Metro, the single-player first-person post-apocalyptic shooter based on the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky, is headed to virtual reality headsets. Announced during the first State of Play of 2024, Metro Awakening is a new VR game that will arrive exclusively on the PlayStation VR2 in 2024.
This is the most recent entry to be announced in 4A Games' first-person shooter franchise, spawning four games, with the most recent release, Metro Exodus, released in 2019. In our review of Metro Exodus, which we gave an 8.5 out of 10, we said, "Metro Exodus brings its survival horror to the surface without sacrificing any of the series’ signature tension."
The announcement is not entirely surprising as series author Dmitry Glukhovsky revealed in an Instagram post in late 2019 that 4A Games was developing another game in the series; at the same time, some alluded it would be a direct sequel to Exodus; the post merely teased the gaming series would continue and that Glukhovsky was involved in the project.
4A Games would later confirm in a blog post in 2020 that a new game in the Metro universe was being developed. While the developer initially announced it was looking to tackle a multiplayer-focused Metro game, it also tempered expectations that there was no 100% guarantee that the next Metro game would be multiplayer-only, let alone a Metro game that offered both single and multiplayer experiences "in the same package."
As for the PSVR 2, Sony's peripheral has been quiet since launching last year. We'll see if Metro Awakening is able to give the device a shot in the arm. In the meantime, here's everything else announced during today's State of Play presentation.
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