14 DAY TRIAL // Bethesda has some very good news for players who have enjoyed its Fallout 3 post apocalyptic role playing game. It seems that all the downloadable content released for the PC and the Xbox 360 will be coming to the PlayStation 3, after users of that console have complained of being shortchanged by Bethesda, and that at least two new pieces of DLC will be offered to all players, adding even more things to do in the Capital Wasteland.
Bethesda has only confirmed that Operation: Anchorage, which simulates the liberation of Alaska from Chinese Communist forces, is set to arrive on the PlayStation 3 at the end of June. The other two pieces of DLC, The Pitt, that brings players to the industrial hell hole of Pittsburgh, and Broken Steel, which extends the level cap and allows gamers to play after the apparent end of Fallout 3, should arrive four to six weeks after that, with dates still to be confirmed.
The two new pieces of downloadable content are Point Lookout, which had already been rumored, and Mothership Zeta. The former is set to arrive in late June and will cost 800 Microsoft Points, which is 10 dollars in real world money, and will allow players to explore a whole new area, swampy, dangerous and filled with quests. Mothership Zeta is similarly priced and will arrive in late July, taking the game in a weird direction as players will be abducted by aliens and forced to escape their clutches.
All this new stuff will also be offered on physical disks, with Broken Steel being packed together with Point Lookout and with The Pitt coming alongside Operation: Anchorage. Bethesda is also set to release a Game of the Year Edition of Fallout 3 sometime in October. It will put together in a single package all the stuff launched until then, coming to the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.
Bethesda has some really ambitious plans related to Fallout 3, with Obsidian being commissioned to create a parallel story with Fallout: New Vegas, but fans of the series still have one regret: that they will apparently not be able to see the Commonwealth and the Institute that play an important role in one of the quests of the original game.