The hardest and last Fallout 3 DLC is also the most pointless. Mothership Zeta sucks. The novelty of the DLC's alien hook wears off quick, and the level design is complete and total trash, an endless waltz through identical-looking chromium chambers with no enemy or weapon variety to be found. There's barely a plot, there are no moral choices to be made, and in spite of being awfully short, the padded-out and tedious backend of this DLC makes the entire experience feel like an egregious slog. There's also a racist samurai that literally no one understands, not even you. Even if you have 10 Intelligence, you can't understand the gobbledygook this dude spits out, which turns him into a racist caricature, a joke character where the only joke is "haha look at de funny foreigner and his gibberish". Likewise, you can't communicate with any of the aliens either, so their similar gibberish-shtick wears thin as well. This whole fucking DLC wears thin after half an hour.

Fucking awful. I do like the Alien Atomizer, though, and Sally's a charming kid when all's said and done.

Reviewed on May 27, 2022


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