Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage Review

Fallout is is easily one of the best games of 2008 and Bethesda Softworks has has released its first DLC for the game. Fallout 3 alone has 100's of things to do in its open world rpg and your probably gonna spend at least 20 hours on it at the least. So is the Operation Anchorage DLC worth the money? Hell ya.

When you first load up your saved game, it'll take a couple minutes before the quest appears. Once you get to the location you'll end up in the middle of a battle between the Outcasts of the Brotherhood of Steel and Super Mutants. Once the battle is finished, you will go to the Outcast's outpost underground. When you finish talking to the Outcast Scribe,(I don't want to spoil to much) you will end up in Alaska in the year 2066. Your in the middle of the battle against Communist Chinese soldiers which are occupying Anchorage, Alaska. With your friend, Sergeant Benjamin Montgomery, and other American soldiers, you go and defeat the Chinese and take back Anchorage(easier said than done). When you go back to the Outcast's outpost, they will tell you to open the locked room with all the technology that was the whole reason for sending you to Alaska. They also tell you to take anything you want, and let me tell you, there's a lot of stuff. In the room there is new armor, weapons new and old, and a lot of ammo and aid. While you are taking, some Outcast are arguing in the background. After they're done arguing, they will start fighting, and they'll fight you too. You'll probably end up killing everyone and the others will die in battle, but its cool because you got so much stuff that its worth it.


Some of the new things that are in Alaska are things like health dispenser, which raises your health to full, and ammo dispenser, which increases all of your ammo to the highest it can go. Some things you can't do are things like searching bodies because they disappear, but you'll get all the things that were in Alaska later. There are also 4 new achievements:

Operation: Anchorage: 40 points
Completed "Operation: Anchorage"

Paving the Way: 20 points
Completed "Paving the Way"

The Guns of Anchorage: 20 points
Completed "The Guns of Anchorage"

Aiding the Outcasts: 20 points
Completed "Aiding the Outcasts"

This DLC is only 800 microsoft points($10). Its really worth the money, especially for the hardcore Fallout fans who have been urging for a new quest. I didn't face too many bugs and everything felt really good. I would highly recommend this to any and everyone who likes Fallout 3.
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