The Metro series has some of the best gun battles in the history of FPS games. Often, single-player shooters are all about spectacle and scale – in Doom Eternal, Half-Life, and Ultrakill, the excitement comes from outlandish weapons, hordes of enemies, and rapid movement. But Metro slows it down. You're against a small number of highly lethal enemies. You don't have many bullets. Your guns feel like they could fall apart. Six years after Metro Exodus, its co-creator, 4A Games Ukraine, is finally back with something new. But the team isn't called 4A Games Ukraine anymore, and the tempo has totally changed.
This is FPS game, set a long, long way from the frozen subway tunnels of post-apocalypse Moscow. In La Quimera, you play a mercenary in a struggling private military company, operating deep in the jungles of Latin America, sometime in the distant future. Like with Metro, Reburn says its focus is on characters and storytelling – La Quimera is written by Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn. The action, however, feels like a far cry (pun very much intended) from 2033 and its sequels.
You can play La Quimera solo or with up to two co-op pals, turning it into a three-person squad-style shooter. From what I've seen so far, the weapons are reminiscent of Cyberpunk 2077, Titanfall, and System Shock; big, chunky, computerized blasters with digital sights and lots of punch. There are also mechanized exoskeletons and full suits of high-tech armor, a little like the nanosuits from Crysis.
Speaking of Crysis, the world of La Quimera looks partly inspired by the dense jungle of CryTek's 2007 original. If Metro was all about tight corners and close-quarters scrapping, La Quimera, so far at least, is built on longer-range battles in the open air.
There's no release date for La Quimera right now, but you can already wishlist it on Steam.
Keep in mind, this is not the end of 4A Games. 4A Games Ukraine was a sub-studio of the wider 4A Games Limited, and its main role was to complete outsource work on Metro Exodus and its expansions. While 4A Games Ukraine has become Reburn and is working on La Quimera, the wider 4A Games is still operational and, according to a statement, is working on a new Metro game as a well as other projects.
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