METRO EXODUS (2019)

“WAKE UP FROM ICE-COLD DREAMS”

Mastering the art of combat is not enough for this game. You need a little bit more than FPS skills to deal with real situations with the very mature logic of game programming. Every bullet counts, every checkpoint will need a proper assessment of the situation and plans to go through it. If you die, the plan might keep changing until you give up or come up with a plan. Running, being silent or stalking are additional skills on top of combat sometimes. You will be instructed to use the jump button when you run which will help you to run faster. The filter of the gas mask will ring just at the moment of serious combat but won’t actually bother you like the first two parts of the metro. Specifically, when you leave Moscow, radiation will be a bit flexible in the villages. Medicare has real scarcity I would say; wound doesn't heal completely until you take the medicare. Mutants are expensive to kill sometimes. I acquired the train at Moscow in stalk mode mostly but struggled a bit to find cover from the turntable room. The whole game is designed to struggle with securing cover when you fight and expects you to be a bit aggressive in some places or totally silent. any wrong entrance or wrong forwarding will cost you excessive Medicare. Will face the problem with the supply of ammo when you’ll be aggressive. As I said, you will need more than FPS skills of body movement, aiming and covering in the situation of combat. A world-class army backpack will be provided by the Russian army, so just have to be a bit active to pick up scraps on your way. Don't forget to sleep at night and assemble supplies. Remember the fact that you must learn to pick up ammo killing enemies most of the time in this game. Don't forget to scrap the guns of enemies to use them, change guns when you can't clean them, best to keep a shotgun and one rifle with a monocular which is removable. KTEHER rifle doesn’t work most of the time. Puzzle is extreme in the terminal in the Volga, the satellite bunker in Caspian. One wrong turn will put you in the limbo of death over and over. I will recommend checking the terminal on YouTube from people who solved the puzzle because there is no map of the place in the game. Had a key to use in the terminal appeared to be fun probably with night vision. Removing the barricade after capturing the supply ships from the port was really tempting but not exactly hardcore until reaching the bunker of institutionalised psychos. Perfect music and perfect setup for hardcore fighting best parts to enjoy. Most oddly Psychos will hold up your gun other than killing you. the last puzzle was to pick up the vaccine for Anna. lucky that it was possible to flee from gorilla-size mutants. Enjoyed killing two of these earlier with fire, knife, shotgun, and bow whatsoever I had. Wasn’t exactly killed them I believe. Two genuinely world-class combats I would say in Baron's stronghold and at the end of Jangle. Had to kill a bunch of pirates to get a boat at the end. 

Caspian is a bit relaxed but puzzled. Picked up the satellite map mostly using a flashlight to kill insects. Got a car I believe the worst car you will drive in gaming history.

STORY :

After the nuclear war, 50k ppl were stuck in the metro of Moscow, believing they were only alive except Artyom who was looking for signs of ppl. Finally, the truth was revealed in a betrayal moment with ruling army commanders. Miller, his daughter ANNA, her husband Artyom and some other crews left Moscow with the stolen train AURORA to look for a place where they can start a new life. 20 years has been passed so far but the radiation level is not calmed yet. Train engineer YERMAK helped steal ARRORA and then joined the crew. From radio transmission, ppl started believing government still exists in the YAMANTAU bunker where the crew was heading. People also believed war was still running and there could be Occupation Army everywhere. 

Crossing VOLGA become impossible for a Fanatic barricade in the bridge. Fanatic Sylunsious started spreading the word that electricity was a sin, and technology was a sin in the Volga villages. Another train engineer KRIST, KATYA & NASTYA (woman with 6yo daughters) joined the crew in VOLGA. Picking up KRIST’s rail with a big rail car the team finally leave VOLGA destroying the fanatic barricade. ANNA fell into a nuclear dump and picked up serious lung injuries from radiation. DUKE dies making way for Artyom and AURORA to YAMANTAU. Finally, they travel to the YAMANTAU bunker.

In the bunker, ppl were eating humans for the past 20 years claiming to be government which was sending a radio signal to gather people in their bunker to eat. Miller reached the bunker with Artyom, Anna and three other crews leaving others in the AURORA. Luckily Miller entered the bunker with Artyom and Anna only leaving three others outside. They were captured and about to be eaten then freed by three others who were waiting outside. Then they save Anna and destroy the bunker and leave with info from the bunker. 

Now they headed to the CASPIAN comm centre which survived the war to get a satellite map for radiation so that they can find an inhabitable place to start living again. Finally, the dream of Artyom was going somewhere. AURORA was out of water and fuel. After collecting the satellite map from the comm centre with the help of GIUL, Artyom, DAMIR and GIUL attack Baron's penthouse to drive away oil car from his oil mine. Water was collected with a similar attack in Baron's water mine with the help of one crew member DAMIR. Artyom attacked Baron’s shipwreck and other businesses run by Slavery. DAMIR stays with GIUL to free his people from slavery in CASPIAN. 

Finally, the team expected to live in the TAIGA Vally but didn’t work out in the end. The dam won’t hold up radiated water for long. KATYA married STEPON on their way to TAIGA on the train. ANNA revealed a tragic truth on the day of the wedding on the train. ANNA was dying from a lung infection from the nuclear dump she fell into in VOLGA. KATYA recommended that the vaccine was available in the dead city. Miller decided to go there after exploring the Vally if they could settle there. Alyosha and Artyom went to explore the VALLEY with a rail car fell into the water on a broken railway and then rescued by “child of the jungle” OLGA. They were separated and lost in the jungle totally. Mission dragged Artyom into fighting with the master of the jungle then he reached a church to meet OLGA for instruction to find Alyosha. Artyom picked up the boat from the pirate's camp after a long fight and then reached to Alyosha at the dam through a road of nightmares. Alyosha was in love with OLGA what he was describing to Artyom when they finally met. Artyom fought with a gorilla-size mutant and joined back to their team in the AURORA. OLGA refused Alyosha as Artyom had to kill some people of OLGA in the jungle to survive. Alyosha got injured by pirates when they were leaving the Vally. 

Artyom decided to go to the dead city to save Anna with the help of Miller. They went through severe fights with mutants and then met the Kid KIRILL. KIRILL gives two radioactive injections to them to survive in the dead city where radiation was 8 times higher than in Moscow. KIRILL’s father left him with injections in the metro. Artyom went through a series of traumatic sequences to reach the vaccine and picked it up for Anna. He was alive just with the help of the injection from KIRILL. Miller found Artyom when he was almost dying so Miller gave away his radioactive injection to Artyom to save his life. Artyom & Kirill drove their way back to AURORA having Miller dead in the car. It was really a bad idea to go to the dead city to collect the vaccine but it was the only way to save ANNA. However, a child was rescued by the AURORA at least probably the last person who was alive in the dead city.