Pocket Gamer: It's not the first-person survival horror games on console, but DaSuppaStudios's Metro 2033 Wars for Windows Phone is based on the same novel as those titles.
As far as post-nuclear games go, I (David Lucas, The Gaming Ground) am most familiar with the Fallout games. I have heard of the first-person shooter title Metro 2033 before. Metro 2033 is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky about survivors of a nuclear war settled underground in the Moscow Metro, with the remaining people fending off mutants and warring factions. The game “Metro 2033 Wars: Born In The Dark” is a strategy RPG based on the FPS/novel but traversing through the Metro system isn’t easy in this genre.
Well, at least it´s a rather good mobile game (I´ve seen worse, and I´ve seen better).
DZ:
Metro 2033 Wars: Born in the Dark is a real puzzler. It isn’t a puzzle genre title and it certainly never makes the player think to much. Instead I’m puzzling how this game came to exist in the form that I play today on my iPhone. Metro 2033 Wars is a turn based strategy game based in the universe of Dmitri Glukhovsky’s book series Metro 2033, although you may be more familiar with the first person shooters developed by 4A a couple of years ago that went by the same name. The concept sounds like something that should work, the leftover remains of humanity creating factions was one part that really drew me into the series from the beginning. Seeing how those factions are differentiated visually and mechanically sounds incredibly exciting but instead the bigger picture ended up being largely distasteful and inconsistent with what has been depicted in that world in the past. I wish that was the only poor thing that I could say about the title too, but the combat is a mindless slog and the management aspects are balanced in favor of advertisements. Each of these components alone would make me dislike a game but summing everything together creates an experience that is never enjoyable to play.
TapStar Interactive and DaSuppa Games are proud to announce the worldwide release of an all-new strategy RPG, based on the in-depth world, of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s best-selling novel series, “Metro 2033”, now available on iOS®, and AndroidTM.
