Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition

Metro Exodus feels like a poor clone of Fallout 3 & 4. The environments, mutants and guns all feel similar, but it just feels lacking in so many ways. I suffered through Metro 1 and 2, hoping I would eventually enjoy them... which I didn't much. With Exodus being so highly praised I was hoping that this might be good, but aside from some minor differences like the size of the environments you're in (it's not really "open world", it's just slightly less linear), it's pretty much the same as the first two games but with significantly worse voice acting and writing.

Cons

It's the same engine as the Redux versions of 1 and 2, so all the same pitfalls apply. Buggy scripted events, weapons that don't tell you what they do when you find them, and wonky movement
If you play on a widescreen monitor, the game forces you to play on widescreen. There's no way to play at 16:9 - but all the subtitles and loading screens are all squished as it tries to fit a widescreen into a 16:9 box in the middle
Unskippable long cutscenes every time you open the game
Long load times on an SSD
You can’t adjust system volume while the game is open
The combat is just as bad as the first two games
Graphics are good, but feel dated for 2019. I guess that's because it's the same as the 2014 Redux engine
The "moral points" system for good or bad endings based on whether you stab or knock out bad guys is simplistic and annoying
Over the top amount of cutscenes and quick time events. Sometimes it's hard to tell if I'm actually in a fight or watching another quicktime event
The story starts with you getting shot in the face and falling backwards off a cliff... then you get up and carry on as if nothing happened. It's later revealed that your dog tag saved you from the bullet.... right.
In lots of sections where NPCs have story dialogue, they all talk over the top of each other, which makes it difficult to work out what's going on - like they're not quite timed correctly
The voice acting and animation of NPCs is terrible. It really reminded me of an amateur play at the theatre
Although Artyom doesn't talk in either of the two previous games, it feels even weirder in this one because so many people talk to him. There are lots of dialogues where people seem to just pretend that he replied to them and carry on talking to themselves

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition

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