4A focused their efforts on storytelling and atmosphere, intentionally avoiding any multiplayer gameplay to achieve their goal.
Glukhovsky gave the studio a lot of creative freedom. Glukhovsky chose 4A to adapt his novel due to the studio's location in Eastern Europe, and their expertise in developing first-person shooters. Metro 2033 was the debut title for 4A Games, whose founders had experience working on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl at GSC Game World. Players must also wear a gas mask to explore areas covered in fallout radiation, both underground and on the surface. In the game, players encounter human and mutant enemies, who can be killed with a variety of firearms. Players control Artyom, a man who must save his home station from the dangers lurking within the Metro. The story is based on Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel of the same name, where survivors of a nuclear war have taken refuge in the Metro tunnels of Moscow. Metro 2033 is a 2010 first-person shooter video game developed by 4A Games and published by THQ.
