At the moment we’re excited to lastly affirm that Metro 2039 launches February 4 2027*.
With the ability to have fun this announcement with you all throughout State of Play was an enormous honour, so we needed to supply one thing particular for everybody watching – the world debut of console gameplay, captured completely on PlayStation 5 Professional.
The Spartans had been wolves. However The Stranger is one thing worse…
The trailer begins simply after Metro 2039’s new protagonist – The Stranger – has left the darkish confines of the tunnels beneath and ventured up onto the thawing post-apocalyptic ruins of Moscow.
The Stranger is a former Spartan warrior with a darkish previous, one who by no means needed to return to the Metro he left behind. As an elite soldier who’s as brutal as he’s adaptable, his Spartan armor marks him out as a wolf, even a possible hero, however he’s far worse than that.
A deadly world
In our gameplay The Stranger is looking for a Novoreich fortress situated inside a close-by dam, however each step on the floor is doubtlessly deadly. Inside seconds he’s swimming in radiation, and the ruined condo blocks looming over him threaten to cover a number of risks.
At first, Metro 2039 is a solo, story-driven FPS, however we captured this sequence particularly to present a style of Metro’s kinetic fight and tense exploration amongst dense, ruined environments.
As The Stranger, gamers must handle radiation and gear to outlive, however can even come geared up with the weapons and instruments to decide on their strategy – whether or not that’s charging their Shatun rifle to ship lethal silenced headshots, utilizing Molotovs to clear a room, or weaving between disintegrating masonry to ship the killing blow from a Duplet shotgun.
Performant expertise
Like each Metro recreation we’ve made, Metro 2039 runs on our personal proprietary expertise, the 4A Engine, constructed to assist us make the worlds and video games we need to make.
In 2021 we had been proud to launch Metro Exodus Enhanced Version, which turned out to be one of many early pioneers of 60fps ray tracing assist on PlayStation 5.
For Metro 2039, we’ve constructed on every part we’ve realized in years since to ship the best-looking Metro so far, and naturally we’re delighted to substantiate that each PS5 and PS5 Professional gamers will have the ability to expertise Metro 2039 with ray tracing, together with at a easy 60fps with a devoted Efficiency Mode.
Metro 2039 is accessible to wishlist at the moment on PlayStation Retailer, and pre-orders will go stay later this yr.
We’ll be revealing way more about Metro 2039’s story, gameplay, expertise and PlayStation 5 options sooner or later, and we will’t wait to see you within the tunnels on February 4.
* Out there February 5th in some territories together with Asia, Australia & New Zealand