10 Times Video Games Got Science WRONG
8. Wooden Buildings Standing 200 Years After A Nuclear Apocalypse - Fallout 3
Fallout 3 takes place approximately 200 years after The Great War, a nuclear apocalypse which turned the globe into a heavily irradiated hellscape.
And as neat a setting as the world of Fallout is, that epic time jump does raise a few baffling scientific questions throughout the third game. Primarily, how the hell are any wooden buildings left standing two centuries after withstanding a nuclear blast?
Even the structures which survived the initial blasts would 100% rot away from contamination in 200 years, yet in Fallout 3, many wood-framed buildings look in remarkable shape - relatively speaking, of course.
It's been widely speculated by fans that Fallout 3 was originally supposed to be a prequel set 20 years after The Great War, which would certainly go a way to explain the glaring inaccuracy - to say nothing of all that food which somehow went unspoiled for 200 years.