Metro Exodus Review: Should You Buy in 2022? 

Just replayed it the second time a year after finishing it. This time with RT/ultra and to really take my time to explore the areas and story. This game is art: the writing and story, the visuals and game direction, the pacing and gameplay, and the soundtrack and sound mix are exquisite. It has cemented its place as one of my all time favorite games. One of the mistakes I made in the first play through was not sitting still near an NPC (enemy or friendly or radio) long enough to listen to the NPCs' entire dialogue.

Fun fact this game has the same VAs who did Dempsey Nikoli and Richtofen's voices in Call of duty zombies

One of the most memorable games I've ever played.

This game has such a fun campaign. One of the best campaigns in a shooter I've played in recent years, along with Titanfall 2. I completely agree with you on the silent protagonist. Just felt weird to have so many talking to you and you have absolutely nothing to say. And I loved the immersive elements like your backpack, map, gas mask, weapon upgrade system, etc. Good review, mate!

The Metro series is an absolute gem. They just feel special for some reason.

I hear by take my own gamer pass away from myself because I played this for the first time yesterday and oh my goodness am I blown away? I’m ashamed that I missed this shit. I’m an old cranky gamer complaining about the lack of good games now a-days. But this shit HERE. is amazing. An 5 hours in and this is A1

Exodus is a great game. I just wish there was a dedicated museum mode like Last Light and there was greater base weapon diversity. A highly modified revolver is still inherently a revolver.

Great review. Finishing off the first two before diving in to this, but I can't wait.

I rarely comment on videos in youtube. This Commentator is very thorough but brilliant. I found his review very informative whilst being entertaining. Kudos to you !

I desperately want another Metro game! Exodus felt like a masterpiece, I've never been more immersed in a game. If we ever get a sequel, I hope they let Artyom speak in game, and fix a couple other things here and there. Like aiming with a stick on controller felt awkward AF at first. It wouldn't take much more to make it a perfect game

I needed many years and multiple playthroughs to truly understand the different characters and stories in the game. It is a much more complex game then you could ever realize at first.

10/10 great story. If you decide to play it take your time and listen to the people talking :)

It's an excellent game, with unique story telling, next gen graphics, and heavily discounted pricing, it's a no Brainer.

I just picked this up on PS5 for $8 At that price point I would bet that I'm going to get my money's worth even if I end up not liking it Great video!

I watched your video before buying the bundle and I was only about 20 seconds in before clicking to make the purchase. Great video and I'm excited to play through all of the games! On PC the bundle is selling for about $15 including Metro Last Light Redux, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro Exodus and Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition.

These games are great, great storytelling, great gameplay, and each game was different but exodus became the most unique

I'm going through the list of ps+ premium included games and I'm looking at metro to possibly be my next download. I appreciate the good reviews and the attention to detail you show us about games so i know exactly what im signing up for when choosing the next game to download and enjoy. Nothing worse than waiting hours to download a game to find out its not what i thought it was and now have to choose and wait again for another download. Based on this review metro exodus will be the next game i take advantage of on the ps+ game catalog. Keep up the excellent reviews👍

Playing on PC here. My PC specs are cpu: 5800x gpu: rx 6800xt, 32gb ram, 1tb samsung SSD. I'm still liking this game and it's beautiful graphics, but the most frustrating thing about this title compared to the first two, is that it freezes on certain chapters. For example, when you get to the Caspian light house area mission, the game freezes and I have no choice but to Ctrl+alt+del and log out/re-login. The same thing happens when you get to the village area in the Taiga chapter. This is a buggy game on PC, not sure about consoles...

Man this game looks so good and lucky it's on a massive sale and it's only £8.74

Artyom should talk, the silent protagonist here doesn't make any sense, that was the big problem for me about the history of the game, apart of that I like it a lot, but I know I would like it even more if artyom spoke and it would add much more of a connection with the player.

This is the most mixed signal, convoluted review I’ve ever seen. One sentence he’s raving about the game, the very next sentence he’s disappointed with something.

I bought it just now for Xbox I wanted to revisit the game, but I just miss the “horror” atmosphere that previous titles had.. I miss the shadows and this kinda of haunted places. But most of all I miss Chan missions with him are my personal favorites.

I'm in the middle of playing it now and it is pretty dang great. But I have a few complaints. I just got to this part and Instead of being able to choose to sell out guil or not she just swings in at the last second and puts me into a whole big cutscene where I do nothing to get myself out of that situation. Then, when I finally got to the Baron after raiding all kinds of outposts looking to kill him they tease me as we fight with him by having one character say I'll help guil from falling you deal with the baron. I was so looking forward to knifing, shooting or just straight up bashing him, but despite all that work I put in, Anna just says on the intercom , Artyom your head is in the way. I move and she snipes him. That bitch stole my kill! Not to mention the amount of times I fall 4 feet and get seriously injured.

No need to buy. We will experience “Metro Exodus” soon. Probably end of this year or 2023.

i feel game is a journey, it's about not loosing humanity even in worst times and friends we made in journey, it's really good game

Great review! 😍😍😍 Meticulously covers every aspect of the game. 🙌👌

I actually really appreciate the Russian accents for the English dub. They can sometimes sound cheesy but it really adds to the atmosphere. Makes me wish games like Kingdom Come Deliverance would have gone the same route with more geographically accurate voice actors instead of the obligatory English accents. Same for everything pertaining to Rome and Greece! I was 9 years old before I finally realized the English didn't conquer the world until the late 1700's pffff. Kudos to Ubisoft with AC Origins and Odyssey in this regard. While burned out on their games, I played through them anyway for the cultural exploration. Thoughtful and appreciated!

I remember standing on a gas station, i was discoverd by a guard, i shot him and then a group of those humanoids mutants came i try to shoot them but my weapon jammed.

I downloaded this game via torrent. yesterday i finished the game and felt very guilty, this is the first time i feel empty and sad when i finish a game in my life. what makes me feel guilty is playing it for free illegally. this morning I bought this game officially on Steam to make up for my mistake in downloading pirated games.

Man i wouldnt have played if it wasnt for you thanks.. liked an subscribed

This is one of my favorite games ever. Can't wait for the next one.

Excellent Review, thanks for posting!

Just finished 2033 on to last light and then mexodus… had the game since release but never played! Lol too many fps games but ive really needed a break from ranked grinding

this game is masterpiece , deep story , good dialogues between characters , this game stands near rdr 2 in story writing , exploring world , characters , its a wonderful game

Started to play it on my Series X. Really immersive and fun.

you convenced me. i just bought the game on steam. cheers. i really enjoyed fallout series so i think this might complement nicely. we will see

Yeah and now you can get the gold Version for 6 euros on Playstation till i think 20.6 and thats really really worth it i would say

Hoping this gets picked up for PSVR2!

I remember when this came out and I wanted it, completely forgot about it. Now I see it on the ps plus game catalog! Deff downloading now

I played it and I loved it this year

Beat ranger hardcore on ps4! Going through a playthrough now on the enhanced pc version!

Sprinting down stairs is a guaranteed broken neck irl too, mate.

Great review!

I'm currently playung through Metro Exodus Complete edition for the PS5 and the frame rate at the Taiga forest level was fixed. No noticeable slowdowns. Although I was stealthing my way through for the trophy. Not sure what it looks like if you had to go into combat with multiple enemies

Stalker might be a bit dated and janky but it is pretty fun in my opinion I just bought the trilogies and I have metro exodus and chernobylite gonna finish shadow of chernobyl and I'll either play metro exodus or stalker clear sky but then again idk I might try to hop on metros hardest difficulty, I love playing shooters on highest difficulty for the realistic level of punishment and making you think before you act and adds value to what you do

we need a game where they venture out to the ocean, just likke Anna always wanted

I just finished playing Metro Exodus on my PS5 and i can not describe just how amazing this game is. From the superb graphics, dialog, story inmersion, gameplay mechanics and level dynamics. To me this is the best game of 2022 even though it came out in 2019. I also got the two DLCs but i hope they release more. I just removed The Callisto Protocol from my wishlist. Very disapointing reviews and reported bugs and glitches in the demo, character flaws in the gameplay mechanics... I am not spending 70 dlls on a game i won't enjoy.

You just convinced me to play it

I need a bottle of water to soak all this in considering it's on sale for 9.99

RIP to Andrii, Metro exodus Animator. This game is definitely eye appeasing!

Cyak Blyat FTW! That song is a fucking banger!

Yeah, you definitely should try it out, its so much better than mainstream fps games.

Got metro exodus enhanced edition for 3$ with all dlc's, cant wait to play it!

Just started it for the first time last night and end up staying up till 3am couldn't put it down and so far so good and looks good in 4k/30 on XBOX One X

Nah nah nah that Russian Hardbass joke on the radio killed me

Is it better than the other Metro games?

The game is great in a lot of ways but people should chill with "it's a masterpiece". Open maps for example are weak. Barely anything to find or to look at. A lot of suit upgrades are crap. Weapons have barely any customization. You can attach silencer, few different scopes and lasers that work normally or night vision. Everything else is just straight upgrade so there is no point in attaching those old parts. I wish we had more places like a little house you can reach by boat in Volga. It was creepy, told a story without saying anything and etc. Even as I write this there are some insane bugs in the game to this day. Like when you open your map in the car you field of view will go up and you will be watching your car's ceiling. In Dead City level Miller went trough the stairs while walking up. Later in the level I couldn't press E to progress. I had these bugs few days ago and I had it few years ago too so it wasn't fixed. In DLC you get to a station and there are two states for a entrance. Normal and destroyed after it gets destroyed. When I reached it was in destroyed state from the start. Etc etc. It's fun if you are a fan but little disappointing too. It's a good game but far from a "masterpiece". You have to understand that a game like Fallout or Stalker existed for a long time before this. You had day and night cycle, ate food, fixed stuff, found stuff and etc. Metro Exodus just has this stuff and doesn't do anything interesting with it. This is coming from a person who 100% first two games and now replaying Exodus for 100%.

I don't do Horror games, I can't handle the spook. I finished this game. 'Nuff said

i love the tihar air gun but i also fukin hate it if i forget to pump it i could probably do more damage pissin at the enemy😂

Just bought this game. Cant wait to play it. This looks like The last of us on steroids!

loved metro from day 1. Exodus adds the pucker factor by including so many different factions and monsters

Now is cheap price on Steam,I buy done😁 nice graphics similarity of days gone

I think it's the best single player game I ever played

Good news is 4A has been working on a new Metro game and it will be multiplayer

I really want to get this on ps5. But so much of the gameplay I've seen is completely pitch black night time. And it sounds like there's no way to change it back to daytime if you want to?

Maybe you have a hardware issue, I never had any of these issues on my 3090, 5950x PC… unless you played this on council then it was definitely an issue lol.

Hell yes... It's on sale now on PlayStation store, only around 7 dollars....

Does this game work on xbox one?

I agree with all of this but the hit reg is shit. I shot something in the middle of the dome from the side And it was a body shot and when I shot something in the belly it said it was a headshot. And sometimes it goes right through them. And it sucks when you shoot someone with a gun that does not have a suppressor on it you just have them look at you caues the bullet went through their head or hit a body shot.

Is it really important to play the first two games?

Something that did seem odd to me was that there wasn’t much gore in the game and I know that’s not everything but it just seemed odd that in the last 2 games they were actually bloodier and more gory than this one you’d think they would only improve the gore I just think this game specifically needed to be more gory beacon how dark the series is but listen it DOES NOT RUIN THE GAME so do not come at me with that bull shit

U sold me. Gonna buy it after I get bored of cyberpunk 2077

This is the most immersive game I’ve ever played

i finally scraped up enough to get a series s so il finally play it no way i was gonna play this on my base xbox one lol

This game looks like a heavy rpg and i like heavy rpg wish me luck.

Going forward, can you not do the little movie clips and TV show clips please. We get it.

3:15 hahaha 😆

The answer is yes....yes you should play this game

1:20 I like how you are saying that AI is super smart and deadly, but on the screen we see a bunch of helpless idiots that are running like decapitated chickens and don't understand what is happening

Still awesome even on ps4

Great review Subbed!

I’m just replying to the title: YES 💯

I was underwhelmed. Draggy, long-winded conversations and boring. Regretted buying it

Don't feel bad, I can not drive in games at all. could not even play GTA 5. I was so bad at driving. Then again, I am not a gamer, I play maybe an hour every couple of days

U sound like Thor

Beat it 4 times. Normal, new game plus ranger, ironman, ironman. It is just that good.

Ive played about 6 hours and I feel mixed. It's one of the better looking games I've ever played but everything else feels limited. The gunplay and combat is nothing spectacular and the exploration/looting is cool but definitely scaled back compared to games like Fallout, Dying Light and Stalker. It just feels like a watered down survival game with really nice graphics. I like it a lot, but I think it could have used more survival elements.

I wanted to shoot everything in my gield of vision like the last game

1 & 2 were kind of meh in 2022, but they were probably awesome 10 years ago when they released.

Anyone play the next gen version? Does it hold up?

All 3 games are on sale constantly for only $12 its insane

Great game.

cant wait to pirate this

The tikhar is the worst weapon in the game. I never use it and hate the fact that it takes up a slot out one out of the 3 weapon slots and you can't replace it!

Don't the game dosent work and the controls are god awful just watch a play through with no commentary

The game is shit because the AI is horrible. Redux has better AI lol.

So this game is basically like tomb raider, from everything i have seen that is what it looks like

dayz

this game are downgrade in compare to Metro Last light in basically everything !! it was "so good" that i was erase it

Got this on my ps4 and I just can't play this game, the controls are messed up and it takes 40 years to load