It’s been confirmed {that a} model new Metro online game is on the way in which. Titled Metro Awakening, it’s a VR recreation set earlier than the occasions of Metro 2033, and it’s deliberate to be launched sooner or later this 12 months on PS VR2, in addition to Meta Quest 2, 3, and Steam VR.
The information was introduced throughout PlayStation’s State of Play occasion yesterday (January 31), with a spooky trailer showcasing the horrors to return when the sport launches. It’s being developed by Vertigo Video games, with the help of Deep Silver. You possibly can check out the trailer beneath.
In a PlayStation Weblog publish elaborating on the announcement, Vertigo Video games affiliate recreation director Samar Louwe confirmed that gamers will step into the sneakers of a physician known as Serdar, who’s looking for his spouse within the metro tunnels of a post-apocalyptic Moscow. The story itself has been written by collection creator Dmitry Glukhovsky, and, as Serdar, gamers can count on to come across supernatural forces whereas exploring the metro, watching the “occasions that result in his non secular awakening as one thing else fully.”
In fact, so far as the motion itself goes, gamers will expertise every part in first-person, in an journey that mixes fight, stealth, and survival. It sounds prefer it’ll make full use of the PS VR2’s options for an extra-immersive expertise, too, with the utilization of the headset haptics and adaptive triggers to make getting hit by bullets in-game and pulling weapons’ triggers really feel extra tactile.
When you’ve not performed any of the Metro video games earlier than, then don’t fear – because it’s set in 2028, earlier than the occasions of 2033, it serves as a stable place to begin. Nonetheless, the PlayStation Weblog publish additionally notes that it’ll supply a “entire unique approach for Metro followers,” which is an intriguing prospect.
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