This post-apocalyptic, survival-horror, real-fantasy setting, first-person-shooter may be high concept (and full of hyphens), but it looks frighteningly promising.
Available on:
PC,
PS3
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Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter Expected release date: 2010 Published by: THQ Developed by: 4A-Games
I'm beyond excited for this game. I really hope they fix that sluggish movement thing by the time the game comes out, it would be a shame if such a cool premise is ruined by shoddy combat.
If the waves made by BioShock are still rippling within the industry, Metro 2033 may be the first game to wash ashore. The setup: In 2011, a worldwide nuclear catastrophe decimated civilization. Moscow citizens retreated to the tubes, building a network of city-states along the underground subways to avoid the surface, where radiation spawned breeds of psychic supermutants: sedan-sized bats and rats, hulking ogres, and ghostly anomolies.
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