West Virginia Tourism Embraces “Fallout” Video Game

With the release of Bethesda Game Studios’ latest installment in its post-apocalyptic “Fallout” video game series coming up next November, West Virginia is embracing the game’s setting in the Mountain State.

The open world video game set in post-nuclear West Virginia will be online for the first time in the game series’ history.

The games all take place within a post-apocalyptic alternate timeline version of America, following years that people spent in fallout shelters after nuclear war took place in 2077.

The first games took place along the West Coast and Midwest. Fallout 3 took place in the general region of Washington, D.C. and Fallout 4 took place around Boston.

The newest game takes place 25 years after the nuclear strike, which means players will get to see a West Virginia just a couple decades after nuclear devastation, as opposed to a Las Vegas or Boston hundreds of years later, like the earlier games.

The state’s tourism office is creating advertising strategies along with Bethesda to both educate players about West Virginia’s unique landscape and culture and to offer them an open invitation to visit the state over the coming months.