Not as good as the first game. Mechanically there's some quality of life stuff and some more engaging gameplay moments. But the story begins to get a bit unwieldy and the charm of the first game is lost. The experience isn't as novel as the first game and the story not as tight.

Still the Metro series is a great time and the games stand right alongside Last of Us or Bioshock in terms of compelling apocalyptic video game narratives. And I'll even say the Metro series has the best gameplay of three (though the weakest storyline of them).

I'd play the Metro series ten times over to scratch my apocalyptic shooter rpg itch before I'd go back to Fallout

All of my Metro reviews are going to be a copy and paste.
My journey with Metro: My first Metro game last night on PC then it was Metro Redux on the Nintendo Switch and lastly Metro Exodus on PC. If i had to pick a favorite i would choose last night.

Its been interesting to see how each game evolved with the times in terms of game - play but as far as the story it never really interested me all that much its nor bad or good just average its an alright experience and non of the games for me were better then the last one.

There all average games for me.