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How accurate is the game Fallout 3 to real world structures?
I was playing Fallout 3 and when I got to the lincoln memorial and all those places I started wondering how accurate the models of the buildings in the game are to the ones in real life (besides it being in the future).If someone were so inclined could they compare the maps in the game to where it would be in real life?
I was really pleased by a lot of the textures and objects in the game, especially the Metro, where the platforms and station tunnels were instantly recognizable, but not spot on accurate. I laughed when I saw the textures they used for the trains themselves - Looked just like an old New York City subway car! DC subway lines are identified by color, not letter/numbers. There is no 'white' line, but there is a red, blue, green, orange and yellow. Many of the station names were correct, some don't exist.
Things were of course not to scale. For example, the Dupont Circle Metro station is one of the deepest - the escalator goes on forever - but they don't show the escalator as being that long in the game, or the platforms for that matter. But the general look of the stations are close. They didn't just pull that design out of thin air.
Most of the buildings of course just are not the same. Some of the little brownstones with the boarded up windows looked very like similar buildings in DC (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cooltownstudios.com/images/dc-beardenarts-newfacade.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cooltownstudios.com/site_index/2008/10/&usg=__ahVx_WN9WEH5I3gO2D38k1N60sU=&h=421&w=518&sz=66&hl=en&start=10&um=1&tbnid=OZ54aXdF0X7mzM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3DH%2Bstreet%2BDC%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26um%3D1 ) But if you think about it, the game is set 200 years after a nuclear war happened on what looked like a 1940's era Washington DC. The cars, the clothes, the music - all completely retro. They can use that excuse to play with how things look 
The landmarks in the DC downtown, were close enough to be recognizable, but not horribly accurate. For example, there is a huge traffic circle with a fountain in the center of Dupont Circle, but the fountain in the game is just similar to the real one. There *are* underground tunnels that connect many government buildings, though.
The general location of the monuments is kinda sorta correct, but again - scale. The Pentagon (Citadel) is not quite as near the water as the game places it, but it's across the river from the Jefferson rotunda. You can't see the Washington Monument from what would be the Megaton area. It's not *that* close.
The Vaults are not that far fetched an idea. In parts of NYC you can still see the nuclear fallout shelter signs on older buildings. The Greenbriar in West Virginia is a famous fallout bunker, similar to Vaults, that was meant to be where the US government would move in the event of an atomic bombing http://www.greenbrier.com/site/bunker.aspx.
Just like the game, not everyone gets into a Vault 
Come visit Washington DC and see all the monuments for yourself. The best time to come is in the spring when the Cherry Blossom Festival is running!
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