Fallout 3: Point Lookout

by Bethesda

Product Features

• Exclusively for use with Fallout 3, for download from Xbox Live (game sold separately)
• No disc included: Downloadable Content Only
• Requires full version of the game to play
• Must have an Xbox LIVE account to redeem
• Storage Required

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002CSUMPQ
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 23, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,680 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #68 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Role-Playing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Token card that contains a unique code to purchase Point Lookout for Fallout 3 over the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. - Requires full version of the game to play - Exclusively for use with Fallout 3, for download from Xbox LIVE (game sold separately) - No disc included: Downloadable Content Only - Must have an Xbox LIVE account to redeem - Storage Required

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic addition to the Fallout saga., July 23, 2009

By 

Scott Edward Calibraxis (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fallout 3: Point Lookout (Video Game)

I purchased this as an online download. I played it with a level 20-30 character(after installing the Broken Steel download that raises the level cap), and earned about 4 levels while playing it through. I think this would still be an excellent experience even playing with a level-maxed character, because of the tight quests and very effectively staged battles.

This add-on is so good--it not only adds an additional mini-world, Point Lookout, that you travel to from the Wasteland (at any point in your game, and you can go back and forth), **it adds another large building to the Wasteland itself in order to flesh out one of the quests originating in Point Lookout**(--I was incorrect about this, see comment). It also provides several new weapons, and a few new creature types. The new weapons can be added to your inventory and be used back in the original Wasteland setting.

You can't take Dogmeat or any other companions along on to this location- the computer has them automatically wait for you back at their home bases. Just as well, since the feeling of being all alone and far from your usual base of operations serves to increase the tension and jeopardy.

The Point Lookout environment is a really welcome change of pace from the Wasteland. It combines white trash Maryland with some white trash Louisiana flavorings, and uses lots of new textures, graphic elements, and building designs to create a very unique look, in comparison to the endless slog through concrete rubble that you may be tired of back in DC. Atmospheric swamps, ramshackle inbred family farms, dilapidated mansions, a rural prison camp, and submerged caverns are a few of the settings.

The new enemy types are really fierce- truly nauseating inbred locals that will remind you of mutated versions of the Appalachian rednecks from Deliverance or the inbred family from that infamous X-files episode(!), complete with some "I'm gonna make you squeal!"-type scripting. They employ the new weapons, such as a nastily accurate rifle, and a mule-kicking double-barreled shotgun. These muties and some other enemies in the module can be quite a challenge, as many fights will have so many enemies, coming at you so quickly, that they will really test your VATS point-management and free-targeting abilities, as well as your tactical skills in laying mines, using cover, and employing various weapons.

In fact, the best aspect of the combat in this module is that many of the fights are incredibly staged set-pieces, with enemies coming at you in waves, employing the environment--they blow holes through ceilings and jump down, blast a hole in the wall and pour through, shoot at your from rooftops while their allies storm your position--in short, these foes come at YOU, in scripted and staged battles that will make your pulse pound. This lends a highly frenetic and tense pace to the action in many places--a sense of urgency that was lacking in many of the original campaign's fights.

Of note as well is the nice balance between tightly plotted quests with some choices to make in how to carry them out, a bit of exploration time to wander, and a good balance between indoor and outdoor locales. In short, I loved it--awesome combat, totally fresh change-of-pace from the original setting: all-in-all, well worth the money.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, July 3, 2009

By 

W. Carney (Washington) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fallout 3: Point Lookout (Video Game)

This addon is one of the best so far, it's huge! Huge area, huge amount of quests! It got a story that makes you wish it did not have to end!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great addition to a fantastic game, July 28, 2009

By 

Kernunnos13 (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fallout 3: Point Lookout (Video Game)

My son and I play the base game, Fallout 3, all of the time. He has gone onto complete the game 3 times.

We got this, and he took off. It adds itself into the main game perfectly and flawlessly. The overall play is just the same as the game, but a whole new area. The fights are a bit more difficult, but that just adds to the gameplay challenge.

If you have Fallout3, get this!