Metro Exodus Heads to the Surface
A new trailer for Metro Exodus premiered at Microsoft’s E3 conference today. Developed by 4A games, the game is similar to its forerunners in the Metro series in that it’s a first-person shooting survival horror game set in post-apocalyptic Russia. But this time around, it’s set aboveground and places a focus on non-linear game design.
At last year’s E3, the game’s executive producer Jon Bloch spoke in detail on the game.
“Yeah, so the game picks up where Metro: Last Light left off with the good ending,” he said. “Artyom is back and now he needs to join together with a small group of survivors and board a train and escape Moscow. He goes on an epic journey that spans the continent and goes across post-apocalyptic Russia. The whole journey takes about a year and we get to see all the seasons in the year and we get to see that journey and how the time and everything that happens along the way affects the characters and how the characters change.”
“Players will get to explore the world outside of the Moscow Metro which is pretty much where the last two games have exclusively taken place—underground,” he continued. “We’ve gone above ground a little bit in previous games but that’s going to be a lot of more of that in this next game.”
“We’re doing this mix of classic gameplay and this new non-linear style and we wanted to maintain what our fans expect, what they’ve known, and what they’re used to and love, while also introducing something new that is blending of what we’ve done over the past two games and plus something that the core team at 4A Games has done in the past with the Stalker games.”
Metro Exodus is set to release on February 22, 2019 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows.