Metro Exodus writer reveals he wants the game to help bring down Putin

THE author behind the massively popular Metro series of books and video games hopes the next game in the series helps bring down Vladimir Putin and the Russian leader's "banana republic" regime.

Dmitry Glukhovsky told Sun Online that Russia's leaders are "a corrupt regime that just wants to be in power forever", and is using "propaganda, lies and misinformation" to keep the people under control -- but he hopes that the next game in the series, Metro Exodus, will reach Russia's youth and help them see the truth.

"Nobody believes in the future of Russia, especially not the people who rule it," Glukhovsky says.

Metro: Exodus is a way to talk to the "younger audience" in Russia to "make them more immune to the manipulations of the state media".

As the game's story unfolds, the nature and scale of the lies being told by authority figures become clear, and that has parallels in today's world that he hopes gamers will see.

As in the games and novels, the current regime needs to "create an enemy", because "the image of an enemy makes us feel stable... but prevents us from knowing who we really are" according to Glukhovsky.