The Top 50 Things You Never Knew About Fallout, Pt. 1

12. Ever go through the Five Axles Truck Stop in Fallout 3 and come across the lone C.B. radio holodisk recording and wonder if there was more to that story? There was. While the sole remaining disk consists only of a man asking, “Any truckers on this wave?”, the follow-up disks, which were cut from the game, reveal that another trucker responded, made note of the nuclear clouds on the horizon, then suggested they “circle the wagons” and meet nearby on Route Seven. This would explain both the name of the location and the configuration of trucks there.



Another location in Fallout 3 that gave insight into the events immediately surrounding the bombs was also altered to be less revealing: Hamilton’s Hideaway. Cut terminal entries from the scene tell the brief story of a family surviving in a homemade shelter after the bombs fell. It would seem that at some point in development, anything related to descriptions of the direct aftermath of the bombs was cut. I have some theories about why they might have done this; I suspect Fallout 3 was originally meant as a prequel taking place right after the bombs were dropped, which would explain many mysteries of the Wastes (Brailee Ewer’s delusion that she is still in Pre-War America, for instance, would make a lot more sense). But that is an article for another time.