Modding has been a significant part of Bethesda's player community since 1996s The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, which players modified despite having no sanctioned tools with which to do so. Another pack, the Pittsburgh-area 'The Pit,' will ship in February, and a third, 'Broken Steel,' will ship in March, continuing the main quest line by allowing players to join the armored Brotherhood of Steel. The first DLC pack, 'Operation: Anchorage,' will reproduce the liberation of Chinese-occupied Alaska, and will ship in January 2009.

The new single-player DLC, on the other hand, has long been promised ahead of the game's release, and is exclusive to the PC and Xbox 360 platforms on PC, it will be distributed through Microsoft's Games for Windows Live platform, which is integrated into the game. It will be offered free to PC players.Įven as recently as the month before Fallout 3's release, the fate of its mod tools were in question, with marketing VP Pete Hines claiming that mods were 'not on the schedule,' because 'it takes a lot of time and effort.' The official editor is entitled G.E.C.K., or Garden of Eden Creation Kit. Bethesda plans next month to make available user content creation tools for its open-world RPG Fallout 3, with paid downloadable content for PC and Xbox 360 users coming in January.

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