The amount of content does have some problems with them, too.

Huw Beynon is the head global brand manager of Deep Silver (which has been owned by THQ Nordic for half a year at this point), and he was interviewed by GamesTM. The interview has some quotes on WCCFTech, and thus, we learned that Beynon says Metro Exodus will take roughly 25 hours to beat – the total of Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light combined!

„We’re looking at a total playtime of both previous games combined. In terms of geographical footprint, as we have moved to these more open areas, we can fit pretty much the entirety of the first two games (in terms of the footprint) into just one of our huge levels. The last two games came in at about 12GB each, and we’re struggling to fit Metro Exodus onto a single Blu-ray. This is a massive step up for the studio,” Beynon said.

The team tries to take a turn away from the usual open-world missions, though.

„It’s not like we have a sign up on the screen that says go here, do this, fetch that. We still try to integrate everything naturally… there are all sorts of stuff that you can just come across naturally and explore for yourself rather than just being told to, like, fetch ten of those things. We didn’t want to – and we don’t do – that kind of stuff.

When we first started, we made an utterly open level, and we went completely in the wrong direction with it. We had to reel it back in… we had to go back in the other direction and see where the line was. Then we found ourselves removing too much of that open feel. It was a back and forth for so long, of us just iterating to try to figure out the right balance. I think if we had gone completely open world that maybe there’s some formula that we could’ve found, eventually. But I certainly believe that it would’ve been a more massive shock to the system, for ourselves, and for our fans. With the formula that we have now, we found a way to contain a story arc and progression through these significant open areas that are very well defined,” Ken Bloch, the game’s executive producer, said.

The developers had a ton of issues, though, but we have yet to see if their efforts were worth it – Metro Exodus is out on February 22 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. That day, the PS4-exclusive Days Gone, as well as the multiplatform Anthem will both hit the shelves…

Source: WCCFTech