Developer 4A Video games has made clear Metro Awakening, the PSVR2 recreation introduced in the course of the January 2024 PlayStation State of Play, is just not the following mainline Metro recreation however as a substitute a spin-off.
Following its announcement on the State of Play, Metro followers with out Sony’s $550 / £530 PlayStation 5 accent grew somewhat involved they’d waited 5 years for an additional recreation solely to see it introduced for a platform they did not personal or need.
4A Video games took to X/Twitter to alleviate these considerations, nevertheless, reassuring followers it is nonetheless engaged on the following multiplatform mainline Metro recreation, whereas Awakening is developed by Vertigo Video games.
“This isn’t the following mainline Metro recreation by 4A Video games,” the developer mentioned. “That’s nonetheless in growth and, as we’ve acknowledged beforehand, will come to era 9 consoles and PC. This can be a completely different challenge developed by Vertigo Video games.”
Technology 9 refers back to the present era of consoles, that means the PS5 and Xbox Collection X and S. Nintendo continues to allude typical console cycles, although its imminent Swap successor may be a risk for no matter this subsequent mainline Metro recreation is.
Awakening will arrive as a PlayStation VR2 unique someday in 2024, bringing the single-player, first-person post-apocalyptic shooter franchise to digital actuality for the primary time. It is set earlier than the occasions of 2010’s Metro 2033 and has gamers take management of Serdar, a health care provider looking the metro tunnels to search out his spouse.
The State of Play additionally noticed a sometimes weird Loss of life Stranding 2 trailer launched alongside the revelation that Metallic Gear creator Hideo Kojima is returning to his stealth motion roots with a PlayStation unique. Group Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin and Shift Up’s Stellar Blade additionally acquired enhanced seems, and you may examine each different announcement proper right here.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.