Review: Fallout 3 Broken Steel
Broken Steel is the third piece of downloadable content that Bethesda have released for Fallout 3 and this piece attempts to address people’s complaints with the ending of Fallout 3. So saying that be wary reading the rest of this review because there may be spoilers below, and for those people that don’t read this paragraph because they are too lazy.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW!!!
Broken Steel starts off at the original ending of Fallout 3 and it gives you a couple additional choices to make of who to send into the purifier. Most people that saw the ending of Fallout 3 pretty much thought that the ending was total bullshit, and unfortunately for Broken Steel the ending is still bullshit, in some ways more so. But it does have one good side to it and that’s that the game no longer completely ends and you can continue playing, which of course makes sense as the new quest line happens two weeks later.
The main quest line is basically you working with the Brotherhood of Steel to destroy the remnants of the Enclave that are still operating in the Wasteland. So you fight alongside Liberty Prime in the first part and mostly watch for a little bit while the Enclave get totally destroyed by Prime.
"DEMOCRACY IS TRUTH! COMMUNISM IS DEATH!"
After that you end up doing a couple of tasks around the Wastes and like the other bits of DLC this is very combat focused and really there isn’t much to do other than shoot guys in the face. And to help you in this task there are a couple of cool new weapons, the only one that seemed to be anything to write home about is the Tesla Cannon, but there is a sort of flamer/mortar thing and a tri laser (which is actually way lamer than it sounds). There are a couple of new additional quests here and there but if you’ve already done the all the quests in Fallout 3 it’ll take you ages to find them.
The Blue Beam of Death
The level cap has also been raised to 30 which is pretty good and will take you a decent amount of time to get from 20 to 30. With this level cap raise comes a couple of new perks the coolest of which is a level 30 perk that causes you to explode like a nuke when you get down to 20 hp. There are a couple of new enemies but nothing hugely interesting other than bloody hell they have a lot of health.
So thats basically a run down of what Broken Steel adds but there’s actually a decent amount and at 800MS points its a pretty good deal its just really annoying that it doesn’t actually fix the ending of the game because it still sucks. But mechanically it’s filled with a bunch of new stuff thats worth getting.