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What do you think of the Fallout 3 Operation Anchorage DLC?

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mitchells | 3 years, 4 months ago
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To be honest, I was pretty underwhelmed with it.

When you take away the setting, the looting, the inventory management, and the non-linearity of Fallout 3, all you're really left with is a standard First Person Shooter with the addition of V.A.T.S. That's basically what Operation Anchorage is.

By putting you into a simulation, you're stripped of all of the items and weapons you've found in the real world, your health and ammo are restored in full by common ammo and health dispensers, and you can only pick up weapons and items that the game wants you to pick up. This takes away the biggest aspect of what made Fallout 3 so great: Freedom.

To add on top of that, the DLC is buggy (I had my allies turn on me twice randomly, enemies that wouldn't die, and allies who wouldn't stop shooting at a dead enemy who wouldn't disappear) and the new weapons and armor are pretty weak (I hate the Gauss Rifle).

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pvera | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

I just finished it. It was fun until I realized that it was over. That said, it was plenty of fun for what it cost me, unlike the Fable 2 DLC (grrrrr).

Bugs: a friend of mine got at least two console freezes, and I found lots of clipping errors. After facing the general at the very end I got stuck behind some kind of metal structure and I almost couldn't get out of it so I could talk to the American general.

AI: Dumb as ever. I couldn't bother aiming because that was all the hint that my sergeant needed to stand in the middle and take my kill. Did it many times.

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phil h | 3 years, 4 months ago
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I have to agree with the other answers. Operation Anchorage is fun, but only inasmuch as it's standard FPS fare. Join or lead a military operation, shoot guys, repeat. The soldiers were dumb and not really all that difficult. I was hoping for multiple paths through the cliffs and so on so as to utilize sneaking or my character's strengths, but there weren't many opportunities. Before long I stopped crouching altogther -- you're hard to kill as it is, your ally destroys anything that even looks at you wrong, and the soldiers tend to go down easy. Plus health is so convenient that there's rarely a time when you're worried about your life. Once I had an assault rifle, I just used it to plug anything that moved. Done and done.

That said, it's still Fallout content. The portions more directly concerning the Outcasts are enjoyable and since I'm playing it on a new, weak character, it was fun and the stuff I got for it was useful. You still get to choose how you run through the battle and the overall story is interesting.

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pvera | 3 years, 4 months ago
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Hell of a lot more fun so far than the Fable 2 DLC. I have put about 3 hours on it today and I am really enjoying it.

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