How historically accurate is Fallout 4's Boston and Commonwealth?

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Fallout 4 takes place in a post-apocalyptic future version of Boston, but it still has quite a few identifying marks that tie it to our time. The game has a bevy of historical buildings and artifacts for players to discover, and imgur user two2teps went through dozens of them, comparing each one as directly as possible to images from non-apocalyptic Boston.

The sites are impressively recreated, though they're all more tightly packed together than in real life. Fallout's timeline splits from ours briefly after World War 2, so it's entirely possible that the Boston city government decided to relocate the Paul Revere Monument sometime before the bombs fell in 2077. It's also possible that this is a dang video game and Bethesda didn't want to cram a big, empty park into one of its most dense areas.

Reality's Paul Revere Monument

Fallout 4's Paul Revere Monument

Reality's Bunker Hill Monument

Fallout 4's Bunker Hill Monument

Reality's Massachusetts State House

Fallout 4's Massachusetts State House

Also seen in post-apocalyptic disrepair in The Last of Us.

Reality's Old State House

Fallout 4's Old State House

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan
Former GamesRadar+ News Writer

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.