# Fallout 3 ads: Are they geographically specific?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917 "2008-10-14T18:27:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917/1 "2008-10-14T18:27:32Z")

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There are ads for some new post-apocalyptic game called “Fallout 3” displayed prominently in the Washington DC subway system, and one of the posters shows a blasted Capitol building over a ruined Mall.

I’m curious whether the advertising for this game in other cities features the destruction of those cities’ landmarks instead of the DC monuments? I.e., a toppled Stature of Liberty, a broken Gateway Arch, a fallen Golden Gate Bridge? Or is the thrill of destroying Washington so universal that those ads are nationwide? 😛

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917/2 "2008-10-14T18:31:12Z")

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I think it is just set in Washington, they same way the earlier ones were set in Reno and San Francisco.

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917/3 "2008-10-14T18:46:49Z")

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Yes, it is set in DC and its environs.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917/4 "2008-10-14T18:51:08Z")

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Ah, OK. Thanks!

Mods: My Q has been answered; perhaps this thread should be closed.

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**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917/5 "2008-10-14T19:10:15Z")

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In case anyone missed the news, it’s due in stores Oct 28.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917/6 "2008-10-15T02:12:15Z")

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> [@wolfman](#):
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> I think it is just set in Washington, they same way the earlier ones were set in Reno and San Francisco.

The first one was mostly SoCal. Fallout 2 was California (mostly Northern), most of Nevada and Oregon. Fallout Tactics was most of the middle of the US. Van Buren was supposed to be Utah/Colorado. BoS I have no clue.

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-ads-are-they-geographically-specific/467917/7 "2008-10-15T12:40:11Z")

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> The first one was mostly SoCal. Fallout 2 was California (mostly Northern), most of Nevada and Oregon. Fallout Tactics was most of the middle of the US. Van Buren was supposed to be Utah/Colorado. BoS I have no clue.

And Wasteland (the game from which Fallout drew it’s inspiration, seeing as Fallout was originally going to be a Wasteland sequel had EA been willing to give the name back to Interplay for a reasonable sum) took place near the California/Nevada border.