I often wonder this about games, like i did about Fallout 3, but how accurate is the in-game world, compared to the real world. Like, will I be able to find my Aunt's house in the game? (or where it should be, due to the alternate timeline of the Fallout Universe).

The Wikipedia article mentions the town of Primm, and the Hoover Dam.
So I was curious as to where Primm irl, so I looked it up on google.

From the given information, I estimated that the Mojave Wasteland would be about 640 square miles...

...that's really, really big!

So I got walking directions from Primm to Las Vegas, and it said travel time was 13 hours!


So what I'm wondering is how accurate is the map, and is it to scale with the real world?

It doesn't have a real world scale, if it did it would take hours for you to walk across New Vegas (let alone the terrain around it). I imagine like Fallout 3 the general layout will be a fairly accurate representation but the key word there is "representation."

but do you think i would be able to find my Aunt's house? she lives in one of the Northwestern suburbs

No, the world isn't created at a 1:1 scale, as I said if they did this it would take hours to walk from one end of the city to the other and even longer for the desert itself. To include every building, road, etc. would be a monumental undertaking.

I lived in Twentynine Palms, California which is situated right there in the Mojave Desert. The environments are very similar to real-life (Just about spot on to be honest.) :tops:

http://www.falloutnow.de/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1528 vs. http://www.geosalliance.com/iercc/mojave_desert-4.jpg

EDIT: Geographically we'll probably only see very well-known places, that said you probably won't be able to find your Aunt's house.

I doubt it mate =/

The main thing I'm worried about here is the size of Vegas itself in game. It needs to be about the same size as the DC ruins in Fallout 3 to be taken seriously, but I'm expecting something not much bigger than Paradise Falls.

Hopefully I'm wrong and it is in fact the DC ruins of New Vegas. You need an area like that in these games to break them up a bit.

I figure it'll be more the size of The Pitt or bigger.

DC Ruins looked huge on the map, but considering you spent more time underneath them than actually IN them it isn't a fair comparison.
Also, New Vegas can be as huge, the Strip will be smaller I think. anyway we'll have to see for ourselves in 8 or 10 days

I went to Jr High in Vegas, lived on the corner of Lamb and Lajolla. Be a little funky if the house was overrun with Raiders or something. Though if the Circle K was still there that'd be cool, the guy that owned it used to let us play the quarter slots after school.

but an exact model is definitely not impossible. they did a pretty dang near accurate recreation of Manhattan in [Prototype]. and if you think about Fallout 3, it did take hours to walk across the city, even if you have an already planned route, and you didn't consider loading time, encounters, etc.





of course, the footprint of Washington DC is 68.3 square miles, while the footprint of Las Vegas (modern day) is 225 square miles.

no. they didnt look at and design every single house in las vegas

of course not, but i wanna show her and say "does this look anything like your street?"