Metro Exodus Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

1. You Genuinely Care For The Characters

Metro Exodus
4A Games

Of course, while you spend the bulk of your time fighting and exploring on your own, everything you accomplish feeds back into the small community of people back on the train.

Acting as your home base, the train is a hub between sandboxes, where you can freely explore, interact with the people on board and check out your diary. Similar to Red Dead Redemption 2, it’s made clear that this group is what you’re fighting for, and you do genuinely come to care about each person on board, and the stragglers you pick up along the way.

In between missions you see them acting like real people, laughing with each other, playing music and falling in love. These sections offer you a glimpse of what you’re actually fighting for: a home where humanity can still thrive.

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