The Gold version (on Steam) is relatively pain free to run and looks much nicer, but requires the (unneeded by me) Steam overhead to play. Unfortunately GOG doesn't seem to have Gold just yet.
Nice graphics. Good play too... when allowed. Seems the game spends a great amount of time playing with itself. A few cut-scenes are okay, but this reaches the absurd. Every time I start enjoying what is happening the game rudely takes control from me and does it's own thing. As for the save games... I'm an old school retired coder, and I know it is not overly complicated to code for player controlled saves. I'm not sure if the new check-point save game system, now spreading like an evil virus, is due to laziness or simply incompetence on the coders part. I suspect this may also be the result of 'copy-paste' coding. Either way it really stinks. The Metro story itself is pretty decent, and the books are good reading.
