Metro Awakening (2024)

The atmosphere is there, and the environment looks kinda cool for a quest game. I also liked the immersiveness of using your tools, even just having to grab the pack to recharge the light is a small action that you have to repeat that helps setting the survival tone and makes the game feel more VR.

But the story is just bad and uninteresting, beside the initial lore being intriguing. And the level design is too linear. The stealth was basically not an option in my opinion, or too boring to perform. You have to wait too much, not enough tools to stealth, and, for example, the items to make noise, just didn't seem to work how I expected them.

I did have some fun, but overall I think it's not that worth it.

Actually more like 2.5 stars but I am being generous and rounding up.

I did not like the flatscreen Metro series of games but I felt the same way about Rocksteady Batman and I loved the VR version so I figured "why not?" Well... this is why not:

It starts strong, the story is whatever but the game is made by the people who made the fun VR L4D-like "After The Fall" so the gameplay/gunplay is solid. The gameplay is nice. It is moving.

Then the spiders come. They are an annoying enemy. Then the battle encounters get longer and longer and just feel like random wave shooter segments. Then there are "on-rail" segments that go on a bit too long. THEN there are mandatory STEALTH SEGMENTS that are opaque in view and coherence!

The last third just repeats the most annoying parts of the game. I HATED the last third and had to power through! It really soured me on something I was quite enjoying initially.

(Played on Meta Quest 3)