10 Video Games That Only Got Started At The End

Though Metro Exodus was broadly well-received by critics, fans were decidedly more divided, feeling that the game lacked the polish and atmosphere of its predecessors.

The game's shift to an open-world style was met with especially mixed responses from players, feeling that it undermined the series' signature claustrophobic atmosphere.

That's to say nothing of the disappointingly piecemeal story and characters, wide array of technical issues, and overabundance of bugs.

But Exodus at least had the grace to end strong, with its final two hours sending the player into Novosibirsk aka The Dead City to find an antidote for protagonist Artyom's ailing wife Anna.

What follows is one of the most tense levels in any of the Metro games, a delicious exercise in atmospheric suspense that finally has Exodus feeling like it truly belongs in the Metro series.

It's just a damn shame that the game takes around 10 hours to find its groove for that final mission.