Should the worse come to the worse and the world sink into some all-consuming apocalypse, video gamers will at least have a decent bearing on what comes next. Yes, post-apocalyptic fallout is a well trodden path in games development, and one that usually brings some rather spectacular results. Enter Ukrainian developer 4A Games with new first-person shooter Metro 2033, which is based on a book about hardy survivors living underground in Moscow to escape a poisonous, twisted and dangerous world above. So Digital Spy bunkered down with the game's executive producer Dean Sharpe to delve deeper into this intriguing premise. Metro 2033 takes its inspiration from Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel of the same name. After the author self-published his story online, 4A Games picked up on its "amazing potential" for adaptation into an action shooter. Glukhovsky subsequently (more)...
- 1/10/2010
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
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