Fallout 3 - Operation: Anchorage

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  • Summary: [Xbox Live Downloadable Content] Enter the simulation pod and embark on one of the greatest military campaigns of the Fallout universe – the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders. Experience harrowing winter combat using Fallout 3’s patented V.A.T.S. targeting[Xbox Live Downloadable Content] Enter the simulation pod and embark on one of the greatest military campaigns of the Fallout universe – the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders. Experience harrowing winter combat using Fallout 3’s patented V.A.T.S. targeting system, and employ powerful new equipment like the Gauss Rifle, Chinese Stealth Armor, Winterized T-51b Power Armor, and more. Enlist today, soldier! [Microsoft]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 29
  3. Negative: 1 out of 29
  1. Worth Playing
    90
    The way the missions unfold within the VR exercise really gives you a sense that you're playing a game that isn't Fallout, yet it's using the exact same engine.
  2. GameFocus
    85
    The best Role Playing Game this year gets its first dose of downloadable content to extend the game to the radioactive stratosphere. If you own Fallout 3 this is a must buy.
  3. Extreme Gamer
    80
    Depending on how much you like Fallout 3, I think you should look into Operation Anchorage. For me it was worth the 800MS Points.
  4. Games Master UK
    71
    Swaps out top questing for dumb blasting. [Apr 2009, p.61]
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  5. Meristation
    65
    Operation Anchorage is the virtual representation of one of the most important conflicts in the history of Fallout, the battle between China and USA for Alaska. But where Fallout 3 is an experience of free wandering in a fascinating scenario, this expansion is a surprisingly linear and limited experience that misses many of the finest points of the original game.
  6. AceGamez
    60
    A solid quest add-on, but little more.
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  7. Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
    40
    Swag aside, there's nothing in this reductionist hotchpotch for fans of what Fallout 3 does so well. [Apr 2009, p.103]
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  1. Positive: 10 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 27
  3. Negative: 2 out of 27
  1. nurfedx
    Nov 19, 2021
    10
    One of the best games to the series and an All-time Classic. Also, the last Decent Fallout Game!
  2. MichaelS.
    Feb 12, 2009
    9
    Foolish people, don't let the die hards ruin this game for you...it's a great game. People who say it's not fallout simply are Foolish people, don't let the die hards ruin this game for you...it's a great game. People who say it's not fallout simply are the same people who hate the new color scheme for Diablo3...whiners who can't ever be happy. Fallout 3 and it's new content are great additions...and you will enjoy the game. It's not cannon but that doesn't really matter. It's a fallout setting you control the fun.… Expand
  4. BlackAcidDragon
    Oct 8, 2010
    8
    i liked this. i liked the video game within a video gameesque theme going on here. enjoyed playing through it. i liked the goodies you goti liked this. i liked the video game within a video gameesque theme going on here. enjoyed playing through it. i liked the goodies you got after finishing it. plus the photo being taken of a few soldiers which was then made into a landmark in the fallout 3 world.… Expand
  5. vind4loob
    Mar 16, 2009
    7
    It was a small-medium sized DLC and was dissapointingly only 2-3 hours long, the need to loot was constantly there and being unable to use It was a small-medium sized DLC and was dissapointingly only 2-3 hours long, the need to loot was constantly there and being unable to use your own armour wasnt the best of feelings, however it was surprisingly fun fighting a war and choosing your own squad was great. it missed sum of the charm of fallou but for a fiver i definatley recommend picking this up.… Expand
  6. OnAnarchy
    Mar 20, 2012
    6
    I love Fallout 3, it's easily one of my favourite games of all time. Operation: Anchorage was decent for me; it kept me interested longI love Fallout 3, it's easily one of my favourite games of all time. Operation: Anchorage was decent for me; it kept me interested long enough for better DLC to come out, and it provided some interesting back story. The items included were a good addition. But overall it was just a bit clumsy. It didn't really feel like Fallout as presented in the core game. Still, being a fallout fanatic, I played this to it's extreme and if you are like me you will enjoy it, if only the one time.… Expand
  7. JG
    Feb 8, 2009
    6
    Even as I love Fallout 3, the Operation Anchorage wasn't for me. The feeling of "Okay, it's a sim," was constantly there. Mostly I Even as I love Fallout 3, the Operation Anchorage wasn't for me. The feeling of "Okay, it's a sim," was constantly there. Mostly I just wanted to get it over fast, so that I could get that stuff in the armory. And when I finally got there and took the stuff, I ended up putting it straight to my safe at my suite. Thanks for nothing! (Expect the white t51b power armor.) At the bright side, I gained some levels while there, and the end was really fun at some parts.… Expand
  8. SHODAN
    Jan 28, 2009
    0
    If it wasn't painfully obvious before that Fallout 3 had nothing to do with Fallout (mind-bogglingly, it wasn't to most) then it If it wasn't painfully obvious before that Fallout 3 had nothing to do with Fallout (mind-bogglingly, it wasn't to most) then it certainly is now. Even as a production-line cookie-cutter FPS, this would be atrociously mediocre. Thoroughly uninteresting and unremarkable.… Expand

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#33 Most Discussed Xbox 360 Game of 2009