Large tracts would likely be underwater. No underground vaults east of Ponchatoula due to the low water table but other means of survival would exist. Wealthy families would get together to charter a couple of cruise ships and get the hell out to sea in September.
I had the same thing with Fallout 3, especially since I’ve been playing it on and off the last few months before visiting DC for the Daily Show rally. I simply could not hear or read the name Falls Church without thinking that they took it from the game. Completely irrational, I know, but even so.
Gameplay-wise, St. Louis would be a good location for another sequel. A good player could use the Monsanto building to expand on the Vault 22 quest; an evil player could choose to create another New Madrid quake.
And the best part is that nobody’d need to drop a bomb on New Orleans to turn it into a depraved hellhole of corruption, crime, and chaos. It’s perfect for a Fallout game!
Yeah, when I hear Falls Church I immediately think “Do I have room in my inventory for suits of power armor?”
Two words: mutant gators.
Two motre words: voodoo ghouls.
Fallout: Moscow
See the post-apocalyptic world through the perspective of those godless Reds.
Or perhaps “Stop! Or I’ll say stop again!”
Or Fallout: Shanghai, since the Reds in Fallout’s War were Chinese.
I’ve never played Fallout, but years ago I spent many an hour on the PC playing GTA: Vice City. When I later visited Miami for the first time, I had an almost disconcerting feeling of déjà vu and instinctively knew how to get around in the city.
I forgot about that. What was Russia’s role in that war? Was that ever explained?
I’m not sure they had a role. Searching for Russia in the timeline gets 0 results.
Hmmm, talking of that Fallout timeline…Interstate 15 shouldn’t exist in the game, actually. It wasn’t built in Nevada until between 1963 and 1967, by which time the US had probably broken up into the Thirteen Commonwealths. What exists in the game as I-15 or “the Long 15” should really be US-91.
ETA: And definitely not I-215 and I-515, built in the 90’s.
I went to Paris in September, and found I knew were things were in relation to eachother. I was constantly recognizing things I hadn’t seen before. It took me looking for Nazi sniper towers and escape routes up buildings to realize it was The Saboteur that gave me the familiarity.
The .40 S&W is a 10mm. It uses the same caliber projectiles as the 10mm cartridge. In the alternate timeline, what we refer to as the .40 might well have been invented instead of the 10mm rather than derived from it. The people of that timeline might well refer to it as the 10mm. I kind of get the impression from having played Fallout 3 that the 10mm is the 9mm Parabellum of their world. That is to say, it’s been around for a long time and there’s an assload of guns designed to use it.
It always seemed to me that on the Fallout boards there was a strong Russian following. I even saw a copy of the game in Russian available for sale on eBay once upon a time.
For my money, a traveling Fallout franchise would kick a lot more ass than the theme Monopoly sets. Like Cassidy, I too wonder if Texas survived the war.
Already exists. It’s called “Metro 2033”.
I was about to suggest “Fallout: Boston,” but then I imagined using the Pip-Boy 3000 to navigate the Bostonian “road” “system” and nearly killed myself. 
Oh man, last week I drove through a neighborhood in Flint (MI’s other hellhole city) and it seriously looked like something out of Fallout. The houses that weren’t flat out gone were split between burned out shells and run down ramshackle looking things that I’d rather be homeless than live in. There was even a half burned down semi-demolished elementary school.
The cartridges in Fallout are 10mm Auto IIRC, which is a different cartridge to .40 S&W even though it fires the same projectile. But I think you, myself, Johnny L.A., Bobotheoptimist and Todderbob are the only people on the boards who actually care. 