Holy mother of God… A review? From Ben? Believe it or not, it’s real. This time I’ll be tackling the two recent DLC packs for one of the best games ever, Fallout 3—specifically the PC version—although which version shouldn’t come into play too much here. We’ll do this thing chronologically, so I’ll start with Operation: Anchorage, and don’t worry kids—I’ll be sure to give you ample warning should spoilers appear.

Operation: Anchorage

Concept here is pretty simple, and you probably already know it: climb into a simulator, kill some Red Chinese, get some loot when you get back to the Capitol Wasteland. Easy as pie, and truthfully, I agree with most of the other stuff that’s been said about this particular expansion (see, that’s what we called these thing back in the old days; in the dark times, before the Empire), namely that it eschews a great deal of the Role-Playing part of the Role-Playing Game in favor of shooting dudes up. Which is more or less OK by me, since Fallout 3’s combat system is, in a word (OK, two words) Fucking Awesome. Still, even if the thought of doing a minimum of that talk-y shit and a maximum of slaying gets you hot, Operation: Anchorage does run into its share of problems.

Sound interesting? You can check out the rest of the review over at Mostly Gaming.