
In response to the Power of the Atom quest, GamesRadar+ called it "game-defining", as well as "game-redefining if you live in Japan." Citing the fact that the Japanese ratings board modified the quest so the bomb was permanently defused, the publication called the censorship evidence of the country's "gaping cultural wounds", despite the game having been "voted one of the top ten RPGs ever by readers of Famitsu". However, they criticized its complicated design, stating that "one notable frustration of Megaton is that you can just about see all of the place at once yet never quite get the measure of it." Nevertheless, they also stated that "Megaton epitomises Fallout 3’s grand adventure in the building of open-world forts". GamesRadar+ called Megaton Fallout 3's scrappiest location but also its most beautiful, saying that "in terms of iconic locations in the series nothing quite compares to Megaton". Saying that "the citizens of Megaton have learned to depend on the person next to them to get along", he called Megaton "in many ways the ideal post-apocalyptic neighborhood." Citing the town's inhabitants, including its sheriff Lucas Simms, he says that Megaton "has all the charm of Mayberry, without white picket fences, Little League fields, or trappings of civil society," calling it "downright quaint when considered alongside other end-times groups". Club called Megaton "one of the better crappy post-apocalypse communities", citing it as an alternative to the Vaults, hermetically sealed bunkers with a "mildly fascistic and sterile existence". This moral choice, which can result in Megaton's permanent annihilation and the deaths of most of its residents, proved controversial and led to the game being censored for Japanese audiences.ĭrew Toal of The A.V. The player may choose to disarm the bomb permanently, or detonate it from the nearby Tenpenny Tower to appease Allistair Tenpenny, an eccentric entrepreneur who wants Megaton destroyed. While the townspeople believe the bomb to be inert, it is revealed that the warhead is still primed. Megaton has gained recognition from critics for its visual design, its inhabitants, as well as a quest, The Power of the Atom, involving a dud "C-23 Megaton" nuclear bomb located in the center of town. It is roughly situated in McLean, Virginia. Located in the Capital Wasteland, the former Washington metropolitan area, Megaton is a fortified settlement housing dozens of survivors from a devastating nuclear war, constructed out of scrap metal and other scavenged materials. Megaton is a fictional town in the video game Fallout 3, part of the post-apocalyptic Fallout franchise. Lucas Simms, Moira Brown, Billy Creel, Confessor Cromwell

Megaton, as seen facing towards the town's center from above
