Their personalities show through well and each of them is good company. There’s also a couple of boss battles against the aforementioned bear that, while rather bland in mechanics, shake up the tone of the whole segment and force you into open conflict.īetween missions you can also wander around the train, talking to Artyom’s companions. Picking paths off the forest floor and stealthily passing through enemy encampments by expertly slipping between patrols feels natural and well designed with the sneaky approach not really slowing gameplay as much as it does in the first two areas.
Its roars seem to come from everywhere and nowhere, the foliage and abundance of trees make it difficult to see very far even with vision enhancing night vision. Human enemies are less plentiful and a huge mutant bear stalks you and anything else through the wilderness. The third area, set in a heavily forested region, puts the mutants at the forefront.
Humans meanwhile are well established in this area building their huge camps on the backs of a subjugated local population. Demons and Watchmen still wander around but they’re far less prominent than the Volga region. Humanimals hide amongst the sand and sandstone walls expertly, often well enough that you can walk right up to one without noticing it. The second area, set in a desert, has the mutants mostly take a back seat to the human enemies. Large packs of Watchmen roam the world looking for their next hapless victim and abandoned buildings are often packed with dormant Humanimals just waiting for an idiot to stumble in and trigger their trap. Electrical anomalies light up the night, frying anything that comes near, and Demons prowl the skies. Of the open world areas the first, set on the banks of the Volga river, is probably the most interesting: a snowy hellscape with a large dilapidated church sitting in a mutant infested swamp and rail yards and factories making up the remainder. Main missions in the open-world areas will often have you venturing into bunkers or areas so that the structure of the mission takes on a more linear fashion as you make your way deeper into danger, often looping back around to the same door you came in by a lot worse for wear but having accomplished some important objective to keep the train moving towards your distant goal. Game progression follows a basic formula of open world areas book-ended by more traditional linear missions. At least in these instances the AI companions are mostly competent at defending themselves and will engage enemies eagerly. The story missions mostly throw out the aversion to killing once mutants are in play, often forcing you to battle them openly without much regard for conserving supplies. Many mutants can take a serious amount of punishment before going down so getting caught by a pack of Humanimals or Watchmen can quickly spell a hasty retreat after your bullets run out. Mutants on the other hand are a different matter: you can avoid them easily enough out in the open world but once you’re spotted you’re in for a pretty prolonged fight. Motivations for the factions aren’t always clear-cut, some are even rather likeable and you’re often encouraged not to kill out of hand both by the excellent writing and literally by characters saying it.
Making the above-ground more palatable is the hopeful mood of the characters they believe in the journey and want to see it succeed but there’s always trepidation about what’s down the track and choices often don’t work out as the crew expect.Īs best as I can explain without spoilers: the story is that Artyom, Anna, Miller, and a bunch of the other Spartans leave the Moscow metro stations aboard a stolen train after they discover a secret and set off across a Russia devastated by nuclear war and the resulting hungry mutants and bands of human survivors.
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From frozen corpses picked apart by mutants to streets full of abandoned civilian and military vehicles, there’s a weird kind of beauty in the desolation.
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For the first time it takes the series to more open levels and introduces more exploration and resource management than previous games but is it a step in the right direction or is 4A Games not paying attention to the Geiger counter? The TrialĮxodus wastes no time in setting up the tone right from the pre-rendered intro video you’re thrown into a world of surreal ruins. Metro Exodus is the third entry in the venerable Metro series of games inspired by Dmitri Glukhovski’s novels of the same name.
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