When the Lone Wanderer emerges from Vault 101 at the beginning of the Fallout 3, he or she encounters a rural landscape that is meaningless, violent, and impoverished. Suffice it to say that nearly all of Fallout ’s cities and Fallout 4 ’s large settlements meet most of these criteria: all of Fallout ’s urban communities exhibit above-average population densities, specialization and trade, a system of writing, and some form of governance.Īll that is to say, the post-apocalyptic urbanism of Fallout generally comports with what we know about early human urbanization. We won’t go through them here, but you can find a full list of the criteria in the above link. Gordon Childe sets out 10 general metrics for urban cities. In The Urban Revolution, archaeologist V.
Second, we could set aside population as an issue altogether. Even the earliest known cities-take for example, Jericho -had estimated populations ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 in 9,000 BCE.īusy, densely populated concept art for Megaton (Fallout 3/Nukapedia) The settlements that dot Fallout 4 ’s Commonwealth all have maximum populations of 21. Other large communities like Megaton, Rivet City, and Diamond City have approximately 50 residents each. In terms of actual visible inhabitants, even the largest of the Fallout cities-the urban area of New Vegas-has fewer than 150 known residents. It’s worth first asking, does the Fallout universe even have cities? On the one hand, what we call “cities” in Fallout are quite small.
In the spirit of this tradition, we wanted to ask: how realistic are Fallout ’s cities? Where your typical human would rather spend a Friday night doing strange things like “hang out with friends” and “go out,” your average Fallout fan is likely spending his or her night asking “Could super mutants exist?” or debating the ethical merits of Fallout 4 ’s factions. Even by the bizarre standard set by other fandoms, the fandom surrounding the Fallout video game series is weird.
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