dcrider
November 21st, 2008, 11:11 PM
Fallout 3 Hits Metro Center (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/10/fallout_3_hits_metro_center.html)
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By Mike Musgrove (http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/blogs/techblog/musgrove_80x88.gif)
Don't get too freaked out, commuters: It's just a video game.
Local game studio Bethesda Softworks has blanketed the advertising space in downtown's Metro Center Metrorail station with some dark and kinda disturbing images of DC landmarks, such as a bombed-out-looking Capitol building and Washington Monument, lifted from its upcoming game title Fallout 3.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/10/08/PH2008100801999.jpg
Fallout 3 takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Washington in the year 2277 and will give players the thrill of fighting mutated monsters on the streets of downtown DC. (The underground transit system in Washington actually plays a part in the game, though I don't believe the game's design team used the actual lines we ride today in pre-apocalyptic 2008.)
For video game fans, it's one of the most-anticipated titles of the year. That's partly because the game's design team is the same one that was behind the blockbuster video game Oblivion, and partly because the upcoming title is a return to a well-loved computer game series that was popular a decade ago...
More... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/10/fallout_3_hits_metro_center.html)
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By Mike Musgrove (http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/blogs/techblog/musgrove_80x88.gif)
Don't get too freaked out, commuters: It's just a video game.
Local game studio Bethesda Softworks has blanketed the advertising space in downtown's Metro Center Metrorail station with some dark and kinda disturbing images of DC landmarks, such as a bombed-out-looking Capitol building and Washington Monument, lifted from its upcoming game title Fallout 3.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/10/08/PH2008100801999.jpg
Fallout 3 takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Washington in the year 2277 and will give players the thrill of fighting mutated monsters on the streets of downtown DC. (The underground transit system in Washington actually plays a part in the game, though I don't believe the game's design team used the actual lines we ride today in pre-apocalyptic 2008.)
For video game fans, it's one of the most-anticipated titles of the year. That's partly because the game's design team is the same one that was behind the blockbuster video game Oblivion, and partly because the upcoming title is a return to a well-loved computer game series that was popular a decade ago...
More... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/10/fallout_3_hits_metro_center.html)