My review is up, in Dutch. Played on Xbox One X.
http://www.4gamers.be/reviews/68055/1/Metro-Exodus
My score's a 75. The game's fun and it feels like it's predecessors in most areas where it counts. The new areas are pretty and invite to explore, though ultimately most of them offer little of interest but a few enemies to kill and some scrap to craft ammo with.
It's far from perfect, however. While the stealth gameplay is great, some sections force you into open combat, and the game simply isn't built for it. The story is uninteresting and the characters are annoying and simply won't shut up. Anna in particular is pretty bad, pretty much existing just as a regular reminder to the player of how great he is, and as an object for them to rescue. The vouce acting is lacking too: in fact the entire sound mix often feels off.
Worst of all, and this is what kept the game from reaching 80 or higher for me, is the performance. There's a few minor glitches that can occur during gameplay, but I've also seen no less than fifteen hard freezes, where I had to close the game and reload from the dashboard. Considering the load times to get back into the game can run up to four minutes: that's pretty bad.
I had fun playing Metro Exodus, but it doesn't quite hit the bar set by Last Light.
