I realized all these places, Primm, Goodsprings, Boulder City, Nipton, are all real. in fact if you look at Las Vegas area in Google Maps (look at it in Satellite mode) it looks so much like the map in Fallout:NV. I didn't know the towns were real places....there's even a Buffalo Bill casino in Primm (with a rollercoaster too). the developers really did their research.

Thats one thing thats so creepy about fallout 3 and NV(cant speak for 1 and 2 never played them) is some of the realism in it,like watching a scary movie and realizing it could really happen.

Pretty much every location in every Fallout is based on a real location. They sometimes go by different names, LA= Boneyard.

Necropolis is Bakersfield, woot woot. The Mojave outpost road is the road I take from Bako to Vegas.

I always thought in FO3 it must be weird for anyone who lives in Washington DC and who knows the locations, to see what it could look like after a nuclear attack!

In 20 years I'd like to see the technology to make like Fallout World. Like, Fallout, but instead of just one massive map, take like NYC, Mojave, DC, Moscow, Berlin, Hong Kong, and some other places and you travel between them by monorail/plane/boat ect.
Could you imagine how difficult and time consuming and impossible it would be? But awesome.

Sloan's a real place?!? If I ever go to Vegas I'm avoiding that

New York + Fallout = Epic

I went to DC after playing FO3. Man the trains creeped me out! They looked almost exactly the same (but no ghouls, well, not many). The biggest difference is the scale of the map.

And Rivet City wasn't there... :unsure:

I found it very interesting to use Google Maps street view to go on a "walk" around the area, first thing learnt is that the real map is a LOT BIGGER than the games one.

My cousin posted a pic of her next to a map and I didn't know why the map looked famliar, I read the names on the map, it was the D.C. Metro map.

And they say video games don't teach anything :laugh:

One of the reasons I'll always like FO3 better than FNV. I'm from the DC area and the deja what?!? feeling you get strolling around the Capital Wastes is priceless. Most things are where they should be in real life. I use to navigate by landscape alone. Lots of fun exploring your backyard in a game. Tranquility Lane even exists (try looking up Pleasant Circle Rockville, MD on Google Map- it's about a mile or so from Bethesda Soft/Zenimax).


The Metro is dead on! Some of the stations are fictionalized but they make sense. I used to take the Metro a lot and always imagined how scary the tunnels would be to traverse in the dark (especially after the Apocalypse!).

I learned a lot about New Vegas by using Mapquest although the Google Map is more detailed.

I'm really eager to visit some places from NV if I'm ever in the Vegas area. The 188 Trading Post for example. Just imagine how cool it would be to actually stand there, knowing the NV situation.

Edit: Assuming you're not hit by a car.