As I'm playing through both of the games at roughly the same time, I am finding a very very large similarity in the two personalities of Andrew Ryan and Robert House.

Though this may change the farther I get, I've never seen Mr. Ryan's face, he is merely a smug face on a screen. I recall the voices being very similar, and there is even an easter egg achievement for Mr. House that refers to him.


What do you guys think?

Erm... He was party designed similary to Ryan?

There's a further link in that both actors were on the same TV show.

But it's quite clear Mr. House is an expy of Howard Hughes, whereas Ryan is a thinly veiled expy of Ayn Rand. I'd say they differ more than they share, House is a statist who's style of government is a form of enlightened absolutism whereas Ryan's "style of governement" is libertarian (or was before the contradictions inherent in his utopia forced him to compromise his values).