Washington's Role in Fallout 3 -- Radioactive on The Washington Post is a Q&A with Bethesda Softworks' Todd Howard about Fallout 3, focusing on the RPG sequel's setting of a post-apocalyptic Washington DC: "I think there's this interesting idea with a post-apocalyptic world: Who's in control? What's the government like? And so, just the immediate visual of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and things like that, they tell a story immediately. The imagery is really evocative, these American icons, these big, epic structures kind of destroyed. It has the feeling of, what would you do? How did it get that way and what would you do in that world?"