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And of course, completing this will give you a new Achievement and increase your Gamerscore on XBOX Live. The setting and mission are nicely integrated, and since it is before the total nuclear war you aren't constantly distracted by things like car batteries running unattended streetlights for hundreds of years.Īt the conclusion of the VR simulation, you get rewarded with a Gauss Rifle, special Powered Armor, as well as some miscellaneous items, and also the ability to unlock a perk for gathering a list of intelligence items. This time it is the stark arctic tundra of Alaska, with each area you explore looking nicely done and very distinct. That said, the game itself once again does a wonderful job of showing off beautiful wasteland vistas. All of these happen in Anchorage, Alaska, where the Chinese have occupied the region and you need to disable their defenses so the Americans can come in and destroy the base.Īs I said, the fundamental technology is the same as Fallout 3, so oddities in the graphics and especially the characters and animations persist. After completing the primary mission, more missions come to you to resolve. The VR simulator, of course, is a combat-focused environment that is a recreation of a war scenario from the big war that ended up with the world becoming the wasteland you now roam. If you do so, you will get a share of the contents.
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To unlock it, you need to complete a VR simulator. Once the battle concludes, you work your way through talking to a number of Brotherhood Outcasts before finally reaching the senior officer who tells you that there is a massive enemy armory they need to access that can tip the balance of conflict. So I stayed out of the battle - after all, I had hit the maximum level (20) many hours before so there was no XP motivation to insert myself. As I discovered early in the main game, it is very easy to try to get involved and have a stray bullet hit someone in the Brotherhood of Steel and end up with a load of enemies. This leads you to track the signal across the wasteland using your map, and eventually emerge from the Metro in the midst of a battle between Brotherhood Outcasts and Super Mutants. Operation: Anchorage starts off with a radio signal picked up on your Pip-Boy. you are already fighting an uphill battle. In these lean economic times everything is about presenting a compelling value proposition, and when you are a small add-on to a potentially 60+ hour game. Instead I will quickly dissect the add-on looking for a single thing: value. Since Operation Anchorage is a plug-in mission for Fallout 3 and doesn't fundamentally change anything about the original, there is no need to examine all of the technical details again. With all of that in mind, let's take a quick look at the recently released Operation Anchorage DLC for Fallout 3. While the DLC for Oblivion and many other games has greatly improved (though in many other cases it has not), the fundamental question of the 'value proposition' dogs every DLC release - and with good reason. It seemed that Bethesda and Microsoft teamed up and said 'let's test this system by holding out including something trivial from the game, then offering it for a small sum and see how many suckers.
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That is because what it offers - Colorforms for your horse for $2 in real money - felt like a rather blatant money grab. Those two words are enough to get even the most staunch supporters of 'DLC' (downloadable content) riled up.