New PhysX Powered Metro 2033 Screenshots Released

• December 4, 2009
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THQ has released fifteen new screenshots of the PC/Xbox 360 post apocalyptic shooter.We recently covered Metro 2033 when it’s publisher was announced and learned that the PC version of the game will be featuring some impressive PhysX “Metro 2033 boasts some of the most advanced graphics and PhysX effects we’ve ever seen,” said Ujesh Desai, vice president of GPU business at NVIDIA. “From what we’ve seen so far, this will be a showcase PC gaming title for 2010.”

from nzone.com Metro 2033 game information page:

Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 utilizes NVIDIA PhysX to weave a story of intensive underground survival were the fate of mankind rests in your hands.

In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth’s surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age.

An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside.

You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind.

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Tags: Metro 2033, Nvidia, PC, PhysX