I agree, I definitely think that it would be akin to Fallout, or The Book of Eli.

i think that there would be no survivors the radiation would rape everything. and perhaps mutate or create new plant life. but overall wipe out fucking everything and everyone

Well now, the Fallout franchise takes place hundreds of years after the bombs dropping. For starters, there wouldn't be harmful levels of radiation still lingering in the environment. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were habitable only a decade or so after being nuked. I hate post-apocalyptic fiction for always depicting the world as a fucking desert.

It was more in tuned to what might be with the nod to the return of tribalism. And by that, I don't necessarily mean the "tribals" from Point Lookout and Fallout 2. Bands of 200 or so people forming their own mini governments. What's left of the actual governments wouldn't have disappeared, but they sure wouldn't have the capability to maintain most of their former territory.

>>10
I see your point, the Chernobyl incident didn't leave that part of Russia as a desert. In fact there is still a lot of forest around there. It's still somewhat irradiated, and many of the animals have suffered genetic mutation, but no monsters or desert.

I think The Road, by Cormac McCarthy sums up pretty much what the end of the world would be like. It ain't fun. Cannibals, starvation, cold, and filth. With a nuclear holocaust, you get all that, plus radiation.

Eh, Fallout was very optimistic about nuclear war.
We don't have capacity for making vaults with long-lasting nuclear power or infinite water supply. And I doubt there would be electricity after war in other scenarios.

>>8
I think aspects of both fallout and the Book of Eli will be right on the mark.
Sure, we won't have any of that classic 50's sort of environment with a retrofuturistic twist, but I think the economy will boil down to a bartering system (like in the shop where Eli trades some KFC napkins and some other stuff for bis battery getting recharged).

I think people will lose control of themselves, in a criminal sense, and it'll be more of a dog-eat-dog world, where the biggest dude with the best weapon will basically have control.

But that's just me...

>>18
That was the first Cormac McCarthy Novel I read

>I think the Fallout franchise pretty much nailed it
Wrong. Electronics would all be fried due to EMP.

.....maybe its just me but considering the fact that the fiction behind fallout predicted a global nuclear war nearly 200 years before it happened it isn't impossible to think that most developed countries started implementing emp shielding on everyday electronics so as to preserve their way of life as much as possible

>>48
You realize that the nukes have to detonate about 8000-10000 meters over the ground for it to have an EMP effect, right?

If you are lobbing hundreds of nukes, why not a few high altitude detonations for EMP effect? With today's high tech society, it would be a terrible oversight to not take advantage of.

Living in New Zealand finally pays off. Shame about that whole nuclear winter business though. There is a fatal flaw with the fallout franchise. Radiation tends not to mutate it just kills.

>>120
Radiation mutates. Cancer is mutated cell growth. You die, not from the radiation, but rather the adverse effects of the mutation.

Background radiation is part of what causers minor mutations in animals, spurring evolution.

>>120
Read a book called "On the Beach"