It’s official: Metro 2039 is planned to launch sometime “This Winter” for PC and consoles, featuring a brand-new story and trailer. The next installment has been crafted in collaboration with METRO book series author Dmitry Glukhovsky and is the first mainline game to feature a new original story instead of one being adapted from his books. This time around, players return to Moscow as a new character called the stranger to encounter another from the books named Hunter.
Hunter has previously been seen in the games as a bit of a gruff soldier with more extreme views, and is much more darkly portrayed in the books. Here, he has become far more tyrannical since Artyom and his compatriots left Moscow during the events of Metro Exodus.
“Now, finally, they have been united by a single leader, a fanatical Spartan known as Hunter.
-4A Games
But this is no peace
Hunter’s Novoreich regime rules through propaganda and fear, subjugating the population in the name of a new war for the surface against a dark and terrifying enemy.”
“In the wilderness beyond the city, the reclusive Stranger is haunted by violent waking nightmares. When the ghosts of his past force him out of exile, he must undertake a harrowing journey into the shattered ruins of Moscow,
to the one place he swore he’d never go.
-4A Games
THE METRO.”
4A Games has stuck with its game engine and has reportedly overhauled its ray tracing features. The studio first introduced ray tracing with Metro Exodus, and while its RT Global Illumination enabled beautifully rendered scenes, it was very taxing on hardware and never updated beyond DLSS 2. Hopefully the developers have moved up to DLSS 4.5 with Metro 2039. It’s said in the official announcement that the game will launch “This Winter,” but presumably that actually translates to around 8-9 months from now since the first day of spring was nearly a month ago. Meanwhile, those interested in learning more about it can visit the official site here.