Metro Exodus puts you on a train journey through nuclear winter

Huw Beynon remembered doing a demo for me back in 2011, when Metro: Last Light debuted. And there was Deep Silver’s head of global brand management again when I recently played a demo of Metro Exodus, the third installment in the Metro game series that is coming from developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver in 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC.

The Metro series takes place in the wasteland of the Russian Federation, after a nuclear war with the U.S. in 2013. Based on the novel Metro 2033 by Dmitry Alexeevich Glukhovsky, the series is a high-end shooter experience where the goal is to survive. Mutated creatures dominate the outdoors, and humans were forced to live in underground bunkers and scavenge on the radioactive surface. But you have to deal with the demons, mutants, and tribal surviving humans as well. Metro Exodus has some snazzy graphics, and the build that I saw didn’t move fast, at something less than 30 frames per second. But it has a long way to go before launch.