THQ goes underground with Metro 2033
THQ revealed a new first-person shooter that it has picked up the publishing rights to called Metro 2033. The game is being developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games for Xbox 360 and PC using the company’s proprietary game engine technology which promises to deliver a “gripping, atmospheric experience.”
Metro 2033’s back story is based on the best-selling Russian novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky, who is also working closely with the studio to create the game. The Metro 2033 game has been in development at 4A Games for just over two years, and the film rights are currently in negotiation with a number of Hollywood studios.
Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 is a story of underground survival where (as is usually the case in these kinds of games) 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, but a handful of survivors managed to survive, taking refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground. But survival in an underground world devoid of light plunges what is left of humanity into a new Dark Age.
The game opens in the year 2033 and an entire generation that has been born and raised underground in Metro Station Cities struggles for survival with each other and the mutant horrors that await outside. Playing as Artyom, you will crack the gate between the polluted overland and the underground world you know to save yourself and what is left of society below.
