Six ans après Metro Exodusthe 4A Games series finally finds a concrete date. On April 16, the next episode will be shown publicly, with an immediate relay on the Xbox side.
Metro 2039 will be shown on April 16
Deep Silver has put online a page dedicated to Metro 2039presented as the “next chapter of Metro”. The indicated time is 10 AM PDT, 7 PM CEST and 8 PM EET, i.e. 7 p.m. in Central Europe and 8 p.m. in Eastern Europe.
This is indeed a presentation date, not a release date. Xbox has confirmed for its part a Xbox First Look : Metro 2039 scheduled the same day, in the form of a digital-only broadcast with a first demonstration of the game.
This new episode is described as the fourth main opus signed by 4A Games, after Metro 2033 in 2010, Metro: Last Light in 2013 and Metro Exodus in 2019. The series remains directly linked to the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky.
An event to follow also on the PC hardware side
The Metro license still has a special place for PC gamers attentive to rendering technologies. In 2018, 4A Games used Metro Exodus as an early showcase for ray tracing, before going further with Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition, the minimum configuration of which required a ray tracing compatible graphics card.
This context gives additional weight to Metro 2039 beyond the simple sequel. If 4A Games uses the same logic, this first glimpse could also serve as an indicator of the next graphic functions highlighted on PC, in particular on lighting, reflections and the possible dependence on a pipeline entirely oriented towards ray tracing.
For players, the interest of April 16 is therefore not limited to the universe or the narrative. In this series, each presentation also counts as a technical signal about the direction taken by future demanding PC games.
Source : VideoCardz
