Forum Overview :: Fallout III :: It's good but not great.

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I stopped playing Fallout 3 completely because I thought I was in the middle of Operation: Anchorage, and it just didn't seem that interesting. For the first mod, it was fine. I know they really wanted to show us different colors and give the thing its own tone, but I didn't like it. I want my Fallout games to look like they took place in the southwest. The writing and voice acting was average for a video game, terrible if compared to anything else. The NPC companion was sort of annoying. I did like one detail, where he was shown to be shivering at some points. That was good. But otherwise, everyone in the DLC was utterly forgettable. I liked the end stretch, where you could call in for reinforcements. Being able to call for two ROBOTS to help was nice, I don't recall being able to do anything like that in a game before. Mr. Gutsy and the Sentrybot didn't survive for very long, but I suppose the enemy Chinese soldiers had some self-loathing issues to work out against an enemy that happens to look exactly the same. Furthermore, you can't call in for constant reinforcements - if you ask for a dude with a grenade launcher and he blows himself up, you don't get another one. It was a good way to add a little bit of tension to the DLC, since there are health and ammo containers every fifty feet. (Not that I was complaining.) So yeah, it's okay - I just started Point Lookout, and it's already better. I guess, as the last bit - the best part of Operation: Anchorage was definitely the ending. Fallout 3 characters will completely throw away their lives over ANYTHING. I know that's something you just expect with RPGs in general, but I'm amazed that anyone at that outpost survived long enough for my character to enter the simulation. You'd think they'd all start gatling-lasering each other over what to have for take out long before the player character arrived. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote]