play station official magazine

033

PREVIEW

Anna is missing. And that’s just

one more thing on our to-do list

that has gone wrong since leaving

Moscow, though it’s pretty close to

the top of it. We’d say something

about our sniper getting herself

into trouble but given the number of times we

very nearly had our own face chewed off by

Watchers, or drowned in the irradiated water, or

got rumbled by crazed cultists, we don’t really

have a leg to stand on.

The surface, specifically the patch by the Volga we’re

now scouring, is no more welcoming than the Metro

was. But there’s that much more space to retreat

into... not that we’re ones to run, mind you, it’s just

necessary sometimes. Artyom only has so many

bullets on him and that’s why in our hands-on we

currently have him hiding in a quaint little shack.

Work benches are hard to come by and we’ll tear

back out into the fray to put down that big, scary

Watcher just as soon as we’ve crafted more bullets...

and that Watcher has left our immediate area.

RUSSIAN TO THE TOP

The overworld areas we saw in Last Light have been

massively expanded. While the land above the Metro

is not a true open world, it’s presented as a number

of contained sandboxes set in a range of diverse

biomes. After we spend a number of hours scurrying

along the irradiated shores of the Volga, 4A Games

takes us to the arid sands of the Caspian. Every time

METRO EXODUS

Sun, sand...and mutants. Escape

to the surface this February

FORMAT PS4 / ETA 15 FEB

PUB DEEP SILVER / DEV 4A GAMES

“IN THE DESERT

WE REALLY FEEL

THE DISTANCE

FROM MOSCOW.”