Sydneysiders awoke this morning to find the entire city blanketed in a red haze. Turns out a dust storm was the culprit. But it reminded us of a couple of games we’d played recently.
My twitter feed was full of comments comparing Sydney’s “red dawn” to either Mars or a post-apocalyptic wasteland. So I figured I’d try to track down a few appropriate screenshots of Red Faction: Guerrilla and Fallout 3 to see how accurate the comparison actually is.
So up there is the Sydney CBD skyline, as snapped by Kate Geraghty for the Sydney Morning Herald. Below is another shot looking out over the harbour, taken by Shaun Brewer for News.com.au.
Now here’s Mars, as depicted in Red Faction: Guerrilla.
And here’s Fallout 3′s DC wasteland, post-nuking of Megaton, as captured by Kotaku friend Ben Abraham.
Clearly, neither game conveys the full extent of what we woke up to this morning. Red Faction fails to do justice to the sheer impenetrability of the Sydney dust storm, while Fallout simply isn’t red enough.
So, there you go, this morning Sydneysiders are living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland… on Mars.
Brandon
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 3:00 PMThe power clicked off in my house just as the sun started to expose the dust. I was scared as shit.
Jim
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 7:45 PMI was in canberra when taht happened before sydney and the first thing i thought of was red faction, but then the next morning on the news, Sydney looked like the sky from Parker in red faction
Dunnowhathuh
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 8:42 PMI left my window open overnight, was not cool. I’m gonna need one hell of a sponge if I’m gonna clean up this friggin dust.
tsengan
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:45 PMI was so disappointed. Darn developers couldn’t be bothered rendering a decent draw distance, so they hid everything in an orange fog.
But seriously, nature amazes us in such freaky ways.
rilz
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 11:02 PMreminded me of Pyrrhus Rise in killzone 2
SmartArse1
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 12:22 AMWhy is it that no one has mentioned or thought of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYxT9GM0fQ
It’s the first thing I thought of looking at that d’storm.
Dr_Stef
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 8:02 AMFrom the train to work it almost looked like a scene from Total Recall ;)
poedgirl
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 12:09 PMI’d say Sydney looked more like the Parker region from Red Faction, the screenshot is taken from what looks like the Dust region – the Parker region has a much more noticeable red tinge to it.
spiderlama
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 1:18 PMYesterday morning, I woke up and I thought I was in Quake 2!