Deep Silver today announced that Metro: Last Light has enjoyed a stunning first week of sales, significantly outselling its predecessor Metro 2033 over the same launch period, and earning stellar reviews from the gaming media on all three platforms.

• On PC, the game more than tripled Metro 2033’s worldwide sales over the same opening week period.
• In Australia & New Zealand, Metro: Last Light sold through more boxed units in its first week of sale than Metro 2033 sold in its’ first month of sales.
• Metro: Last Light has already shot to #1 in the weekly charts in multiple territories across Europe, and looks likely to repeat that success in Australia and New Zealand.

Metro: Last Light has garnered praise from players and critics alike, with all three formats enjoying a Metacritic score of 80+ and a slew of 9 / 10 reviews from GameSpot, Official PlayStation® Magazine, Game Trailers.com, Joystiq, The Escapist and more.

“Metro: Last Light is Deep Silver’s most critically acclaimed game to date,” said Menno van der Bil, International Commercial Director Deep Silver. “We are delighted with the deserved critical and commercial success the game has achieved, and hope that this success represents a statement of intent for future quality titles from Deep Silver. We would like to thank 4A Games for their talent, passion and commitment in helping us reach this milestone.”

“4A Games are honoured by the reception our latest project has received,” said Andrew Prokhorov, Creative Director at 4A Games. “We are a small but dedicated team who are lucky to have been given the creative freedom and support to make the kind of experience we dream, as gamers, of playing. Our work on Metro: Last Light continues with new single player DLC, and we look forward to revealing future projects from the team. We want to thank all the Metro fans for support we have received.”

Deep Silver announced earlier this week that 4A Games will support Metro: Last Light with a series of original single player content packs throughout the summer. Metro fans can pre-purchase all future  DLC at a discount with the Season Pass, now available on Steam, Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PlayStation® Network for AU$14.99/ 1200 MSP. The Season Pass also grants an additional weapon, the deadly Abzats, a semi-automatic shotgun rifle with a devastating secondary fire mode that unleashes six shells in one blast.

The Season Pass will include:

• The ‘Faction Pack’ and the ‘Chronicles Pack’, featuring new, original single player gameplay that expands on the Metro: Last Light universe and story
• The mysterious ‘Tower Pack’ ,  a unique solo challenge to Metro veterans
• The ‘Developer Pack’ , giving creative players some interesting tools with which to explore the world of Metro…

Metro: Last Light is available now for PlayStation®3, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC .