I’d have enjoyed Fallout 3 a whole lot more if it had more than three colours in it. Fortunately, an enterprising modder felt the same way, and has taken it upon himself to restore the chlorophyll to the wasteland’s washed-out world. On paper, making the trees and grass clinging to life in a post-nuclear landscape a healthy shade of green sounds absolutely ridiculous, but in practice it makes an incredible amount of difference to a game that often coasts on limited artistic imagination. It doesn’t end up looking like Oblivion 1.5 – rather, it still looks very much like the devastated wasteland it’s supposed to. It’s just that, now, plantlife’s doing okay for itself even if humankind isn’t. And it makes me want to explore so much more.
Grab this green and pleasant mod-ette from here.
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I have to say I like it, people hold these games up to crazy standards when the only standard you should be worried about is “Is this game fun” to me it is. Sneaking around a super market shooting raiders in between isles, running into crazy robot brain machnies in the middle of the waste land and cracking their brain case, finding a city that is run by kids that got to old and had to move out :P Thats all very interesting and fun to me. Realistic or not, WELL writtten or not I don’t really care. I don’t have enough free time to care.
Y’know, I don’t like Fallout 1 much, and I can’t get past the boredom in Planescape to even leave the city? (I have low planes lore), and I have tried a half-dozen times.
Anyways, since I enjoy trees, grass and the general color green I would install this. But I uninstalled Fallout 3 while upgrading to Vista Ultimate. (bleh)
I enjoy analysis’s of fiction… because it’s funny.
The real issue with trees in fallout 3 is the lack of useful water. Most of the water available is highly radiated. Rain water would be highly irradiated as well. The rain cycle would serve to keep the radiation around enough for plants not to be able to thrive. Chernobyl has had a major foliage revival, true, but that area gets rain from other areas around it, which aren’t radioactive. Fallout 3 is a much bigger ground zero than Chernobyl, it is assumed that most of the surrounding area has suffered the same fate. I think the lack of plant life in FT3 was adequate.