For those of us who don't speak Russian, IGN has done a short overview of the upcoming more-FPS-than-RPG Metro 2033. Here's the setting, but they also take a short look at the gameplay and shinies:<blockquote>The videogame version will hold many of the same plot devices and scenarios as the novel, which doesn't sound like you can expect too many bright and sunny days with it -- "The whole world lies in ruins and humanity is almost annihilated," begins 4A's official story synopsis. "Outside the cities, as rumors say, there are endless burned-out deserts and mutated wild forests. The survivors still remember the past greatness of humanity, but the remnants of that civilization have gradually become just memories... spun into stories which then turned to legends."
Oh, and it gets even more cheerful from there. In the last twenty years not a single plane has taken off, none of the railroads are used, and the radio and television airwaves remain quiet. "The Human epoch has collapsed," as they say -- beginning a new era filled by irradiated creatures and other "things" that aren't suitable for an E10. It's a rosy beginning, we know.
Luckily for the normal folks out there, people still live in "Moscow Metro" -- the largest anti-nuke shelter ever built and the last real retreat for humankind. Though divided into religious and political groupings (just like a real city), the people that remain are united by their need to survive. Unfortunately for them, that need to survive is put to the test rather quickly when the Metro's northern outpost is attacked by a horde of a bizarre animals known as "The Darkness" (no, not THAT Darkness, this is another one).</blockquote>Link: Metro 2033 preview on IGN
Oh, and it gets even more cheerful from there. In the last twenty years not a single plane has taken off, none of the railroads are used, and the radio and television airwaves remain quiet. "The Human epoch has collapsed," as they say -- beginning a new era filled by irradiated creatures and other "things" that aren't suitable for an E10. It's a rosy beginning, we know.
Luckily for the normal folks out there, people still live in "Moscow Metro" -- the largest anti-nuke shelter ever built and the last real retreat for humankind. Though divided into religious and political groupings (just like a real city), the people that remain are united by their need to survive. Unfortunately for them, that need to survive is put to the test rather quickly when the Metro's northern outpost is attacked by a horde of a bizarre animals known as "The Darkness" (no, not THAT Darkness, this is another one).</blockquote>Link: Metro 2033 preview on IGN
