This Thursday, April 16, we’ll be debuting Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 with 4A Games & Deep Silver – a digital-only broadcast offering a world-premiere look at the next title in the beloved post-apocalyptic first-person shooter series.
This will be the fourth mainline entry from 4A Games in the series based on the iconic novels of Dmitry Glukhovsky, following Metro 2033 (2010), Metro: Last Light (2013), and Metro Exodus (2019), all of which tell the stories of survivors of nuclear devastation living in the Moscow subway tunnels and the world that surrounds them.
Xbox has always been a home for the franchise, and we’re honored to continue that relationship by bringing you a first look at this next exciting chapter.
Read on for all the details about how and when to tune into the broadcast.
What time does Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 begin? Thursday, April 16, at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK.
How do I watch? Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 will be available to watch as a YouTube Premiere on YouTube.com/Xbox.
This Xbox is getting more aggressive and involve with marketing. First the new “Xbox Presents” and now “Xbox First Look.” Presents to be their own SoP for one title and First Look, well guess we’ll see soon.
So now we have ID@Xbox, Dev Direct, Xbox Showcase, Xbox Presents and Xbox First.
Then we also have the solo stuff put on by the Studios, so I don’t want to hear about Xbox having too many showcases after all the complaints of too little./j
Very good to see. Liking it. If this is all due to Asha then I see she’s doing a good job. Of course I always want to be wary of some corporate PR talk, but still, good shit.
It appears the benefit of using Xbox to do showcase for their games is to have the production from Xbox, which has been splendid. Also, rumored that it will be XPA.
I feel like it’d be weird for it not to be XPA yet secured for the first ever “Xbox first look” but we’ll see I guess.
Microsoft’s “Xbox First Look” show will revolve entirely around Metro 2039 I’m told, and will play host to a series of similar mini-show reveals throughout the year too.
Cool new show format. Very looking forward to this, Metro Exodus was an incredibly immersive game with a perfect balance of linear/small-open-world structure, I hope they build in that similar structure and not go full open-world.
Loved the Metro games and thus, im looking forward to this one. I’m just hoping that the main protagonist is still fully voiced like 4A Games said he would be after Metro Exodus launched as that’s the main aspect that hurts the story/characters because there’s no interaction.
Other than that, im hoping that the gameplay/combat is more fluid and responsive.
Glukhovsky is a real one. He’s considered by russia a Foreign agent and will probably never get back to his home country. He lived through the 90-2000 russia, and the hell that was, got through putin’s ruling, and had to flee in 2022 or he would probably be in jail right now as he was a dedicated critic of him.
It’s painful to see that, yeah, reality has been catching up to what he imagined back then… The russia he describes in the books is absolute hell on earth though. Metro 2035 is a miserable read.
I remember badly wanted to read 2033 back when the game was announced. I didn’t know at the time the book was only in Russian. I found out recently that the books are here. I should grab them one day.
Absolutely. I loved them all, but 2033 especially is incredible. One of the few books I read twice. It expands on everything the game was, set up the whole lore of the series, explains the politics and intricacies of the Metro underworld. It is also an easy read (besides the heavy themes), like it just hooks you right from the start and it doesn’t slow down until the last page.
Random thought: this series is the only one that still stick with no cutscene that goes out of character’s POV, until the end. I missed those “I’m in a cutscene” vibe.
