he novel that gave birth to the video games 'Metro 2033' and
'Metro: Last Light' The breathtaking original story that inspired
both the METRO 2033 and METRO: LAST LIGHT video games An
international bestseller, translated into 35 languages. 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. The year is 2033. An entire
generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged
Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and
the mutant horrors that await outside. Artyom was born in the last
days before the fire. Having never ventured beyond his Metro
Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission
to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind
of a terrible impending threat. His journey takes him from the
forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands
above, where his actions will determine the fate of mankind.
BURIED. ALIVE. It is now two decades since the planet was convulsed
by the Final War, which flashed across the continents, engulfing
all of them in an instant, to close the final chapter in our
history. Deployed in this war, the most advanced inventions and
greatest discoveries of the human genius drove the human race back
into caves, submerging civilization forever in the impenetrable
gloom of a final Dark Age. Nowadays, in the year 2033, no one can
recall any longer what triggered the hostilities. Absurd. But if
you think for a moment, what does it matter who started it? Those
who unleashed the war were the first to die... And the inheritance
they left to us was a smoldering ember that used to be called the
Earth. The entire world lies in ruins. The human race has been
almost completely exterminated. Even cities that were not totally
demolished were rendered unfit to live in by the radiation. And the
rumors say that beyond the city limits lie boundless expanses of
scorched desert and dense thickets of mutated forest. But what
really is there, no one knows. The airwaves are empty, and when the
few radio operators who are left tune in for the millionth time to
the frequencies on which New York, Paris, Tokyo and Buenos Aires
once used to broadcast, all they hear is a dismal howl. More than
twenty years have passed since the day when the final plane took
off. Railroad tracks, corroded and pitted with rust, now lead
nowhere. The great construction projects of the age were
transformed into ruins without ever being completed and the
skyscrapers of Chicago and Frankfurt were reduced to rubble. The
historic districts of Rome lie smothered in moss and fungus, the
Eiffel Tower, gnawed through by reddish-brown leprosy, has snapped
in half. And the weeds of fiction and fantasy are flourishing on
the memory of humankind's former glory. It is only twenty years
since the war ended before it had even begun. But in those twenty
years the world has changed beyond all recognition. The planet has
new masters now, and the human race is condemned to huddle in
burrows, consoling itself with memories. The radiation and viruses
with which some human beings attempted to eradicate others have
brought new creatures into the world. And now they rule by right
over the desolate Earth. The mutants are far better adapted to this
new world than human beings. The human era is almost over. There
are not many of us left, only a few tens of thousands, out of seven
billion human beings. We don't know if there were others who
survived in some other place, on the other side of the world, or if
we are the last humans on the planet. We live in the Moscow Metro.
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