Metro 2033 is a first-person shooter with survival horror elements, based on the Russian book of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky. Most of the game takes place underground, but several times Artyom will have to venture outside, into the perpetual nuclear winter. Game progression is fairly linear, though areas may be explored more thoroughly for items and ammunition. Setpieces include a few on-rails sequences, missions that involve defending a location from an onslaught of monsters, and others. A few stages can be completed in a stealthy fashion. Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands. In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033. An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside. You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind.
ShooterRole-playing (RPG)ActionScience fictionHorrorThrillerSurvivalStealthWarfareghostsassassinpost-apocalypticbloodyparanormalminigamesdystopianguitar playingdeathPC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- intimateepic
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- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Developer
- 4A Games
- Publisher
- THQ
- Released
- March 16, 2010
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- 4A Engine
- Time to beat
- 11 h rushed · 10 h main story · 27 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.5/10 from 894 ratings.
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