Title says it all. To the extent of what the games have let on, how was the rest of Earth affected by the Great War?

There is no answer. The closest you'll get is the hyperbole in the intro (Continents sinking, etc). Europe and the Middle East went at it before the great war, so there isnt much to speak of there.

Just look out of the window in Mothership Zeta... also laugh at the poor space effects out of the windows in the engineering core :laugh:

It dun goofed.

I have to agree, there is not much of an answer, i am thinking there is not much left of the planet.

Every country got nuked. Otherwise they would've tried to make contact with the Capital Wasteland/Vegas..

Who said they didn't?
There ain't really anyone worth contacting in the CW if you're a foriegn state, and House was asleep for over a century.

Vegas and the CW arn't the only areas alive, the West Coast seems to be the most likely target for contacting if any survived.

Though the intro for Fallout said every country was engulfed in atomic fire.

Fallout One Intro

War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from it lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into and economic superpower but war never changes. In the 21st century war was still waged for the resources that could be acquired, only this time the spoils of war were also its weapons, petroleum and uranium. For these resources China would invade Alaska. The US would annex Canada and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarrelling bickering nation states bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth. In 2077 the storm of World War had come again. In two brief hours most of the planet was reduced to cinders and from the ashes of nuclear devastation a new civilization would struggle to arise.

Fallout Two Intro

War. War never changes. The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted; too many humans and not enough space or resources to go around. The details are trivial and pointless, the reason as always purely human ones. The Earth was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands quickly raged out of control. Spears of Nuclear fire rained down from the sky. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the Earth. A quiet darkness fell across the planet lasting many years. Few survived the devastation..

Fallout 3 Intro

War. War never changes, since the dawn of human kind when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything from God to justice to simple psychotic rage. In the year 2077 after millennia of armed conflict the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation but it was not as sum had predicted “the end of the world.” Instead the apocalypse was simply the prologue of another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world but war, war never changes.

Its been 200 years after the world. They should've atleast sent some soldiers to the US to see whats up..

Thanks for the answers. I wonder how the other countries are faring. Maybe there'll be a game set in another country, someday.

I haven't played most Fallout games, but aren't people able to survive (according to Fallout SCIENCE!) nuclear bombs? Raul Tejada wasn't in a Vault when the bombs fell for example. Then again, his ghoulification made him sterile, so if Europe was ghoulified, then Europe may not last for longer then 200 years. Maybe Europe built robots, and when all ghouls died the robots just lived.. That would be kinda cool.

It would appear that some of the UK is still around. In Fallout 3 Tenpenny is from england and Colin Moriarty is irish.

Again, who said they didn't? Who said they didn't send them, they came saw nothing of value, nothing worth trading for or taking, and nothing resembling enough of a government to contact, and left.

Well to be honest, if Europe managed to pull though, would they really go overseas to a potential superpower and risk creating a new enemy? I mean they're probably fighting other newly emerged sates in their vicinity right now.

They did it before...


Never underestimate the profit motive.

Because in Fallout till New Vegas. There has been almost no contact with any other country with exception with Canada. Also try comparing the contacts the countries are making now compared to Fallout. Its obvious they have been screwed too.

I'm not saying they arent messed up - but there is no mention of them at all, positive or negative.

How do you know there is no (or almost no) contact? Answer, you don't.

Noone mentioned it sure, but they games only play for a short period, if a bunch of travellers with funny accents show up for a few days and leave, they arent going to keep talking about weeks/months/years afterwards. Just a bunch of wierd travelers, hey look, heres another weird traveller in one of those old time vault suits.

I am not saying that there is contact, but Absence of proof is not proof of absence!

There is no way another country could pull through a nuclear war on that kind of scale. It was a giant free for all, nobody would have been spared. And even if a country would have somehow not been devestated by nuclear bombs, then it would have collapsed anyways because of a lack of resources.

Im making a RP about Russia and its fate from the Great War, i want to develop the feeling of Post Apoc Russia in this RP, along with a faction War
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1167997-the-cossacks-rp-signup-thread/

Nor am I arguing that any country was "Spared" - ie, had no effect. But there is no proof, for or against, to indicate for example that the Nations of Morocco, France, or the UK do not exist in some form. Nor is there any proof, for or against, that a foreign power, be it one directly descended from one that we'd recognise or a new nation (like the NCR/Las Vegas Free Enterprise Zone) has visited the UK. That there is no proof supporting such a visitation or existence of the example nations is not proof that such a visitation hasnt occured, nor is it proof that they dont exist.

This sounds like an existential debate...

I'm fairly certain that this question has come up again, and that per the FO1 intro the rest of the world was pretty much annihilated. According to FO3 canon there might be some survivors in Ireland or England, but they traveled to DC for a better life, which tells you something.

Nah. The rest of the world is enjoying a blissful, utopian golden age of peace and fulfillment.
They just keep forgetting to tell America.

Or they could have travelled to find new opportunities, or even perhaps some fascist government has set up shop in the British Isles and is forcing people out, now that would make for an interesting game...