A screenshot from the new game Fallout 76 appears to show a ruined New River Gorge in the background.
A screenshot from the new game Fallout 76 appears to show a ruined New River Gorge in the background.

Fallout 76: Which West Virginia landmarks can you find?

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A Fallout 76 character wanders a desolate West Virginia street. Which famous state landmarks do you recognize?

In time for Christmas 2018, Bethesda it will unleash “Fallout 76,” a video game of enormous proportions that appears to be entirely centered in a post-apocalyptic West Virginia set in the 2076.

The trailer for the video begins to pay homage to the Mountain State from the state, invoking the state song “Country Roads, Take Me Home.” Scene after scene catalogs a series of locations and landmarks both eerily and evocatively similar to present-day counterparts.

Gamers in West Virginia have since been picking Youtube.com videos of the game apart, looking for clues as to how the game will play out and what it means to their state.

Our development team found the following images captured from the launch video. Do you agree with their findings? Do you see more than we see? Add your commentary below.

No. 1: New River Gorge Bridge

A screenshot from the new game Fallout 76 appears to show a ruined New River Gorge in the background.
A screenshot from the new game Fallout 76 appears to show a ruined New River Gorge in the background.

Unmistakable in the distance, a ruined A dilapidated version of The Greenbrier appears in the new Fallout 76 game. A dilapidated version of The Greenbrier in southern West Virginia appears in the new Fallout 76 game.[/caption]

A diminutive version of The Greenbrier appears in this screenshot. The world-famous resort, at White Sulphur Springs, is in actuality much larger. Thankfully its flower gardens survived the nuclear catastrophe, or perhaps the robot at left is a gardener.

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David Sibray

David Sibray is a West Virginia journalist, publisher, and historian who has spent more than four decades promoting the culture, communities and natural landscapes of Appalachia. He is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of West Virginia Explorer, a news and travel magazine devoted to the state’s history, tourism, outdoor recreation and economic development. Born in Wheeling and raised in Beckley, he attended West Virginia University and Wheeling Jesuit University. Since beginning his journalism career in the late 1980s, he has worked in publishing, public relations and destination marketing, including leadership roles with Theatre West Virginia and the Southern West Virginia Convention & Visitors Bureau. For more information, he may be reached at 304-575-7390.

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