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Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta DLC trailer
A trailer for the upcoming Fallout 3 DLC, Mothership Zeta, has surfaced. In this DLC, the aliens are back and they’re not exactly happy. You’ll even be able to experience an alien abduction first hand. This will be the fifth and final downloadable content available. It will be released August 3rd for the Xbox 360 and PC versions. The PlayStation 3 version will have to wait until the rest of the packs have been released.
What’s left for Fallout 3 after Mothership Zeta has launched? We know that a Game of The Year edition, which includes all five of the DLC installments, will be out in stores this October.
Interview Gives More Fallout 3 DLC Details
An interview linked to from a Facebook Fallout 3 page gave more details regarding the upcoming Fallout 3 content packs, Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta. Most of the information contained therein is about the first of the two, likely because it’s the more mundane of the two, featuring more commonplace quests in a new location. They’re keeping a little more of a lid on Mothership Zeta because it’s definitely more unusual.
As you may know, Point Lookout is set in the actual area of the same name, though residents of the area will notice that they have taken a generous amount of artistic license with the geography, they also drew inspiration directly from certain features and landmarks. It’s set in a location that’s not accessible by foot from the rest of the Capital Wasteland and though it wasn’t hit by any bombs it’ll still have evidence of the war, likely in the form of mutated residents.
Things there will be pretty low-tech, with new weapons being more like lever action rifles and double barrelled shotguns. The main thrust of the story will revolve around a ghoul named Desmond and a band of tribals, though there will be other quests to undertake and non-quest related areas to discover.
Mothership Zeta sound very nearly the opposite with a more linear quest and of course more advanced technology. They were pretty tight-lipped regarding anything beyond the most basic details, but what they did give is pretty interesting. The aliens are standard Roswell greys, as were the bodies at the crashed ship, though there’ll be various robots to battle against on their ship. You’ll begin simply trying to escape, though after finding out their aliens ultimate goals you’ll have more to do. There’ll also be other abductees you can interact with, and a new rifle called the disintegrator. Both DLC packs will offer some quest-related perks, but no new level-up perks.
Fallout 3 DLC Going Multiplatform, More On The Way
Sure, there have been some major issues with two out of the three downloadable content packs Bethesda has released for Fallout 3, but in spite of that they’ve been selling well. Soon they’ll be selling even better since Microsoft’s exclusivity is coming to an end and more content packs are on the way. All three of the existing DLC packs are going to be available for the PS3 this year. Operation Anchorage releases in June with The Pitt and Broken Steel following after with a four to six week interval between each.
The two new content packs will be released for PS3 eventually, but they’re going to be released for the Xbox 360 first. Point Lookout will bring the player to a new swampy area with new quests based around the real Point Lookout State Park of Maryland. Although the Fallout universe is set in an America where events eventually diverged from our reality, some of the events will draw on the collective past, including the Civil War.
Mothership Zeta continues with the running reference in the Fallout universe to the existence of aliens. In previous games you could get your hands on a powerful albeit short ranged alien blaster if you stumbled upon their crashed ship. In Fallout 3 the same thing happens, but in the DLC pack you’ll find yourself abducted by the alien ship responding to the distress call you can pick up on your Pip Boy.
As with the previous packs there’ll be new quests, characters, items to collect and even some new perks, but at this early stage no details are being discussed about what they might be, though they did say that we can expect a ton of new art for Mothership Zeta. Lookout Point is set for a June release and Mothership Zeta for July.