Game news This creepy FPS returns to PS5, but not necessarily as you expected!
Adapted from a Russian novel, the video game saga Metro has kept its audience in suspense for years, but it has now been a while since it offered anything: rest assured, it still has something up its sleeve and has just come just to unveil its next offspring, which will be… a game planned for the PlayStation VR2 (and not only that).
Line 13, even worse
It was in 2005 that Dmitri Gloukhovski published Metro 2033, a science fiction novel in which the Russian population takes refuge in the depths of the metro to survive nuclear Armageddon. Quickly experiencing great success throughout Eastern Europe (and in Russia, obviously), it then attracted the attention of the Polish studio 4A Games, who decided to adapt it in a first video game, Metro 2033, in 2010. And for once, the FPS allows the franchise to export internationally and experience unprecedented growth.
It must be said that the developers have found an effective formula: infiltration, action, an oppressive and often horrific atmosphere and first-class plastic to stage the adventures of Artyom, the poor unfortunate who serves as the protagonist. A cocktail that will be tasted by millions of people, described as extremely profitable by THQ, which was then its publisher.
Obviously, 4A Games was not going to let its baby stop there and therefore laid two sequels, Metro Last Light in 2013 and Metro Exodus in 2019, all very successful. But it’s now been five years since we’ve had any news from the brand… well, that was without counting the State of Play which took place last night.
Metro Awakening officially on track
It is therefore a fourth Metro game which was revealed during the Sony show and this one is called Metro Awakening: don’t really expect a “Metro 4”, but rather a spin-off since this one will be a game exclusively playable in virtual reality and only via the PSVR2 of the PlayStation 5, the MetaQuest 2 and 3 as well as other VR headsets on PC. However, rest assured: it seems to be a big-budget and particularly polished game and not a small experience to be completed in no time. Well, a priori.
For once, the first trailer revealed suggests real inspirations from a certain Half-Life Alyx, after all the great reference of what a VR game should be : the technique of the game seems polished, the atmosphere gripping and the narrative aspect supported (we will notably play Serdar, a doctor and new hero in the saga in search of his missing wife). A real dive into hell in the Russian subways, where various human factions and other ruthless creatures sit.
Important information: it’s not 4A Games who is on the scene, but Vertigo Gamesa studio which has made virtual reality its raw material and to which we owe Arizona Sunshine 2, After the Fall and The 7th Guest VR. Deep Silver is also involved as a publisher, while Dmitri Glukhovsky, the Russian author behind the original literary work, also got involved in the project.
A great weapon for VR and especially for PlayStation VR2, released almost a year ago now and which has proven to be rather discreet despite some nice exclusives : Horizon Call of the Mountain, Gran Turismo 7, Resident Evil Village or even Resident Evil 4 are for example available there with monstrous efficiency.
For once, Metro Awakening does not yet have a release date, but it is expected sometime in 2024.
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