TechnicalPacifist wrote:
Yeah, I was thinking about buying it. The game got me hooked on post-apocalyptism again.
The fact that it's a Nazi avatar kinda creeps me out - Still, it's a pretty awesome gas mask.
Despite them being Nazi's, I love the helmet design too. And the fourth Reich symbol looks awesome. They show it in the Metro map in the book. It looks a little like the Swastika but with three prongs. The prongs come out of the center at a weird angle, so if you weren't told that it was the symbol of the Fourth Reich, you wouldn't notice that it's a modified swastika.
I'm about 50 pages in. Hunter just went North to confront the Dark Ones after Sukhoi(Alex in the game) reveals that their influence is driving him insane. I bought mine imported from England. It isn't out here yet. But I love Metro so much, and I already know much of the story(It's different from the game in areas. Although I have not played the game, I do know much of the story). I can't wait til Metro 2034(Hunter didn't die. He's the protagonist of Metro 2034), and the spinoff books which were released this year but were not written by Dmitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033: Putevye Znaki, Metro 2033: Temnye Tunneli, and Metro 2033: Piter. One takes place in Moscow, another in Minsk(the capital of Belarus), and another in Saint Petersburg, Russia. People survived in the subways of those two other cities, so maybe there are people still alive in other metro systems around the world. I'm so obsessed with the Metro universe, my signature is based off something Khan says to Artyom at the end of the book regarding the Dark Ones. If they aren't released, I am currently learning Russian so I'll be able to read them once my Russian is better. And I'm learning German. Germany already has Metro 2034. They get the Metro books much earlier than us.
This is where I got my copy. They ship for free and have it for the best price. The book is an import from the UK as it won't come out in America until November.
http://www.cdwow.us/books/dmitry-glukhovsky-metro-2033/dp/4778781#bc=cbad
Oh, and I made a Metro thread here:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt122631.html
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