March 28th, 2010
So I spent some time yesterday looking up some new games to purchase as soon as I get the essentials (you know, a house, furniture, a bed, etc). One caught my eye as a promising new addition to the Post-Apocalyptic genre.
Nuclear holocaust once again comes to the world in Metro 2033. The game is the story of Artyom – a young man who lives in the ‘Station States’ of Mocow’s underground rail system. He battles mutated creatures, supernatural aliens, and other horrors while trying to discover the truth of what happened to the world. An excerpt from the game’s box art:
“The apocalypse came by our own making, with a single blinding flash, followed by a firestorm of sheer flame. It took just an hour and a half to wipe out 3.5 billion people and 10,000 years of civilization, plunging humanity into a hopeless Dark Age. In the aftermath, survivors in Moscow moved underground and slowly organized into small socially and politically independent tribes, clustered around the city’s deep, subway stations. The young man, Artyom is among them. A member of the first generation of children raised in the subterranean world following the apocalypse, he has only the vaguest recollections of life above ground, and contact with other humans beyond those that inhabit his local station, “Exhibition,” but he will have to face new experiences with both if humanity is to survive. Mutated beasts known as “Dark Ones” are spreading throughout the isolated stations of the Metro, and Artyom has been chosen as the messenger to spread the news of the new peril.”
Look for a more thorough review in the near future!
The game has been released on Xbox and PC.
So far the game is getting very good reviews on Amazon and other websites. The game is based off of a book of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky. The book is one of Russia’s biggest selling fiction novels and book rights have been negotiated with 20 different countries. No word yet on if an English version of the book will be forthcoming.
Metro 2033 Website (Russian)