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Fallout 3 vs. Reality: Photo Comparison
How well does our favorite post apocalyptic wasteland compare to the real Washington D.C.?
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Chiropteran
- 11 months 25 days ago
There are two reasons I can think of for differences between the real thing and the game. First, duplicating the real thing exactly would take years. Far too many details. Second, with the differences, we're reminded that this is a fantasy, not historical commentary. I wrote a book once, where Detroit was the movie capital, and it was McDonald's Emerald Arches. Just in case someone takes offense at perceived trivial similarities......
stagemonkey
- 11 months 25 days ago
The Washington Monument is nowhere near correct. If you've ever taken the tour of the monument, one of the tidbits they tell you is that it is the world's tallest freemasonry structure. What this means is that the entire thing is basically a pile of stones held together only by its' own weight. There is no mortar, no concrete, and *NO* rebar framework, as depicted in the game/photo. If there were holes anywhere near the size of those in the above photo, the monument would just collapse.
novamonk
- 11 months 25 days ago
They most likely didn't do a more accurate model of the fountain, because of the nudity. Bethesda regulates their forums to discourage people from modding nudity into their game, which is a smart PR move with ESRB. And yes, the three statues do break Beth's definition of
"Nudity is defined as showing genitalia and/or women's nipples. This includes nudity that is completely exposed or visible through semi-transparent materials."
Since they don't want mods to have nudity, they wouldn't go and put nudity in there to begin with.
"Nudity is defined as showing genitalia and/or women's nipples. This includes nudity that is completely exposed or visible through semi-transparent materials."
Since they don't want mods to have nudity, they wouldn't go and put nudity in there to begin with.
cart00n
- 11 months 25 days ago
The point is, this is an alternate universe - which explains the inconsistencies with reality. On top of that, if this were a "real" depiction of a nuclear wasteland, none of these structures would be standing AT ALL, which would make for a real boring landscape...
rowanredwood
- 11 months 25 days ago
this game did a great job of depicting pre- and post- January 20th 2009. jokes aside they did a great job and this is a great article, and leaves me wondering about the fountains now.
herodotus2006
- 11 months 24 days ago
The changes with the fountain are far too elaborate and designed to be purely aesthetic. Think we'll find out more with the first DLC in the new year.
Easternwind54
- 11 months 24 days ago
The reason for the fountain is because of the alternate history. I watched the commentary, and anything built before the nuclear war was made as accurately as possible. Anything after the war they took liberties with because history has changed, and people would have changed with it.
barrage7667
- 11 months 24 days ago
yea it seems a lot of teh statues are greekish, rite neaar rivet city are two statues tht remind me of greece alot i live in DC ive been where the statues are and there are no statues
barrage7667
- 11 months 24 days ago
oh yea and i went to my house...there were a bunch of cannibals living in it with a shack filled with "strange meat" so sad, so very sad
barrage7667
- 11 months 24 days ago
also 8 houses were missing but mine was still there!!! they even had the marks i put on the mailbox rite...ah when ur 6 and u have a permanent marker anything can happen, good times
shinytimegang
- 11 months 23 days ago
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magicwalnuts0
- 11 months 22 days ago
Should have put the anchorage memorial and compared it to the iwo jima one, cause its pretty awesome how they did that.
genius game
genius game
UnknownTeenAngst
- 11 months 22 days ago
Fallout 3 is such a sick game but i dont kno which one i shud buy fo3 or L4D? Please tell me what u think i shud get. ~thx Jonathan Insane~ ;D
stopandstare
- 11 months 21 days ago
maybe for the fountain photo, the designer didnt want to look gay so he created the statues as women instead.
stopandstare
- 11 months 21 days ago
oh and UnknownTeenAngst definitely get fallout 3. in my opinion, it rapes left 4 dead in the asshole.
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