boy what an amazing experience. Taking account that I played all 3 games in literally 2 weeks is insane, since 2033 I completely fell in love with the franchise, is such a grounded world with it's setting and world building, the art style of the previous games reamain intact with exodus and it just makes everything else look higher quality and is amazing, all the environments looks insanely realistic and beautiful, all the places where you go with your crew just look gorgeous... The story starts with the hopeless dream that every person in the metro has in the post apocalyptic Russia, a way to find a better place for our loved ones... away from that chaotic faction war, the lack of a proper air source to breathe and finally be free from that concrete sky. That is the premise of this game, unlike the other metro games, there's is not a main villain, someone to blame or something like that, the main objective is to explore the unknown frontiers that are ahead of us , to discover what happenned to the rest of the world after the war, to see how the people survived all this time and how they have evolved, and I think that that's the main plot about this game the people and it's world, your family and taking care of them while you explore the remains of the previous land known as Russia... It's a fascinating world and I cannot recommend it enough.

First thing I loved the most : the story is very engaging. You are fighting for your wife and for your friends/second family. The characters are likable and that's why protecting/saving them is an incredibly good goal. It makes what you do feel important and urgent. The story makes sense, mostly. Not a masterpiece but efficient. Then, it's very immersive. However it's graphics, music, sound effects, the game is a jewel and the world surrounding you feels very real, either loving (sometimes), dangerous (most of the times) and scary(not often but you'll love it ;) ). The fact that the story takes place on the many steps of a train journey justify multiple changes of environnment which are refreshing, even if I was completely in love with the ruins of Moscow. Shooting sensations are good, movements are not clunky, good variety of weapons and I liked seing my arsenal improve over time. Finally, I'm simping super hard for my sexy-sniper-russian-wife.

With the RTX-ready "Enhanced Edition" released this year I'm certain this must be the best game released this year! The decision to move the setting out of the Metro underground really allowed the developers to create a whole new experience and stunning visuals while still keeping the tense gameplay. The story focuses on humanity and cruelty in a post-apocalyptic world. For me this game is a must-play!

I have now one playthrough of this game (enhanced edition) under my belt. I played on Ranger-Hardcore all HUD Elements disabled. Sadly i had to push myself through this game, especially towards the end. This is a linear, cinematic game with some openworld sections threwn into it. I must say the openworld sections were a lot of fun to play but the linear sections suffer the same problems you had in the first and second installment of this franchise. NPC that walk really slowly and won't shut up about clearly obvious stuff whilst hindering your progress because artyom seems to have a selective phobia of doors, so your annoying npc compagnion has to open it for you. but that ain't the worst part. Awesome, big and scary, mutant grizzly bear: Killed in a cutscene. The comicly evil douchebag, who made your stay in the desert an absolute shitshow and who is keeping slaves and is beating and executing them for the crime of merely existing: Killed in a cutscene. You get the drill. Despite my super duper hardcore playthrough i never had the feeling that i was challenged. There were only 2 occasions where i felt "challenged" and that was because of bad map design, combined with an assault of hitscan enemies or the geometry not working properly. It seems that sometimes your body can clip slightly through cover. Also the story is way to drawn out, melodramatic, uninteresting and of course you discover the promised land you sought after the last 20 hours, you guessed it, in a cutscene. No one last open map, where you discover and conquer your new home. You kill a librarian in a cutscene, back on the train, almost die in a cutscene, then boom, a few hundred kilometers further, welcome home, game is over, go away now. So for the positves. The guns are as always very imaginative and have a thounderous sound and impact. The graphics are very atmospheric and beautiful. The business model is fair. This game is always so close to good but then misses the mark, it's a bit sad really.

Great game all the way to the desser chapter and then it is game over. Lighthouse bug, that has been in the game since forever (reading through yers old forum posts) and somehow was not fixed??!! Had to restart the whole chapter and on the second try the game just freezes befere I can even get to that deamn thing, how is this even being sold?!! (Ryzen 7600, RTX 3070, 32GB RAM).