Fallout 3 DLC retail package spotted

by Richard Mitchell on Apr 26th 2009 1:30PM

Imagine our surprise when we woke up this morning to discover Electronic Theatre reporting that Fallout 3's 'Operation: Anchorage' and 'The Pitt' DLC would both be released at retail in a single package. We made a quick check on Amazon and, sure enough, there it is. According to Amazon, the packaged will be released for both PC and Xbox 360 on May 26 (Electronic Theatre is reporting May 29 for the UK) for $19.99. Both packs are currently $10 apiece, so the retail package won't save you any money, but the box says it comes with a free Vault Boy poster, so that's something, right?

Curiously absent from the package is the upcoming 'Broken Steel' DLC. We would think a (presumably) $30 package that added 12-15 hours to Fallout 3 and made it open-ended would be a no-brainer, but apparently Bethesda has other plans.

We've contacted Bethesda for further details and will update this post when we have new information.

Source - Electronic Theatre: Fallout 3 Downloadable Content Retail Package Revealed
Source - Amazon: Fallout 3 Expansion Pack (Xbox 360)
Source - Amazon: Fallout 3 Expansion Pack (Windows)

Tags: amazon, bethesda, Bethesda-Game-Studios, Bethesda-Softworks, dlc, electronic-theatre, fallout-3, Microsoft, operation-anchorage, RPG, the-pitt, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (60)

I'll just wait for the inevitable GOTY edition which will include everything, thanks.

Bethesda thought about making a game of the year edition, but their computers kept crashing when they tried to access their files

Right there with you. Just give me the same deal that Oblivion currently offers.

I bet that is what they are waiting for.

Hey Moptimus, did he play it left flip?

thats what i am doing as well.

yeah. The sad thing is, he was really excited to buy it so he could play with the Spiders from Mars

I've waited to buy the DLC partly because of Broken Steel and partly because i wanted to see if there would be a retail package with all of them, so now i'm wondering if they are going to also have one with broken steel later, oh well, this is still nice

But you save a whole penny! ;)

Although if you buy it at a retail store, you'd have to pay sales tax (in most states, at least) which would make it more expensive overall.

Get it from amazon, no tax. Plus, when we buy points via xbox live we pay tax also, so paying tax at a store is not really different from buying points online and buying the stuff.

forced into buying more microsoft points than you need and having too little left over to get anything else is more incentive for me to get it from a store

I'm guessing that they've got more DLC on the way, and they plan on selling them in packs of two.

Also, when do we get dog armor?

Hrm. I was hoping to get all three at once at a discount. Does this imply that might not happen?

@Dr. Flex - are you sure that we pay tax on MS points? $12.50 was charged to my credit card for 1000 points, which doesn't seem to include tax.

In any event, the difference is small...but there does seem to be a (slight) difference.

It depends on the state if you're charged tax for online purchases.

I've paid sales tax when buying ms points on my visa here in Canada.

In before whining ps3 fanboys

AH!!!! WaAAHH!!! why can't ps3 owners get some dlc too!!!! WAAA!!

well, it's true. how would you feel if modern warfare 2 had exclusive maps only for ps3? crappy right? if you're gonna give a platform a game, you should also give them the extra content for that game. they might as well not have released it on ps3 considering broken steel is gonna change the game!

Look at the 360 fanboys whining over the Joker levels in Arkham Asylum, even though it's all but confirmed to be coming to the 360 shortly after.

It works both ways.. But exclusive DLC, timed or not really needs to stop.

Either tell Bethesda to stop loving money or tell Microsoft to stop sending trucks fill of money to Bethesda.

Actually I don't think this one has anything to do with Microsoft.. Isn't it just Bethesda's inability to code DLC for the PS3, the same way Oblivion never got any?

No Snowblind, Microsoft secured an exclusive deal with Bethesda for this DLC, just like the DLC for GTA4.

@Snowblind: the PS3 got Shivering Isles and Kniggets of the Nine was built in from day one. There are some other tiny quests it didn't get though.

Is this release a disc or just dlc codes?

Thats a good question. If it were only on PC I would say almost definitelly a disk, but as it's on 360 as well it could go either way

These two both sounded pretty crap from reviews and forums, and at $20 it becomes a level of money where you can buy something else awesome.

I don't know where you read that, but they both got excellents from PC gamer. :P

It would seem that in the UK it costs slightly more to buy from amazon. Its retailing at £14.99, and 1000 MS points costs £8.50...making the DLC £13.60. That said, I will definitelly be getting this from amazon for one reason - I don't own a 360 (I would be getting the PC version) so I have no use for the 400 MS points I would have left over. It really annoys me that everything on live costs some multiple of 400pts (usually) but you can only buy in multiples of 500.

"Broken Steel" might cost $30? Damn. That plus $10 each for "OA" and "The Pitt" and you're closing in on the full cost of a new game.

Seeing as how I bought Fallout 3 when it came out, do I want to experience the total Fallout 3 experience for $110?

Broken steel will cost $10 so a package of all three would be $30

wow

I first heard about this retail expansion disk, from the Betheseda forums. But the thread I read wasn't interested in this expansion disk. Lots of online retailers have had this up for a couple of days. But they also have a second Fallout 3 expansion disk up. This one is called, "Broken Steel and Point Lookout", and all of the online retailers I checked, reported it will have a June 9th release date. So if your wondering why they didn't throw in Broken Steel to the O:A, Pitt pack thats why.

Link please?

Hopefully this could mean that we end up with it being released on steam too, once GFW Live marketplace loses its monopoly on the DLC... which would be great since I don't want to buy anything through the GFWL marketplace.

Yay, the early adapters get screwed over yet again.

Seriously, I like their product enough to buy it on release and now they release a new version with a cool(?) poster so the people who didn't want to support the company earlier get rewarded. That's a shitty way to treat your customers IMO.

No they are releasing an add on. you still have to have bought the game so you are perfectly entitled to get this box.

I think he was meening early adopters of the expansions, which have been on live for quite some time as DLC

It's no different from waiting to buy a game after a few months, rather than getting it as soon as it's released. Those who wait are obviously going to get a better deal. I loved Fallout, but I'm more than willing to wait for a bundle that includes all the DLC as one.

Dude, its a poster.

You got to be the first to play the content, how is this screwing anybody over by arriving months later (ooh a few months) on a shelf?

They're just going to release a new pack when all three are out. I plan on waiting till I can get it cheap used (like I did for Shivering Isles).

So is it a actual disc or is it like the retail GTA Lost and the Damned with a download card and poster in a box?

I imagine people will buy it, install it to their hard drive then return it for a full refund claming it was an unwanted present or they didn't have fallout 3 to play it on.

That'd be kinda stupid as it'll be locked to your live account

I know of no retailer around here that will take an opened game... unless it is different elsewhere.

Most of the games retailers I have dealt with on returns will only exchange an open product for the same product (like if the first disc fails to read or something).

http://ww4.zmart.cl/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=8423

Here's a link to a spanish online retailer selling another expansion pack, like the above poster mentioned, dated June 15th. Including Broken Steel and another expansion not yet announced called Point Lookout.
I'm sure you'll be able to install these onto your harddrive, like Oblivion GOTY, if you don't have access to Xbox Live.

Eep.

The trend continues.

That is all.

BJ

This looks like a download card and not a disc. It even has the orange bar at the top just like the GTA lost and damned download card at retail.

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