Point Lookout (add-on)



Point Lookout will be the fourth Fallout 3 add-on, to be released on June 23, 2009 as downloadable content (DLC) for the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live. The PlayStation 3 version is to be released after the first three add-ons have been released. The DLC will cost 800 Microsoft points or $9.99. A disc version will be available for PC and Xbox 360 together with Broken Steel as part of the second Fallout 3 Game Add-On Pack in August 2009 (and in September 2009 in France).

This add-on's street release date was broken as it was downloadable via a Gamestop code four days before scheduled release. However, Bethesda was quick to fix this and the codes stopped working approximately two hours after the reports of them being used came in.

Overview
Point Lookout takes place in the Fallout equivalent of Point Lookout State Park, a new swampland area with new quests and enemies. Point Lookout in the Fallout setting is supposedly more of a "seaside vacation town with a boardwalk" and said to have a larger landscape between one sixth and one fifth the size of the Capital Wasteland where "the bombs didn't actually fall, but the world has left it behind". Being designed by Joel Burgess and Nate Purkeypile, it has been stated it will have a "swampy-horror vibe" and will be the most open-ended of all add-ons.

Point Lookout will be playable before finishing the main quest, much like Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt, which can be played immediately upon exiting Vault 101. You'll receive a radio transmission that initially starts the quest The Local Flavor. As with previous add-ons, the main questline is said to add about 3 to 4 hours worth of game time.

Followers cannot follow you to Point Lookout, but you will be able to travel back to the Capital Wasteland via the Duchess Gambit anytime after arriving, which means you can spend as much time as you like exploring, and still head back home when need be. This is the second add-on to allow players to break away from the quest line after starting, the first being Broken Steel.

Several side-quests found in Point Lookout include investigating a woman named Consance Blackhall who has an obsession with the local cult, helping to gather ingredients for a tonic for a swamp denizen who's sick, and aiding a child who's been badly mutated from years of living off of the swamp water. .

Items
Weapons:
 * Axe
 * Backwater Rifle
 * Bio-Gas Canister
 * Double-Barrel Shotgun
 * Fertilizer Shovel
 * Lever Rifle
 * Microwave Emitter
 * Ritual Knife
 * Shovel
 * The Dismemberer

Armor and clothing:
 * Civil War Hat
 * Cryptochromatic Spectacles
 * Desmond's Eyeglasses
 * Grifter's Fit
 * Pint-Sized Slasher Mask
 * Tribal uniform
 * Workman's Coveralls

Other items:
 * Moonshine
 * Punga Fruit
 * Yeast

Locations

 * The Duchess Gambit
 * Point Lookout
 * Boardwalk
 * Calvert Mansion
 * Lighthouse
 * Trapper Shack

Characters

 * Desmond
 * Tobar
 * Consance Blackhall
 * Jackson

Other features

 * New unique perks
 * Ghoul Ecology
 * Punga Power!
 * Superior Defender
 * New traps
 * New enemies
 * Hillfolk
 * Scrapper
 * Tracker
 * Tribals
 * Swamplurk (A reskinned version of a Mirelurk )
 * Swamp Ghoul (Feral ghouls who lives in the swamps of Point Lookout.)

Videos
thumb|300px|left|E3 2009 trailer