Location from Fallout by Interplay / Bethesda
The scorched Nevada desert surrounding New Vegas, where three armies converge on Hoover Dam and every road leads to a war nobody can win — the last great prize of the old world is about to change hands.
Dry heat hits like opening an oven door — the air shimmers above the asphalt and the sand burns through boot soles. Cazadores buzz in the mountain passes while bighorners low from distant ranch ruins. The wind carries grit that scours exposed skin and the smell of sagebrush mixed with spent gunpowder from the latest skirmish. Radio New Vegas plays Dean Martin while NCR troopers march south and Legion scouts watch from the ridgelines. The silence between settlements is enormous, broken only by the creak of a spinning windmill or a distant deathclaw scream.
Endless stretches of sunblasted desert broken by rugged brown mountains and dried-out riverbeds. Joshua trees stand in skeletal silhouettes against burning orange sunsets. Pre-War highways cut straight lines through the sand, dotted with rusted billboards advertising casinos that still glow on the horizon. Mojave rock formations cast long shadows over patches of scrub brush and the occasional collapsed gas station. The distant neon haze of the Strip bleeds into the sky at night like a false sunrise.
Also known as: The Mojave, Mojave Desert, Nevada Wasteland