Fallout: Ranking Every Add-On From Worst To Best

As stated before, DLC can be an opportunity to alter a title's gameplay style and do something that would have felt out of place or otherwise jarring in the base game.

With Operation: Anchorage, Fallout 3 attempted to emulate a war-themed FPS with mixed results. However, when Fallout: New Vegas' development team decided to make their first add-on, Dead Money, a survival horror game, they absolutely nailed it.

It's no secret that the Fallout series has included plenty of horror elements over the years, but Dead Money greatly benefited by taking off the training wheels and completely committing to the idea of a wasteland horror story.

Gameplay-wise, this add-on mostly does a solid job at creating the sense of helplessness that all great survival horror games offer (save for the occasional slump.) And the fact that the Sierra Madre Casino is such a creepy and interesting setting doesn't exactly hurt.

In addition, while the plot of Dead Money is a rather simple one, it acts as a vessel for much bigger, intangible ideas. And the expansion's ending is easily one of the most iconic, thought-provoking, and powerful moments in Fallout history.