Metro exodus flees the underground and finds a violent wasteland.
Oh shit, a bear! I see It for the first time In a forest, silhouetted In moonlight. It scares away a pack of wolves with a roar, and then crosses the road to reveal Its massive, mutated bulk. It could eat a pickup truck. It vanIshes Into the trees, and I realIze that I’m about to go In after It...
There was a mutant bear in Metro: Last Light too, but this one is much bigger. In fact, everything about Exodus feels bigger. The game is moving out of the underground and into the wilderness on a four-season journey into the east. The forest this bear lives in is a wide corridor, full of squirrelly little side paths and elevated networks of wooden pathways. As I move up into the canopy, I hear the bear roar, not too far off, and then a crackle of rifle fire.
In the moment it’s tense. I spend the rest of the zone crawling through the dark and trying to escape the bear’s attention. However when I repeat the area a few times the sounds play out the same way regardless, and no matter how much I explore I can’t find the shooter or the bear until later when the creature shows up in a cutscene.
Metro Exodus is an odd hybrid. Sometimes it’s a claustrophobic corridor shooter like the first two games, sometimes it opens up into wide sandbox areas, and sometimes it’s an amalgamation of the two, combining exploration with the sort of smoke-and-mirrors trickery you find in a linear story-driven shooter.
This forested area does a good job of suspending my disbelief for the first playthrough. I happen upon some secrets hidden down side paths, and always end up moving organically to the next section. On repeat runs I notice the way the game is shepherding me into a zipline or cave trail that serve as area transitions.
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