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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 34.4 hrs on record
Posted: 14 Feb, 2020 @ 6:58am
Updated: 15 Feb, 2020 @ 5:00am

I could never finish it.

Game starts off amazing, but then falls flat really fast with gameplay of metro that was never suited for open world.

In addition story is both good and bad. As a standalone, it has really good story, as a metro game: Awful. I get its based on metro 2035, but I just can't recommend it. If you've played metro 2033 and last light: I don't think this game is gonna make experience better, in fact it can destroy what previous games have built just in opening minutes of it.

If you've never played these games however, go and do.

Metro exodus is still a GOOD game... however its a awful metro that falls flat really fast, in both, gameplay and story. I was so pumped to play this game, opening levels in moscow were awesome, volga was climatic as hell, then yamantau was pretty alright, felt simmilar to old metros, and caspian is where it falls flat and I have completely no motivation to play anymore. Then taiga was a complete chore to play through and I just couldn't attempt to try and finish it by this point. And I tried to replay the game nearly 3 times now. And since I got it in pre-order, I had 1 year ahead of people to do so. I just can't recommend it for fans of metro series.
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QQ 17 Feb, 2020 @ 8:09am 
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nadata 16 Feb, 2020 @ 5:17am 
I've played every game in the series and really looked forward to this one, but didn't buy it once they pulled the pre-orders from steam. Played all the s.t.a.l.k.e.r. games and the anomaly mod for them in the mean time so that could be why I didn't like exodus-- but I finally played it on xbox game pass (pc) for $1 and it wasn't bad, it just felt mediocre.

The pseudo open-world style did not fit well and looting felt pointless with generic scrap and ammo (although actual upgrades are here and there). I still think the first game is the best with last light being good as well, just short. Without spoiling, the endings aren't memorable and I already had to look them up even though I just played the game a month or two ago... The voice acting is also very confusing. First game or two, I get it, maybe you hired some randos to do the english VO-- but this one has some really bad moments of everyone using different pronunciations and talking over each other with bad audio cues.
Seethe 15 Feb, 2020 @ 4:12pm 
@WagonFullOffCarpet2394 Piss off fanboy. You have multiple VAC bans on your account. You should not even be allowed on Steam.
Tarik Torgaddon 15 Feb, 2020 @ 3:20pm 
I couldn't agree more with this review. I actually found myself getting more angry and frustrated with this one than with the two previous games combined. You should try keep playing it to the last part though because then you actually go to a freaking Metro, which is extremely similar to the other games.
Wulfgraar 15 Feb, 2020 @ 2:33pm 
idk, I'm a big fan of the first 2 games and I love this one just as much, finished it 2 times, one back when it released and now doing different stuff so I can play the dlcs.
EmanGameplay 15 Feb, 2020 @ 2:30pm 
I'm sorry, I just don't see it.
ˆMeika 15 Feb, 2020 @ 1:19pm 
Eman, while that could certainly be true the team behind the game have absolutely no idea what they're doing in an open world environment or how to keep narrative focus in such a setting. You can see this in the amount of exposition given whereas prior games have all been "show, don't tell" for the most part.

It's exceptionally jarring when you go back to Novosibirsk and suddenly you have all this "show don't tell" attitude return the moment you're in a claustrophobic environment the developers are familiar with.

This is a good game, but it has a lot of issues baked into the narrative and the control of that itself. It loses track of what sort of game has been up to this point nearly throughout the whole of the experience.

It attempts to do what STALKER did, but ends up losing sight of what METRO can do.
EmanGameplay 15 Feb, 2020 @ 1:01pm 
VValkyr, you should probably understand one thing: if Metro just stays in the tunnels alone its never going to change to reach its full potential.

One of the best aspects of Last Light were the areas of the game that gave you free-reign to navigate through them. The Marshes in Metro Last Light after you leave Venice is a great example of this. The open world zones of Exodus is taking that setup and expanding it immensely, to the game's benefit.

On top of that, there are still plenty of scenarios in the game that very much represent what Metro is supposed to be. The Volga Trainyard with the Tzar Fish, the communications bunker in the Caspian desert, almost the entire Taiga Forest, and all of Novosibirsk are very atmospheric and examples of exactly what Metro is known for. Not to even mention how good the dynamic weather system adds to each of the locations that have it. The heavy torrential downpours and Sandstorms really improved the sense of hostility in the world.
spoons 15 Feb, 2020 @ 12:24pm 
I feel the same, I played it on the game pass. I stopped playing it for a few weeks and just went back to finish it even though I want really bothered. It was a decent game but not as good as the others.
R A Z E R 15 Feb, 2020 @ 11:30am 
@Wagon, Should we listen to a nobody that has nothing to add up except trolling.