After six years, it's official: a new Metro game is coming.
Announced as part of the Xbox First Look Program, Ukraine-based 4A Games has revealed Metro 2039, the third game in the series, based on the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky. The game has undergone a complete revision, as the development team revealed "Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine fundamentally changed life at Ukrainian studio 4A Games, particularly for the teams and families based in the country."
A lot has happened since the release of Metro Exodus in 2019. A global pandemic, and perhaps more pertinent for 4A Games, Russia's full-scale invasion of its homeland. This event forced the development team to rethink the story of Metro 2039, shifting it to "focus acutely on choices, actions, consequences, and the cost of securing a future." But while the story may have changed during the six years since the last title, it still looks like a typical Metro title.
4A revealed that 2039's narrative was crafted alongside Glukhovsky, a Russian whose outspoken criticisms of the Ukraine invasion has forced him into exile from his home country, and it will draw on lived experience from recent events, with a...
