An Army Journalist’s Own Fallout 3 in Iraq
Jan 18, 2010 - By Jared Newman
The photo you see above is no marketing shot from Bethesda’s Fallout 3 PR team, it’s a mash-up of the real war in Iraq and the game’s fictitious post-apocalyptic America. To get away from the desert wastelands of Iraq, Army journalist and Reddit user “skatch” logs many hours wandering Fallout 3’s bombed-out Washington, D.C. Stricken by the game’s retro propaganda, he wrote developer Bethesda asking how to acquire the posters seen in the games (those that speak of a better life underground, in the vault). Those Fallout 3 posters aren’t for sale in real life, skatch was told, but a month later Bethesda hooked him up with what appears to be the Fallout 3 Collector’s Edition.
Inside the fully-customized Vault-Tec lunch box was a “making of” DVD and a Vault Boy figurine. What did “skatch” and a fellow army buddy do? A photo shoot, complete with military weapons and gear and washed out yellow tones that make Iraq’s desert seem as bleak as the Capital Wasteland. Or vice versa. More photos after the jump. [via Reddit]
