The Stalin Subway

The Stalin Subway (Russian title Метро-2, "Metro-2") is a first-person shooter video game developed by G5 Software and Orion Games. It was published by Buka Entertainment in Russia in September 2005 and in the United States in October of that year.

The Stalin Subway
Developer(s)G5 Software
Publisher(s)Buka Entertainment
Designer(s)Nikolay Sitnikov
SeriesThe Stalin Subway
EngineOrion Engine
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
  • RUS: September 29, 2005
Genre(s)First-person shooter

Gameplay

The game features standard first-person shooter gameplay. Players can acquire a variety of both melee weapons and firearms, mostly based on Soviet weapons such as a Makarov pistol or PPSh-41 sub-machine gun.

Plot

The game is, alongside You Are Empty (2006) and the games in the Metro 2033 series, one the games set in and around the Moscow Metro system. It takes place in 1952 in Moscow in the Soviet Union, under Joseph Stalin who has been in power for over 30 years. The game focuses on a fictional internal plot against Stalin and the Soviet government. Locations include the Metro subway stations including the secret Metro-2 line, the KGB Lubyanka Building, the Kremlin, the Moscow State University, and Stalin's bunker.

The protagonists are the MGB officer Gleb Suvorov and the GRU officer Natalia Mihaleva. Suvorov discovers that a conspiracy of high-ranking officers want to detonate a secret nuclear weapon sent via D-6 during the Party assembly. He rescues his father from the KGB prison and thwarts the plot.

Development

The art and design team used photos of Moscow for realism.[1] Before E3 2005 GameSpot noted that its "combination [of] historical fiction plotline and modern FPS gameplay sets it apart from the typical sci-fi or military shooters that dominate the market today" and showed interest in way the physics engine allowed "different bullet penetration abilities for each weapon.[2]

Reception

Released on Steam, the game received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics outside of Russia.

Sequel

A sequel Stalin Subway: Red Veil in which players take on the role of the protagonist's wife Lena following his disappearance was released in 2008. Eurogamer Germany gave it a rating of 1 out of 10.[3]

References
  1. "Stalin Subway". Gamona. 6 August 2004. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. "The Stalin Subway E3 2005 Preshow Report". GameSpot. 17 May 2006. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  3. "The Stalin Subway 2: Red Veil". Eurogamer. 1 January 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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