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Fallout 3: Point Lookout
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Genre(s): Role-Playing Game
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Summary
(Downloadable Content) Buy a ticket and hop onboard the Duchess Gambit, as Tobar the Ferryman takes you to the strange seaside town of Point Lookout. What secrets does the dilapidated boardwalk hold? Who lives in the sprawling mansion? Why is the Punga Fruit so important? And what horrors lie in the depths of the murky swamp? Point Lookout is the most open-ended DLC yet, and allows you to explore an entirely new and expansive gameplay area any way you’d like. A completely new questline allows you uncover the town’s hidden secrets, and wield powerful new weapons like the Double-Barrel Shotgun against the swamp’s dangerous, and deformed, denizens. So venture to Point Lookout, if you dare. Just pray it’s not a one-way trip. [Bethesda Softworks]
What The Critics Said
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GameDaily
This jaunt away from the Capitol Wasteland is a welcome addition to the three adventure add-ons that build on Fallout 3's awesome adventure.
Read Full Review >Game Over Online
The bottom line here is that Point Lookout is probably the best model for Fallout 3 DLC yet.
Read Full Review >PC Format
Fallout 3's downloadable content just keeps getting better. At this rate, Mothership Zeta-Jones will melt our eyes. [Sept 2009, p.96]
Cheat Code Central
Non-linear exploration returns! Clever twists and a great new setting usher in some welcome entertainment.
Read Full Review >AtomicGamer
What you will get is a solid story that delivers several hours of interesting dialogue and familiar FO3 action - but make sure to explore a little to dig up the rest of what this add-on has to offer.
Read Full Review >Gamervision
While the “Broken Steel” expansion may have reopened the game world, and had its fair share of huge action set pieces, “Point Lookout” really stands out as the best in the series so far.
Read Full Review >GamingXP
On the whole Point Lookout is a very nice addition to the main game. Sadly you’ll also need Broken Steel, if you want your char to reach level 30.
Read Full Review >IGN
Point Lookout is one of the better Fallout 3 expansions and feels well worth the $10 price tag. There's a brand new area with over a half dozen trippy and exciting missions to find and work through. Plus, there are inbred hillbillies. If you're still looking for more Fallout 3, definitely give Point Lookout a try.
Read Full Review >3DJuegos
Point Lookout is the best Fallout 3 add-on this far, and this is probably the only one actually essential in the gameplay side. A brilliant story and a big and vigorous new map are among its main virtues.
Read Full Review >Gamers.at
Although the main quest is a little short and the rewards leave much to be desired one of the better Fallout 3-add-ons.
Read Full Review >Telegraph
Essentially, Point Lookout feels more like an organic extension of Fallout 3 rather than a collection of missions bolted onto a new environment. A couple of technical glitches aside, this DLC is sure delight players who want to test their mettle in a great new locale.
Read Full Review >VideoGamer
The new game world looks great, and the omnipresent vegetation is a real change from the barren rock and destroyed highways that we’re used to. At times the frame rate seemed to take a bit of a hit, but this issue never became serious enough to affect gameplay - the action was just a bit less smooth than usual.
Read Full Review >Gameplayer Sweden
This times Bethesda serves us a more free gaming experience compared to the earlier downloadable material. The main questline is quite linear, but the area offers a lot to explore and enough hidden sidequests to please most of us. It’s a very different environment compared to earlier addons, and it features some of the more surreal and odd events and characters yet in the game. It’s not as deep in gameplay as The Pitt was, but instead it offers more diversity. Without question a big thumbs up.
Read Full Review >PC PowerPlay
"Deliverance" with a laser rifle - more fun than it sounds! [Sept 2009, p.67]
PC Zone UK
An incongruous addition to Fallout 3 that has little or no bearing on the wider world itself. [Nov 2009, p.73]
Game Revolution
It provides an interesting locale, great story, and some fun new perks and equipment. It's also a bit lengthier than the first few DLCs, with a fairly larger map to explore, rewarding you each time you replay, checking every nook and cranny.
Read Full Review >GameStar
It's the fourth mini add-on to Fallout 3 and if you concentrate on playing the story, Point Lookout only offers two hours of gameplay with no dramatic ending and no real reward. Disappointing.
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
If you can't get enough of Fallout 3 and want to take a vacation away from the bleak, crumbling spires of the DC wasteland and experience what the past two centuries have done to a quiet spot on the East Coast, Point Lookout does a fairly decent job with its change of scenery.
Read Full Review >PC Gamer
Only the Microwave Emitter energy weapon is likely to stay in my inventory. [Sept 2009, p.81]
SpazioGames
An intriguing plot, fascinating characters and even a psychedelic trip within your own mind, characterize an expansion perhaps weak in terms of content, such as weapons and armor, but very enjoyable.
Read Full Review >Absolute Games
Point Lookout is a miniature copy of Fallout 3. Alas, just like the original game, the wrapping is much better than the contents, but even this result is a great achievement for Bethesda Softworks. Not only they managed to produce a decent expansion, but finally added their own ideas to the legendary post-apocalyptic universe instead of ripping off stories about supermutants and The Brotherhood of Steel.
Read Full Review >Edge Magazine
So, then: the best expansion so far and the game at its worst. Such a contradiction could only be made by Bethesda.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dree gave it a7:
While I enjoyed this DLC the most, I have slight disappointment about this particular DLC. Anyone who enjoyed Shivering Isle, will feel that this DLC is almost copy-and-paste version of Shivering Isle. The themes.. swampy green enviroment (rather than Wasteland feeling, this is Dementia.) Classic go-and-fetch quests, the tribal worshipping high-tech-comp. (this is where insane dremora god being worshipped by lot of insane folks.). There is no other energy weapons/power armor other than the microwave emitter. (which by the way is nothing but a copy of mesometron with different stats.) This is a good example of how a dev can recycle their previous content and sell it to the fan base. however, the main story was sorta fun. (but too short.) Explorable dungeons were above average. and thankfully the monsters/enemies were tough and added more challenge, which is why I give 7/10 instead of 5/10.
