IGN: Fallout 3 vs. Metro 2033

To better grasp the horrors within, it's instructive to compare Metro 2033 to Fallout 3. In both, the remnants of civilization are besieged by mutants, bandits, and the invisible sickness of radiation poisoning. Yet while they are superficially similar, at their core the games are nothing alike. Fallout is riddled with in-jokes. Metro is as serious as cancer.

[kaveti6616]

I think based just on the summary above, I would prefer Fallout 3 to a game like Metro 2033 because I don't think I could play a game that was purely depressing and bleak. With that said, I found Fallout 3 to be pretty depressing itself, so if Metro 2033 is even more serious, then I don't think I would want to play it for too long. I stopped playing Fallout 3 because it was so bleak in my opinion.

[mrv321]

This what I posted in a Fallout New Vagas article

'While the apocolypse is all good and dark try to give us a bit more hope.'

And as such I fully agree with you, why am I even bothering to kill super mutants when the people I try and save will just end up killing each other in a few years.

Why do all games set in the future either have

1. BIG WAR 90% of people are dead
2. Everyone lives under a dictatorship and no one else will help you set them free.

My predictions on the future

1. It'll be just like now, the politicians will still lie and Big Brother will still suck
2. The TV's will be skinnier
3. Humans WILL NOT be mutated by disease/fallout/experiments
4. It will be better than today and today is pretty awsome for those in the west, but I do feel for those who suffer and that's one thing that'd be better in the future is Affrica improves and stone age goverments evolve. While I do admit that poverty will probably never be history I do be believe unnessecory suffering should be stopped.

[A Cupcake for Gabe]

Chrono Trigger has a post apocalyptic world nearly 16 years ago. And "3" in the name clearly shows that there were Fallout games prior.

[Numark]

yea...let's compare a linear 1st person shooter to an open world RPG that only share a similar setting...that is like comparing mario to dragon age orgins because they both have castles. I could see IGN doing it now, while mario takes a much more humorous and cartoony approach, dragon age orgins is more serious....

[Alcon Caper]

Well said.

[Baka-akaB]

what's even more annoying , is how it implies that fallout , hell even worse than fallout 3 alone created the post apocalyptic setting .

[ThanatosDMC]

Dragon Age sadly was very linear. I didnt want it to end but it did. Sad days.

[Aleusia]

I'd rather play fallout new vegas.

[ThanatosDMC]

I just hope it'll be like Bathesda's Fallout 3. I want to explore and hunt and loot. I hope it doesnt turn out to be like Borderlands i want real open world.

[Aleusia]

set in Las Vegas, it's perfect and Bethesda already said it would be done the same way as Fallout 3.

[peeps]

i could be wrong but is the whole game based in the metro? (first time i've heard of the game) if so the fact that the world outside is a wastland won't really matter all that much... and wudnt it get a bit boring? i mean the metro's in fallout 3 did my head in lol

i'll keep an eye on it but for my post appolyptic fix for 2010 i'm waiting on more details for fallout: new vegas

[mrv321]

The Metro's in this game are sort of like a safe heaven for humanity as the outside world is erradiated. Survivors go out into the wastes to get food and supplies.

Regarding the boring metro system... I disagree, look of Bioshock I guarantee to some it sounded like sewers but they made that bioshock world FANTASTIC. There's no reason not to do the same with Metros in this game giving each it's own feel depending who inhabited them.

For example SCIENCE GUYS ONE=Cleaner, less religous
While the christian one might have a statue or a bible and cermonies.

[Henry Cain]

I think fallout is better. There is so much you can do. Plus I don't want to spend all of my time underground. I enjoyed traveling in the wasteland.

[food86]

is metro 2033 an xbox eclusive?

if it is chalk up another must play game for my 360.

[AliTheBrit19]

Metro 2033 is a Xbox 360 exclusive right?

[Ninji]

They both fail.

[karan8624]

Metro... Fallout was known for them