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Stalin Subway (Russian title "Метро-2", "Metro-2") is a first-person shooter video game based in a fictionalized postwar Moscow.

The game was published in Russia by Buka Entertainment and Orion games in September 2005.

Setting

The game 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 building at Lubyanka Street, the Kremlin, Moscow State University and Stalin's bunker.

Plot

In this game you play as the soldier Gleb Suvorov, a member of the KGB and the mysterious officer Natalia Mihaleva. Suvorov discovers that high-ranking officers want to detonate a secret nuclear weapon during the Bolshevik Assembly. He rescues his father from the KGB prison, thwarts the plot and saves the Stalin, the ruling Communist Party and many innocent civilians.

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.

Development

The art and design team used photos of Moscow for realism. A sequel Red Veil in which players take on the role of the protagonist's wife was released in 2006.

Reception

The game received generally negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator GameRankings, the game had a user score of 5% based on x reviews.