Envisage you're on your morning exchange in the Moscow metro system when a nuclear blast explodes. The world as you recognize it is over, but, lucky for you, you are in separately of the burrow system that doubles as a nuclear dugout. How will you live? What will life be akin to as you try to persist subversive? What will occur to the world above, and will you yet see it again?

It's an attractive premise that, thematically as a minimum, has been done before in the popular Fallout license. Where the just-revealed Metro 2033 fluctuates is in its setting. Unlike Fallout, where a great contract of the game takes place on destroys surface, Metro 2033 places you in the shoes of a survivor whose life and missions will happen mostly underground.