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Look at this place — I go on holiday for a week and everything falls to pieces! Well, I’m back, and while I was gone I finally finished reading Dmitry Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic novel Metro 2033. (Remember back when I posted my initial impressions?)

So now that I’m done, I can finally say: Wow. This is a really magnificent

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When I learned several months ago that the game Metro 2033 was based on a novel, I raced to order the book. Then I learned that the English translation would not be released until the same day of the game launch. I placed my pre-order, got it two days later, and now I’m racing through it. I’m about halfway done, and I’m very impressed.

But I don’t understand how they made a game of it.

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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.

Well the reviews are in and what are they saying?

The game is averaging 80 so far at Metacritic from 25 reviews, with the highest being 95 and the lowest being 69.

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