Metro
Metro: 2033 and Metro: Last Light depict Russia after it was obliterated by atomic bombs in a nuclear war. The war caused what was left of the population to retreat underground to the metro stations, setting up a whole society interconnected via tunnels. Meanwhile, the surface is quite literally a nuclear winter, hit hard by the post-apocalypse with nary a sign of human life. What makes Metro so brutal, and at the same time so unnerving, is not the nuclear war itself, or its implications, but the unknown. The series deals with the sort of stuff you would expect from a post-nuclear war: mutated creatures, and crazed survivors fighting for control. But at the same time, it also deals with more unknown factors. With the survivors in Moscow being so severely cut off from the rest of humanity, it’s hard to tell what’s really going on anywhere else, and at times, it leads to paranoia and encounters with strange phenomena that can’t be explained.
