"War, war never changes..." This is how one of the best-known sagas of video games begins: Fallout. The premise of these games is to put yourself in the shoes of a survivor of a nuclear holocaust thanks to some underground shelters, and where sooner or later we will have to leave our comfort to face what is out there.

Although the first two installments keep a place in the collective memory of players for their innovative mechanics, their harrowing atmosphere and the possibility of allying with factions with their respective pros and cons, Fallout 3 was the first to show extensive mapping and in three dimensions, full of places to explore and details to discover. That is the incentive that has led me to capture some of the areas that make up the mapping, such as: a playground for children, a car factory, an abandoned subway station network, etc.

I'm amazed at the level of detail it exhibits for the time (the game was published in 2008), trying to show almost at all times the deterioration caused by nuclear war and its subsequent transformation, the loneliness that is felt when traveling through Washington DC, the northeast of Virginia and part of Maryland on foot and without the possibility of doing it by car or motorcycle, at the expense of meeting a gang of savages who have decided to put an end to your life. Of course, you can also run into the last sensible bastion of humanity, or a renegade settlement that wants to establish its own order.

It is a joy to visit abandoned places and see how chaos spreads around you, dirty streets, vehicles left in the middle of the road, broken glass and buildings with graffiti on the wall, not to mention the most picturesque characters.

Without a doubt, Fallout 3 has made me want to put on my boots, prepare my survival kit and go outside in search of emblematic places to capture them in all their decadence.