As you may have seen, they’ve got The White House and Washington Monument and all, and the Jefferson plays a major role in the story as well. in Fallout 3 are obviously the district’s most famous features - the monuments of the inner Mall. metro area? In my opinion, much more accurately than expected considering it’s a post-apocalyptic version of an alternate-world D.C., with “World of Tomorrow” overtones. For example, I know someone who, when tasked with finding the Declaration of Independence, looked up its real location on Google Maps and used that to find it in the game. So how accurately does Fallout 3 portray the D.C. This is really a local developer setting a game in their own backyard, sort of like what Sega is doing with the Yakuza series.

People know what the monuments look like, but very little about what the city itself actually feels like.įallout 3 developer Bethesda takes their name from their home base of Bethesda, Maryland, which is right by D.C. is, being the capital of a world superpower and all, it’s actually not explored much in fiction beyond the Pentagon and the White House. That’s a very rare thing for us non-New York City or California residents - as famous as Washington D.C. When I first heard of Fallout 3, I was interested in it primarily because it’s set in the very place on Earth where I live.