Fallout 3: District of Columbia doubles the size of DC's ...

What’s Happening

Real talk: Fallout 3’s at its best during your first trip into the war-torn ruins of downtown DC.

Rather than an open and desolate expanse, you’re navigating tight underground passageways by Pip-Boy light, occasionally emerging into the daylight to fight through patches of ruined city often littered with battered landmarks. Bethesda had initially envisioned this urban jungle to be even more of an expansive labyrinth, and a group of modders have now had a crack at resurrecting the cut areas to create their Home News Fallout 3 Fallout 3: District of Columbia doubles the size of DC’s ruins by resurrecting a bunch of cut areas Get ready to get took an L in a labyrinthian maze of ghoul-infested metro tunnels and devastated streets Image credit: Bethesda News by Mark Warren Senior Staff Writer Jan. (yes, really)

7, 2026 Follow Fallout 3 Fallout 3 ‘s at its best during your first trip into the war-torn ruins of downtown DC.

The Details

The creation of the group - who go Anniversary Project team - dropped over the festive period. It’s called ‘Fallout 3 Anniversary - District of Columbia’ and principally adds back in 13 areas Bethesda elected to pull the plug on when they ditched an initial plan for Fallout 3’s DC area to be made up of 26 neighbourhoods - as outlined in this lengthy video on the game’s cut content which the modders have handily linked.

“While little remains of the actual exterior areas of these missing worldspaces, there is just enough cut content and information left over in the final game to piece together what was cut, where they were, and, in some cases, what dungeons they might have originally had within them,” the modders wrote, also noting that some bits of these cut areas were repurposed locations in the wasteland outside of downtown DC itself.

Why This Matters

The gaming community has been watching developments like this closely.

Gaming fans have strong opinions about moves like this, and for good reason.

The Bottom Line

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