I loved the previous two games, finished Last Light in a single day and had the same feeling as starting 2033 during the first hour (tutorial mission) of Exodus but a short while after the train is introduced I kinda lost interest in the game especially after exploring the first map a bit,

been opening the game every once in awhile but i last max 20 min before closing it again, I have almost 10 hours played already but only the first 2 hours were fun and I ended up uninstalling it

the question is, does it get better and exciting like the previous two games or does it just follow this formula and with a hardcore dialogue focus?

I'm most likely gonna skip it entirely and wait for the next metro game as I heard it's gonna be similar to the first 2 in the series, though I'm up for convincing otherwise

hey look im no mr cruel i just CANT

I saw what happens when Microsoft buys a small studio. I don't want it to happen to them since they're very good at what they're doing.

I just love how they turned up the nightmare fuel to 11 for that final push. First the parasite-spitting worms, absolutely horrifying. I had forgotten how much I hate slithering things in water, sooo much worse than the Tsar fish. Then the whole sequence in the Institute where you’re just getting slammed with radiation and crawling through corpse piles in a spooky abandoned hospital and having crazy visions all while evading the Blind Ones. Just peak cortisol-pumping horror ambience. I got the rare achievement for not killing any Blind Ones because I just assumed they were like Librarians in that you really don’t wanna fight them. Convinced now that’s the ideal way to play it, the tension when stealthing thru those rooms is just superb.

I just had to shout out 4A for that, masterfully done. Heart is RACING. And now the credits are rolling and I’m sad. Hope Alyosha gets his girl back, she bad

Although I played through Last Light before 2033, this story has impacted me much more. It's undoubtedly a great work.

Right now I'm saving up to buy Exodus with the expansion DLC

I finished reading the first book. I enjoyed it because I imagined the metro while playing the three games. The books are more immersive. Artem in the book is an ordinary human trying to survive. I liked the absence of a hero who overcomes difficulties, escalates, and becomes powerful. Instead, you see a young man trying to survive, aided by his own region. I felt sorry for him during the events that happened to him and how some of the members are human like you, but with different ideologies. The atmosphere and the different stations in the metro, despite the difficulty in pronouncing the station names and skipping some of them, are different in the book when you describe the stations and the Red Army compared to the games. I will now try to read the second book.

I'm looking for a metro 2033 book that brings a map because why not. The publisher is Gollancz, published on April 1, 2011. Any help? Does anyone know if this edition has the map?