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Matt Cabral

Metro 2039 returns to Moscow's subway and the post-apocalyptic shooter's creepy roots

A crowded underground room where someone stands on a makeshift stage addressing a crowd in Metro 2039.

There are no bad Metro games. In fact, fans of developer 4A Games' atmospheric-as-hell first-person shooter franchise might even argue the series – based on author Dmitry Glukhovsky's post-apocalyptic book trilogy – has only gotten better with each installment.

But while Metro 2033, its sequels Metro: Last Light and Metro Exodus – and even VR prequel Metro Awakening – have offered increasingly solid entries within the moody, immersion-ratcheting series, each successive release has also strayed a bit from what made the original so appealing…and terrifying.

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