Throughout immediately’s PlayStation State of Play, developer Vertigo Video games and writer Deep Silver revealed the following entry within the post-apocalyptic Metro collection is headed to VR. Metro Awakening serves as a prequel to the unique Metro video games that has been constructed from the bottom up for VR as a story-driven first-person journey.

“This origins story is so important to me,” mentioned Dmitry Glukhovsky, who can be serving as a lore marketing consultant for Metro Awakening. “It seems like returning to the foundations and roots of the collection – now on the degree that VR expertise can deliver.”

– Dmitry Glukhovsy, Creator and Creator of Metro and Lore Guide on Metro Awakening

Survivors of Nuclear Armageddon cling to life in buried subways of the Moscow Metro the place ghosts and spirits hang-out the residing. Gamers will fairly actually—through VR—step into the function of Serdar, a health care provider and rationalist. Gamers should courageous the darkness, crippling radiation, and lethal threats of Metro in the hunt for Serdar’s spouse and the treatment she desperately wants.

I’m nonetheless not 100% offered on VR however Metro is a fairly creepily immersive collection, so I believe this might become expertise if executed proper. It’s promising that relatively than performing some form of port, Vertigo Video games is creating Metro Awakening with the options of the PlayStation 5 and PS VR2 in thoughts from the beginning.

Metro Awakening is ready to launch on PS VR2, Meta Quest 2 and three, and PC VR in 2024.