Editing Fallout (section)

===Fallout 3===
[[File:Fallout_3.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Scenic overlook". Gotta love them 4th wall breaches!]]
The series turns into a Skyrim/Oblivion 3D RPG with guns - Many cheered as Fallout was revived from the precipice of obscurity, and others were filled with [[RAGE]] over an assortment of things, like Power Armor nerfed to the equal of an Imperial Guard flak armor. After all... Rage. Rage never changes

Two hundred years after the Great War, a civil war breaks out in Vault 101 after its head physician, <s>Liam Neeson</s> James, leaves. His child then escapes the chaos in search of him. This Lone Wanderer, in his search for his father, discovers that he was not born in Vault 101 as he had been led to believe, but in a beached aircraft carrier named Rivet City. His father had been working on "Project Purity" to purge the radiation from the Potomac River to provide clean water for the world. Following his father's trail, the Lone Wanderer eventually comes into conflict with the resurgent Enclave which wants to take the project for itself. Canonically the player fights the Enclave off, mind-fucks the President and helps purify the water of the Capital Wasteland with the Brotherhood of Steel. They also die due to radiation but gets better in the DLC, and chase the Enclave to a mobile base crawler and finally bomb them from orbit (or Brotherhood citadel if you are feeling like an asshole).

The first DLC is called "Operation Anchorage", where a group of BoS Outcasts are trying to gain access to a cache of pre-war tech in a bunker. Unfortunately for them, the only way to gain access to said tech is by playing a vr milsim centered around the liberation of Anchorage, and it only runs on the Pip-Boy operating system. Fortunately for you, ''you'' have one of those, so naturally the Outcasts are <s>desperate</s> willing to split the loot with you just this once. What follows is basically the atompunk version of those military first-person shooters everyone likes to make fun of as you fight the (virtual) Chinese army in the name of 'Murica!

The second DLC is "The Pitt" where you are recruited to help liberate some slaves. Your destination: the ruins of Pittsburgh, now the Pitt, which, while not hit directly during the war, was heavily irradiated by the nearby river, causing the locals to degenerate into feral cannibals. So all in all, an overall improvement. That said, the infrastructure is still intact, so some raiders have set up shop at the metal refineries with their slaves to do all the work for them. Speaking of slaves, the only way into the Pitt is to pretend to be one, so you're gonna be working from the bottom up to infiltrate their society. Once you reach the guy in charge, however, you'll quickly realize that things aren't so black-and-white as they seem, and you'll have to make a choice that ''isn't'' tracked by the karma meter!

The third DLC is "Broken Steel". If you have Fallout 3, ''get this''. It adds a post-game campaign that allows you to keep playing for as long as you want (something New Vegas sorely lacks). As for the story, it's changed so that now when the time comes to activate Project Purity, not only will you not die instantly if you do it yourself, you can instead have certain radiation-immune companions do it for you. The narrator will still call you a coward, but better to be a coward than a fool. Either way you go about it, you wake up two weeks later to either a wasteland where the availability of fresh water has opened up new opportunities for the locals, or, if you used the modified FEV, a wasteland where everyone (including you) is slowly being killed by the contaminated water. Regardless, you proceed to help the Brotherhood of Steel mop up the remaining Enclave forces.

The fourth DLC is "Point Lookout", which introduces a whole new map set in the eponymous Maryland location. Unlike most other places, no bombs were dropped on Point Lookout; a little radiation may have drifted in on the tides, but that's small-time compared to places like California or the Capital Wasteland. That said, the region is infested with mutant hillbillies that will try to kill you. Things to do here include settling a grudge between a ghoul and a brain in a jar, going on a hallucinogenic spirit journey, tracing the path of a Chinese spy, oh, and [[H.P. Lovecraft|finding a pseudo-Necronomicon that said mutated inbreds now keep]], nothing major. 

The fifth and final expansion is ''Mothership Zeta'', which sees you getting abducted by those aliens whose wrecks you kept finding throughout the series. You then fight your way to the bridge of the ship you're on and take over with the aid of cryogenically frozen fellow captives from throughout history, including: a pre-war soldier, a cowboy, and a Sengoku-era samurai. There's not much else to say about this one.

There are a good deal of cool moments and set pieces. That said, there are also some rather derpy ones as well for the main story. In praticular after you get out of the Vault, you come across a town built around an old un-exploded but still active atomic bomb. You are given the choice of either permanently defusing the nuke or arming it so a rich asshole can blow the town up for the lulz. In short, your options in regards to Megaton are "do the obviously sensible thing even an evil raider would do" or "Be a completely insane mass murdering asshole for no reason". Mind you, said rich asshole had ordered his messenger to evacuate the town...