• Grand Theft Auto 4
  • -vs-
  • Fallout 3
  • Fallout 3 is better than Grand Theft Auto 4
    Overall Comparison
    There are so many ways to describe how Fallout 3 is better than GTA 4.  Instead of doing a long drawn out comparison, let's just do some quick hits.

    Character Customization:

    Fallout 3 - Stats, armor, facial construction and haircut
    GTA4  - A few clothes, two different pairs of glasses.

    Story:

    Fallout 3 - Vault dweller first steps out of his underground home/prison, finds an apocalyptic wasteland and fights for survival and eventually saves humanity
    GTA4 - Niko Bellic arrives in America to visit his cousin and eventually reveals his own objective to find the man that betrayed his troop in the military.  It's actually a refreshing change of pace from the old tired "Start small and work your way big" storylines of Vice City and San Andreas.

    Weapons

    Fallout 3 -Rifles, pistols, shotguns, machine guns, gattling guns, lazer rifles/pistols, rocket launchers, junk-shooters (not THAT kind of junk ;) ), mines, grenades, knives, swords, flamethrowers, hammers, flame swords, animal claws, single-handed chainsaws, nukes, and molerat exploding sticks.
    GTA4 - Rifles, pistols, rocket launchers, shotguns, sniper rifles, knives.

    Violence

    GTA4 - Drive around Liberty City, running over people.  Beat up people.  Crash so hard into someone that they die.  Shoot up everyone
    Fallout 3 - Kill virtually everybody.  Shoot kids.  Watch people's heads explode in slow motion.  Shoot more kids.  Put grenades in people's pants.  Throw grenades at kids.


    I think I made my point :D
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Comments

  • On the opposite side of things, GTA4 you can pick up at any time, play for 20 minutes and just run around and wreak havok on Liberty City.  For Fallout 3, you can't really do that.  It's a much deeper game and as a result, isn't as friendly for the person who just wants to goof around real quick.

    But I like a game to have a deep story and really leave you with a lasting impression after your done.  Fallout 3 has definitely done that.  GTA4 has not.
    justin
    justin  Level 29It's All RelativeJournalistWeblog CommenterAlways RightExtra Commentary
    3/3/2009 11:03 am
  • I really wish there was a "=" sign for comparing games, too, because I would use that a lot.

    But then that would break the motto.
    Futil1ty
    Futil1ty  Level 8
    3/3/2009 6:03 pm
    • I actually had an equal comparison in early iterations of the site, but it made things a little more complicated.  I like the fact that having only greater than and less than makes you take a stance on comparisons made.

      Hmm, I guess equal kind of exists if someone says game A is better than game B and the number of agreements and disagreements are equal.
      justin
      justin  Level 29It's All RelativeJournalistWeblog CommenterAlways RightExtra Commentary
      3/3/2009 7:03 pm

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