His Russian mother Larisa worked as a photo editor for TASS, a major news agency still based in Moscow. His father Alexei, a Jew by nationality, worked as an editor for Gosteleradio, an agency that ran television and radio programing in the USSR. Since his birth, he was surrounded by critical thinkers as both of his parents graduated from Moscow State University with degrees in journalism. Find it on Amazon.ĭmitry Glukhovsky was born in 1979 in the Strogino District of Moscow. The cover for the US release of the English translation of Metro 2033. The game includes a sequence in which players can approach a vendor who states, 'If you're here for the dope, I've got plenty' players' character can then inhale from a hookah and experience drug-like effects-blurry vision, losing balance, vomiting.In an interview with the French art blog Adria’s News, Dmitry Glukhovsky was asked why he continued to post his literature online, to which he bluntly replied: “I want my books to spread like a virus.” With over five million free downloads of his novels, in 37 different languages, as well as in print, not to mention the three-going-on-four video games, a board game, one upcoming movie, and a “universe” that has franchised to multiple authors that have built upon his work in dozens of other novels… it is suffice to say that his goal is not far from being achieved. Characters sometimes use profanity (e.g., 'f**k' and 'sh*t') in the dialogue.ĭuring the course of the game, players may encounter a prostitute character whose dialogue is sprinkled with sexual innuendo ('You like what you see?,' a 'special price,' and 'I'll show you a good time,' etc.) though players may follow the woman to her room and exchange currency, the sequence is pre-empted by an in-game event. Large plumes of dark blood splash out of humans and mutants when injured blood may also stain walls, floors, and players' screen (the visor). Melee attacks involve close-up hand-to-hand combat using knives and bayonets. Players use pistols, shotguns, automatic rifles, crossbows, and pipe bombs to kill enemies lurking in the darkness.

Players assume the role of a young survivor who traverses the underground tunnels and above-ground remnants, battling humans and mutant creatures along the way. This is a first-person shooter, based on the novel Metro 2033, in which players engage in combat amid the shattered subway of a post-apocalyptic Moscow.

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