Customer Ratings & Reviews

This video game would have received a five stars if the load times were quicker, but putting that aside it is a fun and consuming game. It is a bit full world ability to wander and explore a bit. I enjoy the graphics and the ability to modify my weapons. Try and be a bit conservative with your med kits and ammo, you might find youself in a fix and have to run like hell to get to safety. I have been playing for a few days, I may have about 15-20 hours into it. The length of this game is dependent on how much exploring for weapons and parts you do. It is a fun shooter, the Russian dialouge can be a bit funny at times. Enjoy.

Then you won’t have an issue with this sequel to Metro 2033. You’ll still be dealing with the clunky mechanics, bad voice acting, and “decent” storyline. Although, the level design has been expanded to a psuedo-open world where you’ll be in one large map at a time doing various side objectives alongside the main objective. Being able to explore the map and do other things besides main objective was enjoyable, but there were discrepancies. To be blunt, side missions were subpar, usually boiling down to “Go retrieve this” or “Go kill this”. Nothing very revolutionary, but I do commend them for changing up there linear storyline ideology and trying some new things. One thing that will irk anybody playing this game will be dealing with the LONG, and I mean LONG loading times. For every time you first load-up your save, you will be met with a similar loading screen to Metro 2033, with Artyom describing the mission, except this one will last about 2-4 minutes. Not to mention whenever you die the game reloads your last save and takes about 1 minute at the minimum to load back up. This would usually cause me to stop playing and come back to the game later as it would happen at a difficult part in the game where I’d have 2-3 deaths at a time... TL;DR: If you don’t mind the old buggy Metro 2033 gameplay with cheesy story, you will be fine with this game, just be prepared for crazy long load times.

First off, let’s take a minute to observe that the Metro series has, and most likely always will be, a series that’s success is built primarily on the cult following of players who’ve always had a deep love for what’s being offered with the franchise. But that’s not to say that each new entry hasn’t attempted to do something special that opens the door for new players. Not the gimmicky sort of special, but the kind that has charm and care in the details during creation - especially concerning the players immersion. 4A is by and large a AA developer, some could even consider them somewhat of an independent studio when it comes to their working conditions and team size. While this aspect definitely shows through at times in all of the Metro games, the series also operates on par with, and sometimes better than, big budget blowouts. Exodus is absolutely no different. Just like Last Light did previously, Exodus takes what came before and tries to refine the fat down, while also building upon the strengths of the series. And just like all other entries in the Metro series, Exodus releases to mixed reviews, and a somewhat bitter reception from all to the bugs that are all too familiar to a Metro release. For those new to the series: Metro is a narrative driven survival FPS, with an emphasis on SURVIVAL. While not Resident Evil, Dead Space, or The Last of us - Metro does embody elements from these sort of titles. But also brings to mind titles like Singularity, Fallout, and most importantly S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - post-apocalyptic, (mostly) stealth-driven shooters that are hellbent on immersing the player in the atmospheric wasteland, then challenging them to survive the world and it’s deadly inhabitants. Metro leans more towards the horror outings with its creature designs and dreadful tones. Previous Metro titles focused more on linear and claustrophobic levels, whereas Exodus allows the player to exit the confines of the Metro underground and explore semi-open world wastelands, each broken up by the four seasons, as well offering completely different environments. This isn’t to say the linear and claustrophobic environments aren’t still preserved. In fact, Exodus does a good job funneling it’s levels down into some intense areas that operate just like previous titles. The open environments still leave the player open for encounters out in the wild, these tend to feel a little less intense, and sometimes frustrating depending on the enemy behaviors. Human enemies can be rather dumb. And the creatures tend to be viscous and overbearing. Though these issues aren’t all encompassing of the game, nor do they really break immersion. Gunplay has never been priority in Metro, as opposed to the overall feel of the experience, but they do their job in feeling pretty good to shoot. Especially some of the more creative weapon build outs. Those who have played Metro Redux know the gunplay can feel comfortable and good, though that wasn’t always the case - and the same goes again with Exodus. The guns feel good and do their job, but the perfection of the aim falls apart at distances, and sometimes when playing stealthy. Some frustrations came from the lack of pulling off a headshot, even though you had the enemy lined up perfectly. This is an area I’d personally like to see patched up, and soon, as the guns are great and would be even better with precision. Players looking for action, twitch type gunplay will find themselves disappointed with Metro, as the series is focused on more concentrated and paced out scenarios - survival scenarios. This by and large plays into movement too. Metro is not creamy or crunchy, but more janky, like...Fallout, though with a better emphasis on gun control and button mapping. Speaking of movement, the character is definitely more of a tank - despite the sound design saying different - thus even running will make you feel like gravity is hugging you in it’s entirety. This is to translate the reality of the character to the player, and it definitely works. Right up until you take your feet off the trail and into the sticks - this is when movement gets a little sticky and the character hangs up on literally everything. Again, I get the immersion factor here, but in this case it’s absolutely breaking the immersion - a mechanic that should’ve been streamlined for the sake of optimization. Among all of Metro’s immersion mechanics, this is really the only one I felt could go far away and never come back. The rest I found to be alright, and far from the complaints of other reviewers. Many of which seem to come from lack of holding the players hand - something that opposing reviewers have knocked the game for. But by and large, most complaints that I see against the game are features overlooked by the player. As mentioned, Metro is a game that likes immersion, therefore HUD elements are greatly reduced to be non-existent, and instead incorporated onto the character - much like Dead Space. Most of these features are put on the wrist of the character in the form of watches/bands. Most importantly is the compass, which will always point you towards your waypoint. This is not given immediately, but instead a little later on after the tutorial period. Right from the start you will have a radiation gauge on your wrist, so you can monitor areas where a gas mask is needed. The map seems to be a tricky thing for some players, but fear not THERE IS A MAP, and the map does tell you what your main mission is if you flip it over. Main objectives are marked with a big X on the map, while side missions will show up as smaller (!) marks on the map - the player is absolutely free to approach what they want, however they desire - with only 1 or 2 being a little confusing at first. Side Missions will provide you with game-changing gear in some circumstances, so they’re worth doing, not to mention they’re nothing exhausting. Crafting is another fantastic addition that can be easily overlooked by both old and new players. Your backpack and crafting tables should be taken advantage of, especially if you’re a player that’s finding themself short of supplies or bullets. You can craft everything needed at these 2 places - the backpack is great for building a lot of survival supplies on the fly: health, air filters, ball bearing ammo, arrows, and other similar items to keep you going. And the tables will permit the player to get into deeper customizations and crafting. But most importantly is guns. You can pick up and put down any gun you comes across, as well as dissemble them for parts and ammo. Players can carry 2 guns and 1 specialty gun (I.E. Air Pressure gun or Crossbow) and all guns can be altered with parts found, or just to your heart’s content, straight out of the backpack. Overall, there’s a lot of greatness to be experienced in Metro Exodus, especially if you’re a fan of the series. A vast beautiful, and atmospheric game full of tense moments, as well as adventurous moments into the wild open environments to find crafting items and lore. The gameplay is great blend of survival and gunplay. It offers a stylistic blend of horror and post-apocalyptic sci-fi to immerse players in the story of Artyom and his family of merry misfits that have just emerged from the underground. Though it’s not to say the game comes without some shortcomings upon release. Hiccups and bugs are definitely present, though I personally haven’t experienced anything game breaking in my playthroughs...yet. Load times are a little too long, though as some have said - it’s mainly when booting the game up into the first gameplay of the day, or if you reset the game. The load times are a little shorter between deaths, though I’ve had a few bouts of waiting that were near 2 minutes, and that’s a little ridiculous in-between deaths. My biggest gripes are toward the lack of precision in gunplay/shooting, and getting hung up on the environment when exploring off the path. Those 2 really broke immersion for me and became frustrating at times - looking at you sticky environment. The gunplay issue can be compensated for once the player learns the guns, but it’s still something that’d really help if it were fixed. But knowing 4A Games is basically a AA developer with the skeleton framing of an independent studio, they’ve really done a fantastic job building a AAA experience, and hopefully with a little time we’ll see these minor issues with Exodus get tightened up properly for players in the fence waiting.

Prior to playing this game, I played the first two games and I loved them. Naturally, I had high expectations for Exodus and while it is a very good game, it does have its faults. Unlike the first two games which were very linear, this game decides to go more open world at times. In my opinion, these are the worst parts of the game as I really enjoyed the linearity of the first two as it helped me get immersed in the world and provided some good scares along the way and the open world levels don’t really capture that same feeling. Aside from those levels, the rest of the game is amazing in terms of story, characters and gameplay and these things are kept me entertained through my play time of this game. If you’re a fan of the first two, you’ll still like this one even though there are some annoying levels so I highly recommend it.

Far more open than the first two metro games. you can upgrade on the fly. I enjoyed the story and gameplay a little stealth and all out gunplay at times metro Exodus is a cool game and a cool story to experience! Really enjoyed the game! I give it a 9 out of 10

This series is underrated.... if it ain’t COD then it ain’t cool nowadays I guess. I’m old school and love some good single player games, red dead, Spider-Man, Metro etc... this game is so good and plays great, oh and I can’t forget to mention “THE 4K GRAPHICS ARE THE BEST lol. Sorry, had to fit in with the kids nowadays ha ha. But seriously get the game you won’t regret it, pretty intense and smooth gameplay with a stellar story!

This game isn't bad at all. But could use pointers to guide the player on the objective at hand like where to find certain items and what to do to progress the story. For instance on more than one occasion several to be exact I had to go on Youtube for help just to find out what to do to progress the story like find a generator to restore power to an elevator lift. Things like that and the unnecessarily long load times between maps make for a less than perfect score. The graphics and gameplay are solid though but sometimes the game is too confusing.

Metro Exodus is a much needed breath of fresh air for this generation of consoles. Other than DOOM and Wolfenstein, there really haven't been many high quality story driven, SINGLE PLAYER first person shooters. The structure of Metro Exodus really reminds me of CRYSIS 2 and 3. The game is inherently linear, but you are dropped into small post-apocalyptic sand boxes that you can explore as fast or as slow as you please. Also, you can customize your guns just like in CRYSIS, adding scopes or silencers to weapons to change them and fit the situation accordingly. To me, this game is meant to be played on harder difficulties and to also be played at a slower pace. If you are run n' gun type of player, you may not appreciate what Metro Exodus has to offer. The difficulty here works both ways and I love this about the game. On hardcore mode, you will die in a few shots or a well placed sniper shot will take you out in one hit, but the enemies will also go down just as fast. Put one round in an enemies unprotected head, or two to three shots to an unarmored chest and your (human) enemies drop like flies. Its extremely satisfying to kill enemies with well placed stealth shots and take downs and even when things go loud you can hold your ground if you are smart enough to run and keep moving so the enemies cant find you. The graphics are incredible and the fantastic lighting only makes things look even prettier. Your weapons are very detailed and feel as realistic as they could be in a post nuclear era. NPCs look moderate to great, their animation is kind of stiff and their faces don't display emotion very well, but it gets the job done. The mutants roaming the wasteland pose more of a threat at night time, and they are meant to be avoided when possible. I found myself sneaking around them or taking them out from far away with silent head shots. The game is not perfect though, sometimes your character will get stuck on things in the environment and he will slow down, I guess they added this for more realism, but its just kind of annoying. I also had a save bug where the game was not saving checkpoints or letting me use the quick save feature, so I just killed my character and reloaded and never saw the bug pop up again. The sensitivity settings for gun movement and aiming needed fine tuning when I first started playing, they felt really slow and slightly clunky, but after awhile I got used to them. An update with most if not all bugs addressed would really help this game, but overall a decent experience.

First off the game itself isn't that bad, up to personal preference though definitely not as good as the first two metro games, especially last light. Anyway the reason it is terrible and nearly unplayable is the bugs. There are so many bugs it should have been called Metro the Try Not to Die For No Reason Simulator. My first playthrough managed to finish the game despite several bugs that were very annoying but not gamebreaking (ie, enemies can see knocked out enemies in dark rooms through walls and floors, bullets and throwing knives will randomly go through enemies with no effect other than alerting them to your pressence, when driving if I pulled up the map the camera would change so i couldn't see where I was going until i got out of the van and back in again literally half the time, etc, etc, etc.. Now the nearly unplayable comes in for my second and third attempted playthroughs to get the bad ending and finish on ranger hardcore and iron mode. On ranger hardcore I had several of the same issues I had on my first playthrough, which were very detrimental considering there are no auto saves and you are at the mercy of the games horrible auto save feature which somehow made me lose half of my inventory on one and considering you must spend time scavenging for supplies without any autosave, at least in my experience, until you made it to your objective or a question mark on the map usually meant 20 or so minutes of scavenging wasted each time I died. Combine that with the fact that a 3 foot drop will kill you and running or walking, yes walking, will somehow launch you forward off of the stairs to the ground below and possibly your death. After about 4 hours of that I decided to wait on ranger hardcore and try out iron mode, which only has saves at the start of each mission, on a lower difficulty to get another playthrough under my belt and further familiarize myself with the game. I made it to the volga and got out of the church, got attacked by the catfish, got to the shore, started talking to duke and suffocated in fresh air, with my fully intact gas mask on and over 14 minutes worth of filters. I tried to change filters and nothing happened, I took off my mask and put it back on and tried to change filters again but I just died. I tried again, having to start at the beginning of the level, and was in the process of clearing out the church when I walked into one of the closed rooms where someone was behind a desk with a little candle on it and to save ammo I hit them with a melee attack and was burst into flames as I was instakilled by a little candle. I have no problem or issue with difficult games but if developers are going to put them in their games, well, the games need to work. This is a game that has been out for over a year. I have version 1.07 so it has had 7 patches. The developers released 2 dlcs and patched in a new difficulty without fixing the issues that make the high difficulties nearly impossible. The game never should have been released in its current state now let alone over a year ago in as hard as it is to believe a worse state than it is now. I was looking forward to this game but I think I may be done with metro an 4A and I really cannot understand the praise that I see for this game everywhere so I wanted to pass along my experience to try to save others the extreme disappointment that is this game. In closing I would like to expand on my answer to the question would I recommend this to a friend? No, I wouldn't recommend this game to my biggest enemy.

In light of the past Metro games, this takes it to a whole new level. This game looks fantastic on the Pro. Texture and immersion in environments is beautiful. Audio, especially gunfire is deep and powerful. I have played for approximately 5 hours and so far I'm hooked. Storyline brings old and new players into the game. I love the environments. Everything from dark corridors to open snow filled towns and deserts. in addition you can now craft ammo and items on the fly. Repairing still requires a workbench. You can also mod weapons. Which is a very cool and welcome feature. Although ammo is not in as short supply, you still have to conserve and be very conscious of supplies. All in all this a great game and worthy of buying!

I love this game as well as hate it. Love Post Apocalyptic games so this one is up my alley. Sadly it doesn't serve the Metro IP in any way shape or form. In fact it takes it away from the tunnels and in the process destroy the series identity. It's still a fun game and worth purchasing at $40 dollar. They took Fallout 4, mixed with with Rage, Far Cry 2, STALKER, threw in a dash of Metro and out came this game. Hopefully they can reboot the series into a Metroidvania of sort all inside the tunnels again. Get it.

Great story and game play , make you feel you are really there , ammo is a bit hard to find , but it’s a great game

Great graphics, story is entertaining, a couple of the characters voice acting is a bit meh, but that gets sorted out

Great game though it could use with a much longer story told. I've actually been meaning to write a decent review for this game though since I haven't had time I couldn't do so but even know I'm going to be doing a full play through whenever an update comes for next gen. The world is top of the line, survival isn't fully in this game but the gun play and the way characters motives are driven are worth your time.

A very good game that plays well. Lots of fun and is not to difficult to play through.

Metro Exodus opens up a world held closed by its predecessors. This time, it's up to our well-known hero Artyom to explore the unexplored regions of Mother Russia, in all of its open-world glory. So sit back and enjoy the unique experience, visual wonders and darkest secrets of the beloved Metro universe.

Graphics are almost lifelike. Frightening story and amazing atmosphere.

I played this on the PS4 pro. I've never played other Metro games and this game stands alone by itself just fine. Incredible characters, story and game play. I skipped out on Fallout 76 (thankfully), I skipped the resident evil remaster, and I skipped the 1st person battlefield and COD shooters. This game fills the void of these games perfectly. No microtransactions, just a solid, fun, anxiety ridden lol game. GOTY contender for me.

This is such a steal. This feels like a top teir game and if for like 1/3 of price (FYI Best Buy has a better price than the PSN Store). It has a great mix of level linearity with open world exploration. I did notice some bugs when I first started playing but since I updated to the newesest version I havent noticed anything (beware its like a 50gb download if I remember right).

The story is great, the atmosphere is astounding and gameplay holds up