Fallout 3 - Operation Anchorage Review and More

Looks like Fallout 3 is on everyones' mind today.  Let's start with the Eurogamer review, where Will Porter awards a score of 5/10 after criticising the nothing-but-a-shooter design and the pricing for 2.5 medicore hours:

Sad to say, but remove the role-play dynamics from Fallout 3 and you're left with a slightly duff shooter (hey, even Todd Howard agrees). Operation Anchorage could have got away with it if it had been clever and more knowing, like the Tranquillity Lane simulation in the full game, but as it is it just feels shallow. For example, expositional holotapes are found in dull, obvious closets directly on your path and behind the easiest of locks; hacking into computers never really goes beyond redirecting the attention of a gun turret; hardly anything can be picked up or ferreted around in. Just so much of what makes the Fallout 3 experience such a complete and all-encompassing one is stripped away, and if you've already spent a fair proportion of the past four months in the DC wasteland you'll feel like you're only playing half the game you love.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun finds buying Operation Anchorage from GfWL is so long and traumatic, there's no time to talk about the content:

Restarted. Run GFWL. Log in. And there it is. The evidence that Operation Anchorage exists. My MS points balance is empty, which means it needs to launch IE (dust flying everywhere) and asks me to log in again 30 seconds after logging in. You can’t buy 800 points, obviously. You have to buy 500 or 1000. I don’t want 500 or 1000, I want 800. £8.50 for 1000. Of course it requires a credit card, there’s no option for Paypal or Google Checkout. Nor even a Switch card. It’s gotta be about those credit cards! Fortunately mine’s already registered from 360 excursions, so that will save time.

The official site has a new trailer if you'd like to see it in action.  In related stuff, MTV Multiplayer just reached the end of the standard game and writes about their confusion with the abrupt design.