Review: Fallout 3: Broken Steel DLC
Fallout 3 is an amazing game. It was my favourite game of last year and, now that Microsoft’s exclusivity deal is over, PS3 owners can experience even more far flung corners of the wastes in six pieces of downloadable content. The first of these is Broken Steel (a.k.a the best one), why don’t I tell you about it?
Warning: This review may contain spoilers.
Lets start with the best part of all the Fallout DLC, the ability to carry on playing, exploring and earning XP. Broken Steel extends the level cap from 20 to 30 and brings with it new Perks, weapons and, the obligatory, trophies. In order to play the new quests, you have to have finished the main quest, but if you haven’t it will allow your character to go beyond the previous level 20 limit while you work towards completion.
The story starts with you coming around from an unconscious state. You are greeted by Elder Lyons, who informs you that, after turning on the Purifier, Sarah Lyons and yourself were knocked out by an unknown energy spike and that you are now recovering in the Citadel, whilst Sarah remains in a coma. After a conversation with Elder Lyons, you are tasked with helping The Brotherhood of Steel root out the remaining Enclave soldiers, destroying them once and for all. Without giving too much away this is done over three main quests which takes around 5 hours to complete, maybe less, if you still have some peeps in your party. I still had Fawkes with me and he really helped out with his Gatling Laser. As per usual, there are also some side quests to complete along the way, unfortunately I missed a couple by not exploring thoroughly enough. So there’s a tip for you.
The main quest line takes you to some familiar wasteland locations and also to some new ones. The highlight being Adams Air Force Base, an area only accessible via the Presidential Metro Subway. After navigating these tunnels you will come across the base to find, what I like to describe as, a Metal Gear-esque platform belonging to the Enclave.
Whilst playing through I did suffer some slowdown at times but this didn’t spoil what I think is the best of the Fallout 3 DLC packs. I love the fact I can now continue exploring and finish off those uncompleted side quests, like I had with Oblivion. As a big Fallout fan I welcomed the opportunity to return the wasteland and really enjoyed playing through (most of) what Broken Steel had to offer.
8.9/10
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