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There are five expansion packs for the Bethesda action role-playing game Fallout 3. Each expansion adds new missions, new locales to visit, and new items for the player to make use of. Bethesda's Todd Howard first confirmed during E3 2008 that downloadable content would be prepared for the Xbox 360 and Windows versions of Fallout 3.[2][3] Of the five, Broken Steel has the largest effect on the game, altering the ending, increasing the level cap to 30, and allowing the player to continue playing past the end of the main quest line.[4] The Game of The Year edition of Fallout 3 includes the full game and all five expansions.[5]

Operation: Anchorage is the first Fallout 3 downloadable content pack, and takes place as a virtual reality military simulation in the main game where the player character is stripped of their equipment and is forced to use the replacements provided. The content focuses on the titular event in the Fallout timeline before the Great War took place, in which the United States Army liberated Anchorage, Alaska, from Chinese forces. The pack contains several new quests, new items, and adds four new achievements. Gameplay within the simulation is different than the main game; health and ammo are replenished by stations in certain areas of the simulation world, items functionally do not suffer from decay (the items actually do decay, but have a health so high that it is virtually impossible to affect performance), and enemy corpses disappear instead of allowing the player to loot them for supplies.

Broken Steel is the third and most significant downloadable content pack, altering the original ending of Fallout 3 and allowing the player to continue playing past the end of the main quest line.[27] If the player personally activated Project Purity, the player's subsequent death is retconned and they instead fall into a coma. Two weeks later, the player joins the ranks of the Brotherhood of Steel and helps rid the Capital Wasteland of the Enclave once and for all.[28] The pack also raises the game's level cap from 20 to 30. It includes 3 main quests and 3 side-quests.[29] Three Dog has new dialogue in this expansion, but no new songs are added. The new weapons in Broken Steel, including the Tesla Cannon, are some of the most powerful weapons in Fallout 3.[30]

Point Lookout is the fourth downloadable content pack, and takes place in Point Lookout State Park in Maryland. Unlike other areas in Fallout, no bombs were dropped on Point Lookout, but it has nonetheless degenerated into a place just as unforgiving as the Capital Wasteland. Humanity has left it behind and it is now described as a large swamp wasteland.[43] This pack has new enemies called swampfolk, who are inbred hillbillies that openly attack with weapons such as axes, shovels, and double-barreled shotguns. Unlike the previous content packs, which simply added additional landmarks to the main map (Broken Steel also added two very limited maps), Point Lookout has a fully explorable wasteland. Point Lookout was released on June 23, 2009 for the Xbox 360 and the PC and on October 8, 2009 for the PlayStation 3[43]