Metro 2039 Is Bringing Back an Old Mechanic Because 4A Says It "Belongs in the Metro"

For as much as I love Metro Exodus, there is no denying that it took 4A Games' post-apocalyptic series somewhere it had never been before, both literally and figuratively. After spending most of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light crawling through the tunnels beneath Moscow and occasionally risking a trip to the irradiated surface, Exodus put Artyom aboard the Aurora and sent him across Russia, opening the series up with larger environments, more freedom, and a crafting system that made sense for someone who could no longer rely on Moscow's stations for supplies. It was still unmistakably Metro, but it also proved the series didn't necessarily need the Metro itself to survive, which left me wondering what would happen whenever 4A Games eventually decided to take us back there.