Title
Dreaming of Zion: The American West as Place or Process in Fallout: New Vegas’s Honest Hearts DLC
Document Type
Blog
Publication Date
6-3-2020
Publication Title
First Person Scholar
First page number:
1
Last page number:
4
Abstract
As a Western set in a post-apocalyptic Mohave, Fallout: New Vegas demonstrates that the big questions that drive Western history are durable and malleable enough to survive even the (fictional) nuclear demise of the United States itself. The fourth iteration of the Fallout franchise is set approximately 200 years after a civilization-ending nuclear war but is valuable for teachers of American history because several major themes of real-life Western historiography are embedded in it. In fact, as I will demonstrate in this essay, the game, and particularly the Honest Hearts DLC, can be used to not just demonstrate, but to allow students to feel why the questions that underlay the study of Western history have real resonance.
Keywords
Video game; Fallout New Vegas; DLC; Honest Hearts; American West; Western history; Zion National Park
Disciplines
Art and Design | Arts and Humanities | Game Design
Language
English
Repository Citation
Schwartz, D.
(2020).
Dreaming of Zion: The American West as Place or Process in Fallout: New Vegas’s Honest Hearts DLC.
First Person Scholar
1-4.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/evpp_fac_articles/15