Fallout 3: Broken Steel

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  • Summary: (Downloadable Content) Continue your existing Fallout 3 game and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime. Broken Steel moves the level cap for your character from 20 to 30, allowing you to experience even more of the game, including new perks and achievements.(Downloadable Content) Continue your existing Fallout 3 game and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime. Broken Steel moves the level cap for your character from 20 to 30, allowing you to experience even more of the game, including new perks and achievements. Story: You may have dealt the Enclave a serious blow at Project Purity, but their forces are still out there, and still pose a grave threat to the people and security of the Capital Wasteland. In Broken Steel, you'll continue your current Fallout 3 character past the events of Project Purity, and work with the Brotherhood of Steel to eradicate the Enclave threat once and for all. Travel to new locations like the Olney Powerworks, wield destructive new weapons like the Tesla Cannon, and fight powerful new creatures like the Super Mutant Overlord. [Bethesda Softworks]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. GameFocus
    95
    Broken Steel certainly changes the game for the better and is a must buy for all Fallout 3 owners. Even the subtle changes to normal characters in the Wasteland are noticeable such as those slackers in Megaton who complain about the water. Bottom Line is that there is much to explore, must to experience and much to disintegrate in the game and this is why the final score is so high for the expansion.
  2. VideoGamer
    90
    Put simply, if you love Fallout 3, Broken Steel is an essential purchase.
  3. Gamer 2.0
    88
    With a solid new campaign, an improved level cap, dozens of new perks and tons of powerful weapons at your disposal, Broken Steel is hands down some of the best content Fallout 3 has to offer.
  4. Game Revolution
    83
    One of the finest examples of downloadable content that other developers should emulate.
  5. Worth Playing
    80
    With solid quests adding flavor to the endgame and with new ways in which to scratch your itchy trigger finger while Perking out your Monty Haul avatar, fans who haven't gotten their fill of Rad Away, Nuka-Cola, and Fancy Lads Snack Cakes may find that this add-on might be as good a reason as any to head back into the wastes.
  6. PC Zone UK
    80
    Satisfying. [Nov 2009, p.73]
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  7. Absolute Games
    60
    I don’t recommend buying Broken Steel, because it’s a matter of principle – let's not encourage trade in endings. You won’t miss anything important anyway – this DLC is only slightly better than its mediocre predecessors.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 5 out of 16
  1. [Anonymous]
    May 9, 2009
    10
    This DLC creates a whole new opening to fallout's ending. Which people wants to find out more about the capital wasteland and explore This DLC creates a whole new opening to fallout's ending. Which people wants to find out more about the capital wasteland and explore more. People who wants to find out items and do exciting side quests with a whole new variety of weapons and armors. Fallout is an RPG game. So let it be a RPG game.… Expand
  2. zdogjr
    Jun 5, 2009
    9
    this has to be my favorite dlc for the game yet. i love the new weapon and perks you get, and the contiuation of the story. my only realthis has to be my favorite dlc for the game yet. i love the new weapon and perks you get, and the contiuation of the story. my only real complaint is that its a bit short even with the side quests and the reason why you survived the radiation from project purity is just plain stupid… Expand
  4. Alexander_1996
    Oct 3, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First of all, why should it be a DLC? It doesn't provide any new setting and doesn't create any new problem you are suppose to eliminate - you literally continue your main story. Even more, you are ALLOWED to continue your game ONLY if you have this add-on. What? Seriously? I can't come up with any reasonable reason why this happened besides because Bethesda decided to make more money by selling basically the last sequence of the main story for additional money. I would understand if the main story was already long as hell but no, it is pretty short for such big open world.

    Okay, now about the add-on itself. It is awesome. It completes neatly your confrontation with Enclave and is full of many exciting fights especially the last one where you are one (or with your faithful companion Super Mutant Fawkes) against the last Enclave remnants in the heart of their main military base which you had to find by lurking in God forgotten metro tunnels full of feral ghouls and sentry boats after fighting with Liberty Prime side by side. By the end of the DLC it started to remind me Operation Anchorage add-on but this time in real world (maybe in 2477 someone will have to complete Operation Adams Air Base in order to get access to an armory or something).

    Broken Steel is the right ending to the Fallout 3 main story and it is a shame it wasn't build into the main game from the very beginning.    … Expand
  5. JaydenPickens
    Feb 20, 2019
    7
    Broken Steel continues the main story from the game. it's interesting and I've enjoyed it. You can finish the dlc in under 3 hours. Some sideBroken Steel continues the main story from the game. it's interesting and I've enjoyed it. You can finish the dlc in under 3 hours. Some side missions are cool, others not so much. Pickens approves!… Expand
  6. AnonymousMC
    Jul 31, 2009
    5
    1) What is this Broken Steel DLC about?
    -> It is about the level cap and freeroam-after-ending.
    -> I had a strong feeling that the last    1) What is this Broken Steel DLC about?
    -> It is about the level cap and freeroam-after-ending.
    -> I had a strong feeling that the last portion of original game (such as ending, level cap) were removed so it can be repackaged into purchasable DLC pack. It's a very cheap marketing tactics I really have seeing dev practicing such things to the loyal fans.
    2) Does this DLC pack involve choice/decision making and its consequence,aka roleplaying?
    ->Barely, most of the content is focused on combating enclave remnant force. Only choice that you are making is either leave Citadel to be burned or not...which I dont think it qualifies to be an RPG thing.

    3) The Level-up perks for lvl 22-30, are they good?
    -> No, not at all.
    -> most of the perks they added should be for level 4-12.
    -> there is nothing special or unique in terms of high level actions or roleplaying.
    -> lvl 30 perk, Nuclear anomaly is suppposed to be the strongest perk in the entire game..but it is bugged and kills player at frequent occasion.

    4) Then, what is so good about this DLC?
    -> again, Level-caps and Freeroam after Ending were taken as hostage by the dev. Any player who enjoyed should buy it.    … Expand
  7. nastyjes
    Mar 19, 2023
    2
    Side quests are not bad. New perks are boring. New mobs are unbalanced and absorb damage like sponges. The main quest is terrible.
  8. anonymous
    Dec 6, 2009
    0
    Just to be clear for anyone who hasn't realized it yet: Bethesda purposely shortened the main quest and gimped the ending of Fallout 3 Just to be clear for anyone who hasn't realized it yet: Bethesda purposely shortened the main quest and gimped the ending of Fallout 3 in order to sell it to you at a latter date. It approaches a mild form of extortion, and judging by the success of this and other comparable DLC, it's a sure thing that a growing number of incomplete games like this will be sold and resold to you again and again in the foreseeable future. As customers we should not accept this.… Expand

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