Metro Exodus hands-on — a new journey into the apocalypse

Metro Exodus breaks out of the darkness of the underground existence of the previous two games in the series. But the third game in the Metro series from developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver isn’t exactly set in paradise. You merely get to go above ground, take a train into the wilderness, and discover what is left of the world after a nuclear winter.

Metro Exodus is a first-person shooter that takes place in a bleak, snowy landscape in the former Russian Federation, which experienced obliteration in the Metro fiction in 2013 after a nuclear war with the U.S. The game’s 3D graphics are beautiful, but it’s a little sad that it is all in service of recreating such a dreary place where humans are barely surviving against mutated creatures and other malicious people.