Developers have been making video games out of movies for years, but recently, that trend has morphed a bit; they're now making video game adaptations of books. Perhaps the best-known case is EA's upcoming adventure game Dante's Inferno, based on the 700-year-old poem of the same name, but it isn't the only one. THQ's upcoming Metro 2033, being developed by 4A Games and due for release in March, also finds its roots in literature--namely a science fiction book of the same name by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky.
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