Metro 2039 preview – hands-on with gaming’s grimmest post-apocalypse

Metro 2039 – some post-apocalypses are worse than others (Deep Silver)

The Metro 2033 series continues, as Ukrainian developer 4A Games brave the horrors of actual war in order to tell a very serious story of human greed and folly.

There’s a characteristically Slavic sense of gloom that runs through Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro books. Even by the standards of post-apocalyptic fiction, which naturally gravitates towards a certain grimness, it stands out for its bleak humour and sense that humanity’s self-destructive foibles will always accompany us, wherever we happen to be. In Metro’s case, that was Moscow’s underground train tunnels, where survivors seek shelter after World War 3 turns the surface into a mutant infested, irradiated wasteland.

Underground, things are only slightly...