Fallout 3 - The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage (Add-on) (Xbox 360)
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Fallout 3 - The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage (Add-on) (Xbox 360)
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Fallout 3 - The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage (Add-on) (Xbox 360)
Date: 21/04/12
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Advantages: Great new weaponry...if your game allows you to complete the downloads!
Disadvantages: The Pitt bugged to frack, won't let you complete it in the majority of instances!
Operation Anchorage was the first of five extra content downloads that was released to build onto your existing Fallout 3 game and is something of a disappointment! I have this as part of my Game Of The Year Edition so it's not quite so bad but I wouldn't have wanted to pay 800 Microsoft Points for this or buy it and The Pitt on a seperate disc because I think I migt have felt ripped off ~ especially when you hear what I have to say about The Pitt!!
Operation Anchorage can be played at any point in your existing game ~ you just have to travel to the specified location when you have downloaded this. It is based in an old Military cache where a group of Brotherhood Of Steel marines are trying to break in. The only way to do this is to play through an old simulation which depicts the defence of Alaska against the Chinese and, funnily enough, the only one who can enter that simulation safely is.....YOU!
The whole thing feels very retro, which is probably the intent, and the game-play comes across as very dated. Like I say, I feel this is probably intended but it doesn't make for a very enjoyable game! Thankfully it is fairly short and you do get some pretty awesome new weaponry including the Gauss Rifle, a laser sniper rifle, which I am assured is a throwback to the original Fallout games on the P.C!
Overall, I was not overly impressed and didn't think this added much to the main game though parts of it at the beginning were quite fun until it started losing its novelty value!
Next up is The Pitt. This sees you travelling via train tunnel across State to Pittsburgh where a slave mining colony has been opened. Your job is to enter the slave pit, via a mined Bridge armed with snipers much like the bridge at the end of Escape From New York, and discover the truth concerning a cure for the mutations that occur in those working the mining operation. During this add-on, you get the chance to join forces either with the Pitt Boss or the slaves but, as with all the Fallout missions, this is no black or white choice with moral implications whichever decision you decide to make!
This is slightly better though not as good as Point Lookout which remains the best of these downloads so far! The missions include finding a load of steel ingots a bit like the hidden packages side missions on the GTA games but here you find several ingots all together at once so, with one hundred to find, you don't need to find one hundrd seperate locations. There is also your standard infiltrate-an-enemy-base-and-wipe-out-every-fracke r-there style mission and a it of an ongoing story thread that runs through the dpwnload. Again, some new fancy weapons are available that you can take back out into The Capital Wasteland so you would think it was worth playing......
Not so! The Pitt is bugged big style which means that on occasions, the game freezes between loading screens and you cannot do anything with it except switch off and reload! This is not just me! Scroll through the Internet and you will find lots of others who have experienced the same problem!! For me, I got right up until the final mission before the game started bugging in the same place EVERY TIME!!!!!
Basically as soon as I tried to re-enter The Mill to find a certain character, the loading screen would freeze. Once, I got through the door, achieved what I wanted and attempted to return to someone else I needed to meet in order to leave The Pitt and the game froze again between loads. Luckily I had saved my game just before trying to go through the door but when I tried to load that save, again the game froze on the loading screen!
After several days and lots of attempts, even trying to do the mission differently thinking that might be a factor of it freezing, eventually I just gave up and returned to an earlier save I had made just before I entered The Pitt! This is good advice! If you are going to play these download levels, always have a save ready just before you enter them so that if they do bug or play up, you have a get-out clause.
For me, the bugging issues and the fact that I am not alone and that lots of others have had the same experiences and the fact that Bethesda have released on this GOTY Edition a flawed product YOU CANNOT PLAY TO COMPLETION, all contribute to me giving this package the lowest score possible to give! I would have given this 2-3 *s for gameplay but I am that p****ed off with having to jump back to an earlier point, losing all the experience and extra equpment I had gathered (not to mention gameplay hours wasted) that I really don't feel these downloads desrve any better!
Fallout 3 is an awesome game that deserves much better than this!
I just hope that the Mothership and Broken Steel downloads more than make up for this or I will be forced to reconsider my opinion of Fallout 3 and of Bethesda in general! I really thin it is unprofessional and amateurish to relase a download that is bugged and that you cannot complete and it will take A LOT Bethesda for you to make this up to me!
Operation Anchorage can be played at any point in your existing game ~ you just have to travel to the specified location when you have downloaded this. It is based in an old Military cache where a group of Brotherhood Of Steel marines are trying to break in. The only way to do this is to play through an old simulation which depicts the defence of Alaska against the Chinese and, funnily enough, the only one who can enter that simulation safely is.....YOU!
The whole thing feels very retro, which is probably the intent, and the game-play comes across as very dated. Like I say, I feel this is probably intended but it doesn't make for a very enjoyable game! Thankfully it is fairly short and you do get some pretty awesome new weaponry including the Gauss Rifle, a laser sniper rifle, which I am assured is a throwback to the original Fallout games on the P.C!
Overall, I was not overly impressed and didn't think this added much to the main game though parts of it at the beginning were quite fun until it started losing its novelty value!
Next up is The Pitt. This sees you travelling via train tunnel across State to Pittsburgh where a slave mining colony has been opened. Your job is to enter the slave pit, via a mined Bridge armed with snipers much like the bridge at the end of Escape From New York, and discover the truth concerning a cure for the mutations that occur in those working the mining operation. During this add-on, you get the chance to join forces either with the Pitt Boss or the slaves but, as with all the Fallout missions, this is no black or white choice with moral implications whichever decision you decide to make!
This is slightly better though not as good as Point Lookout which remains the best of these downloads so far! The missions include finding a load of steel ingots a bit like the hidden packages side missions on the GTA games but here you find several ingots all together at once so, with one hundred to find, you don't need to find one hundrd seperate locations. There is also your standard infiltrate-an-enemy-base-and-wipe-out-every-fracke r-there style mission and a it of an ongoing story thread that runs through the dpwnload. Again, some new fancy weapons are available that you can take back out into The Capital Wasteland so you would think it was worth playing......
Not so! The Pitt is bugged big style which means that on occasions, the game freezes between loading screens and you cannot do anything with it except switch off and reload! This is not just me! Scroll through the Internet and you will find lots of others who have experienced the same problem!! For me, I got right up until the final mission before the game started bugging in the same place EVERY TIME!!!!!
Basically as soon as I tried to re-enter The Mill to find a certain character, the loading screen would freeze. Once, I got through the door, achieved what I wanted and attempted to return to someone else I needed to meet in order to leave The Pitt and the game froze again between loads. Luckily I had saved my game just before trying to go through the door but when I tried to load that save, again the game froze on the loading screen!
After several days and lots of attempts, even trying to do the mission differently thinking that might be a factor of it freezing, eventually I just gave up and returned to an earlier save I had made just before I entered The Pitt! This is good advice! If you are going to play these download levels, always have a save ready just before you enter them so that if they do bug or play up, you have a get-out clause.
For me, the bugging issues and the fact that I am not alone and that lots of others have had the same experiences and the fact that Bethesda have released on this GOTY Edition a flawed product YOU CANNOT PLAY TO COMPLETION, all contribute to me giving this package the lowest score possible to give! I would have given this 2-3 *s for gameplay but I am that p****ed off with having to jump back to an earlier point, losing all the experience and extra equpment I had gathered (not to mention gameplay hours wasted) that I really don't feel these downloads desrve any better!
Fallout 3 is an awesome game that deserves much better than this!
I just hope that the Mothership and Broken Steel downloads more than make up for this or I will be forced to reconsider my opinion of Fallout 3 and of Bethesda in general! I really thin it is unprofessional and amateurish to relase a download that is bugged and that you cannot complete and it will take A LOT Bethesda for you to make this up to me!
Summary: A flawed product that severly disappoints!
