Sadly tends to crash... still 5/5 for having awesome gameplay and vibe
When it came out I didn't check METRO out because it seemed like some "always dark horror shooter" like DOOM 3 - not my kind of game. Also all the "Your Mask can break" and "your ammo is also cash" seemed odd and annoying and I moved on. Just recently I watched Last of Us on TV and felt like "I need some post-apocalyptic game again" and gave it a try... and I LOVE IT! The story is nice, the handling and action feels awesome, even more considering its age, and especially for beeing situated in Metro-tunnels 80% of the time the levels never feel boring or monotonous. The characters are cool and the game has an awesome athmosphere without cheap jumpscares or unnecessary stress-scenes with harsh time limits that reduce the fun. Will play the other two as well and maybe even give the book a try. Oficially a METRO Fan now! :-)
Loved that game back in 2k and didn't touch it for >20yrs since... and its still great. Of course its outdated (don't you say lol) but a lot of stuff I didn't even remember I found amazing - for example the option to use flashbangs, a feature that I always associated with COD as the first "mainstream-FPS" to use that. I will not call it realistic (its far from that) but yet now I see many details I guess the real John Mullins (a real merc/military advisor that assisted the developers) brought to the table. They made it a fast-paced gory shooter with some very nice deails that I can appreciate today but that were lost on me back then as a kid. Sidenote: I'm actually doing security contracting work in Iraq at the moment I write this, making the whole situation sort of funny. ;-)
