Fallout 3 is the latest game from Bethesda Game Studios behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The game takes place in Washington DC several years after a nuclear explosion.

Vault 101 is the place you were born. For 200 years, it has been home to Washington DCs surviving residents after the United States was laid in ruins in the global nuclear war in 2077. Vault 101s residents live sheltered from the dangers of the outside world, a world now known as Capital Wasteland. Still, one morning when you wake up, you discover that your father has defied the supervisor and left the vault safe for unknown reasons.

Barely 19 years old, you leave the vault to rise into the relentless wasteland sun and begin your search for your father and for the truth.