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Fallout 3 Downloadable Content: Mothership Zeta

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The Mothership Zeta DLC for Fallout 3 marks the final installment of expansions for the game, and what a way to wrap it all up!
Fallout 3 was my pick for best game of 2008. After nearly a year after it's release, I still play it like it was brand new, and that would be
true even without all the DLC add-ons! One of my favorite things about the game were the two interactions you could have with aliens
(the crash site and the random event involving the firelance). So when Bethesda announced that the final DLC for Fallout 3 would take place
on an alien spacecraft, I was counting the days until it's release, and it didn't disappoint!

Mothership Zeta finds your wasteland character abducted onto an alien mothership. From there, you must find a way off the ship and return
to earth. Along the way, you can choose to help other abducted people, many of which are from various countries and times in earth's history, very
cool! The weaponry is amazing and plentiful. New items and even a new perk can be found on the ship. The ship itself is huge, and will take many
hours of gameplay to search thoroughly!

That's about all I can say without giving much away. There are numerous surprises awaiting you, many of which are laugh-out-loud funny.
All of the DLC expansions have been unique and different, and Mothership Zeta is no exception. If you own Fallout 3, then this DLC
is a must have! It's a fun and exciting adventure that is unlike anything else you'll find in the world of Fallout 3 that is well worth it's asking price!

There were two places I absolutely had to visit in Fallout 3: Dogmeat and the crashed spacecraft. With the new downloadable content, Mothership Zeta, what was once a visit to a spooky alien craft turns into a full-fledged abduction scenario.

After being beamed up by into a saucer, the player is subjected to a disturbing sequence in which the aliens conduct experiments with painful probes. You wake up naked in a holding cell with another abductee, Somah, and have to fight your way to freedom.

Like The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage, this content is an entirely self-contained environment. You're in a spacecraft, after all. The green men, with their guardian drones, pack personal force fields and painful disintegrators that make the weapon you found on the dead alien in Fallout 3 look like a pop gun.

Leading the way through the labyrinthine architecture is Sally, a little girl who is small enough to traverse the ductwork. With a nod to Newt from the movie Aliens, she is at turns annoying (not all of her advice is sound) and helpful. You eventually are joined by other abductees awoken from cryo-sleep, including a samurai, a cowboy, and a medic abducted from Operation: Anchorage.

Like Operation: Anchorage, Mothership Zeta forces cocky players to change their tactics. The aliens are physically weaker but they make up for it with powerful weapons and armor. They come in groups of three or more and attack in enclosed spaces. Mothership Zeta is no cakewalk.

Along the way, the aliens plans are revealed. Creepy tapes of abductees being interviewed and experimented are littered throughout the ship. At one point, the player must conduct a spacewalk - although there's not much of a challenge in doing so. The finale is suitably climactic as you attempt to command the ship to fire on another UFO while fending off wave after wave of angry aliens. The win is hard-earned.

Mothership Zeta provides a few items that will be valuable back on Earth: biogel (heals hundreds of hit points), a disintegrator (inflicts massive amounts of damage in a single shot), and the energy ball-bouncing drone cannon (acts as a grenade but is very imprecise). When I returned to the regular Fallout 3 game, I used the drone cannon to devastating effect, especially because you can bounce the shots around corners.

Motership Zeta isn't for everyone. The foes are a bit repetitive, and listening to the alien chatter (they don't speak English, natch) gets old fast. More often than not I had to resort to bashing their big green heads in with a shock baton - ugly work, as the aliens squeal with every hit. But for fans of 50s science fiction, little green men, and Mars Attacks, this is a must buy.

If you love fallout 3 and can`t get enough then this is a must buy. Yes the $10 DLC`s are getting very old and expensive. I have all 5 of the $10 downloads for this game. Beat them all but I am still working on this one. I have not been dissapointed yet but I love this game. I dont recommend this if you dont love the game or havent played it for about 50 hours. Fallout 3 has tons of stuff to do before buying any DLC`s. You could spend 100`s of hours playing it like I have. If you have seen almost everything in the game and love the game then I recommend getting all 5 $10 downloads if you have the money. Some of these down loads seem to not have much to do with the game. 3 or 4 of them anyway but I still love them. They always have cool new weapons, characters, villians and items. The achievements are fun to get too if you are playing on 360. troyoy

Please be aware that this add on is included with the game of the year edition for about twenty dollars.

Everything that I have seen about this DLC tells me it is the Bees' Knees. Here is my question: why pay $29.99 for it here when it is 800 MS points or $10 to download it from Xboxlive???

the mother ship is really hard the aliens wont die lol but is fun you get some neat weapons and if you want you can kill your budys and take there armor

THIS IS MY MOST FAVORITE DLC. THE BEST OF THE BEST. THE ONLY THING I DIDNT LIKE, IS THE FACT THAT ONCE YOU BEAT THIS DLC, ALONG WITH THE OTHERS, IS THE FEELING THAT FALLOUT 3 WONT BE ANY FUN ANYMORE. OVERALL, THE BEST DLC.

The game was a lot of fun. Once you get abducted, You lose all your gear and have to survive long enough until you find all your stuff. It has creepy alien elements, and unique sound effects. It is Fallout, but with an alien look to it. There are other survivors on the ship that you can help out and they can help you out too. At first there wasn't a lot of new weapons to get, but by the end, I probably had 7 or 8 new pieces of alien weaponry, most were unique items. Explore the ship carefully, to find all the new weapons. Explore the junk piles carefully, and the cargo hold---there's really not any specific mission there, but plenty of goodies. Besides the aliens, there were new robots to attack too. Don't worry about not being able to carry everything, because you can come back aboard Zeta and get what you couldn't hold the first time. It's a little boring and monotonous in the beginning, but then it starts to get good. The final battle/battles before the end are fun, too. One final hint: After your "space walk" Don't take off your spacesuit, until the room decompresses! Oops!

Fallout 3 is a great game, one that I've sunk probably 100+ hours into. Some of the DLC content is really good as well (Point Lookout, Broken Steel) but this one is a total flop. The premise is not terrible: the lone wanderer is abducted from the Wasteland by an alien ship and must find a way to escape. However, it's basically a stripped down gaming experience that is nothing like the original game.

First off the game play is just repetitive. Unlike usual offerings from Bethesda (including Oblivion) all the roll playing elements have been minimized in favor of running-and-gunning. Gameplay consists of walking down endless corridors and shooting aliens in the head (with VATS making it even more repetitive) without any of the charm or grit of a game like Prey (which had faults but was a hell of a lot more fun than MOTHERSHIP ZETA).

There are few to no characters to interact with, no locations to scout, very little storyline to follow, and none of the glorious little trivialities that make Bethesda games so much fun to play: random encounters, notes, journals, unique items and locations, funny dialogue. All the stuff that puts you in the drivers seat of HOW you want to play the game.

Another brutal element of MOTHERSHIP ZETA is that once started, you cannot quit and go back to the wasteland until you've completed it! This especially sucks if you realize you don't like it part way through. You pretty much have to load up a saved game before you got on board.

My experience with Bethesda in both Oblivion and Fallout 3 is that the games themselves are GREAT, and the DLC content is only average. There are free MODS that do more to make the game better than all the DLCs combined (for Fallout 3 check out MARTS MONSTER MOD; it is truly awesome--best of all, it doesn't cost a dime).

This is a DLC to skip unless you just have to have all of them. Otherwise keep your money and get a mod instead.

1.5/5 Stars.

NOTE: THIS REVIEW REFERS TO THE PC VERSION OF THE GAME, BUT THERE IS NO ENTRY FOR THAT HERE. HOWEVER, I THINK IT IS STILL RELEVANT.

I really like Fallout 3. It is one of my favorite games of all time. This content pack sounded fun.. seemed like it would break up the monotony a bit. Well.. it does.. but only to add more monotony than I ever dreamed possible. This is nothing but run and gun. The ship is a maze of corridors and rooms that all look exactly the same and there is nothing to do here but shoot the same aliens over and over and over again. About 1/3 of the way through it, I was ready to go back to the main game, but it is not possible without "unplugging" this content pack. So.. I kept going and going and going.. killing the same aliens and looking at the same rooms for what seemed like 6 hours. Finally I was so frustrated and bored with it that I actually stopped playing for about a month. I came back to it yesterday to finish it, and again I felt nothing but boredom and frustration. I finally resorted to using the console "kill" command on the aliens just to end it quicker. There is a sort of "boss" battle at the end, but it is fairly baffling, as it consists of pushing one button, waiting for it to light up again, and pushing it again... repeat.. repeat.. reapeat until "boss" is dead. It's as uncreative as the rest of this pack... but hey.. it's finally finished and I don't have to come back to this POS mothership again.

Now that I'm back in the Wasteland again, I have kind of lost interest in the game entirely, because playing Mothership Zeta left such a bad taste in my mouth, the flaws of the game in general are amplified. I think I will wait another few weeks before finishing Fallout 3. I can not recommend this to ANYONE. Even if you wait on the GOTY edition and get this plugin as part of the pack, I still recommend either unplugging it or just not going to the area at all, because this pack is AWFUL.