Metro Awakening is a story-driven first-person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet.
While Metro Awakening's world-building and the depth of its characters will inspire players to want to check out the franchise's other installments, the game delivers another engaging VR adventure that takes advantage of immersive technology. It doesn't push the boundaries of the medium to the extent that the revolutionary Half-Life: Alyx or the criminal-invested...
Another solid PSVR2 title and a fine addition to the Metro series.
The combat is generally entertaining, although there are sometimes unjustified difficulty spikes , which are also tedious due to the not always perfect management of the automatic checkpoints.
Although rooted in a valuable gaming system, supported by a convincing technical sector, Metro Awakening struggles to maintain the initial momentum between the numerous stages of an adventure that, in the absence of noteworthy variations, is longer than it should be and - especially in the last few hours - somewhat repetitive.
Metro Awakening is a capable, haunting jaunt through the familiar, post-nuclear world beneath Moscow I've grown to love. It cleverly harnesses VR to emulate the scrappy, resourcefulness of the underground, however its combat is a bit of a slog and struggles to find the fun, leading to a somewhat disjointed campaign.
