Operation: Anchorage is the first set of downloadable content for Fallout 3, costing about ten dollars (800 Microsoft Points). It gives you access to a few new quests once installed, though most of them lead up to the main event: A simulation of how the Alaskan battle between America and China before the Great War might have gone. Once in the sim, you’re stripped of most of your equipment (but your stats, skills, and some perks carry over, including the Mysterious Stranger) and put in the role of a special-operations soldier with the American army. Your goal is to take out several objectives and forward bases, so that your allies can press through to reclaim the area.

While your equipment and exact goals change, the basic idea remains the same: Run into portions of the Chinese base, avoid or kill everyone (it’s vastly easier to do the latter), destroy some mission critical equipment, and move on. At first it’s a solo operation with mostly familiar weapons, but further in you’ll find yourself using weapons specifically created for this DLC pack and leading a small squad of soldiers.