When Fallout 3 was barely a few hours old (actually we asked the company's PR guy, Pete Hines, this question face to face about 30 minutes after the game launched), players were already curious as to what downloadable content would be released.

In late November, the game's developer announced four downloadable items that would enhance the game. Recently during an interview with IGN, the producer for the first DLC pack, called Operation Anchorage, detailed that the new story will add four to five hours of gameplay and would cost 800 points on Xbox Live. Most interestingly, while the liberation of Anchorage from the Chinese is pre-history in the lore of Fallout, players will experience the event as a virtualized simulation.

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    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 1 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 2 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 3 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 4 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 5 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 6 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 7 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 8 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 9 of 59)

    Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 10 of 59)