[gorgon]

I beat it already a few days ago but what do u guys think of it?

[mastab]

Haven't played it, but I heard it was good. I'll either get it in a few weeks or wait for that cool brotherhood of steel one to come out.

[Emperor Brutus]

Whats the general story behind it? Another simulation?

[mastab]

Emperor Brutus, on Mar 28 2009, 12:24 PM, said:

Whats the general story behind it? Another simulation?

You go undercover as a gladiator-slave-thing in Pittsburgh where a warlord is rumored to have developed a cure to mutations.

[Alicia]

I will consider getting the DLC when I can get a physical copy on a disk and I don't have to use Live and MS points.

[Esau of Isaac]

It is better than Operation: Anchorage, but that's not saying much considering that the vast majority of O:A was un-fun, and the best part of the entire thing was getting into the armory and then

Spoiler

taking everything and killing all of the Outcast Brotherhood guys to have wicked upgrades

The general gist is that a man named Werhner has escaped; his people have been enslaved by a man named Ashur, and they are being worked from morning 'till night, given horrible living conditions, and killed at a moment's notice for any reason whatsoever. He enlists your help to recover his people from captivity, and defeat Ashur and his men.

Spoiler

This doesn't go so well, since you end up losing all of your equipment when you are beaten unconscious by one of Ashur's men. They take every single one of your items, and leave you in slave rags on the ground. You are then sent on a fetch quest for ten steel ingots to make it appear as though you are not in the area to stir up trouble by one of Werhner's contacts. Afterwards, you are then entered into the Pitt's Arena to battle for freedom, and to meet Ashur. He posseses a cure for a disease that drives one of every five incurably insane, and generally deforms everyone.

The arena's quirk is that you are battling against enemies while radiation barrels are dropped, meaning you have to defeat them before you are killed by the radiation itself. It's simple, and there are only about five fights total, but it's a fun series of fights, even if the hardest of them lasts for an upwards of twelve seconds. Anyways, afterwards you recover all your gear and head off to Uptown (a better equipped area where more of Ashur's men reside) to meet and speak with Ashur. When you arrive, he guesses that you had been sent from the Capital Wasteland to overthrow him, and states that Werhner was not a slave, but his right-hand man, and is in fact lying to you. He then leaves to address the problem of slave revolution.

It is at this time that you find the cure is actually a small baby, Ashur's child. His wife explains that she is perfectly safe, and they have the scientific know-how to bring together a cure within time. The choice here is obvious; steal a child to give to Werhner to assist in the slave revolt, or let her mother keep her to take care of her and develop the cure safely. Afterwards, !@#$ hits the fan, and Werhner tells you to shut off the floodlights to Uptown so that the Trogs, those that have been deformed and driven completely bonkers from the sickness, can come charging in to kill all of Ashur's men. The plan goes off well, and the slaves end up receiving independence, with Werhner their leader. Or that is one of the decisions to make.

This post has been edited by Esau of Isaac: 29 March 2009 - 03:18 PM

[Aaron]

I found it funny how it was the same voice actor they used for the Arena in oblivion.

[Sylar]

so do you guys recommend it or no? i got O:A and thought it was alright is this way better and do you use your guy or some random person.

[Esau of Isaac]

Sylar, on Mar 29 2009, 08:28 PM, said:

so do you guys recommend it or no? i got O:A and thought it was alright is this way better and do you use your guy or some random person.

This is much better than Operation: Anchorage, though again that is not saying much, since Operation: Anchorage was tedious and (mostly) un-fun. The only things that validated it were the Winterized T-51b Power Armor, the Chinese Stealth Armor, and the Gauss Rifle.

The Pitt is fun in that it actually has a newer storyline. Granted, it lasts for the lesser part of three or four hours, but it's about what you would expect in terms of an arc of the game's story.

Notable new items, which is what everyone is really looking for, are the Auto Axe, the Iniltrator, the Man Opener, the Mauler, the Perforator, the Metal Blaster, Wild Bill's .32, Ashur's Power Armor, Filtration Helmet, and Tribal Power Armor.

I'd say it's worth the ten bucks.

[gorgon]

Esau of Isaac, on Mar 30 2009, 05:22 AM, said:

This is much better than Operation: Anchorage, though again that is not saying much, since Operation: Anchorage was tedious and (mostly) un-fun. The only things that validated it were the Winterized T-51b Power Armor, the Chinese Stealth Armor, and the Gauss Rifle.

The Pitt is fun in that it actually has a newer storyline. Granted, it lasts for the lesser part of three or four hours, but it's about what you would expect in terms of an arc of the game's story.

Notable new items, which is what everyone is really looking for, are the Auto Axe, the Iniltrator, the Man Opener, the Mauler, the Perforator, the Metal Blaster, Wild Bill's .32, Ashur's Power Armor, Filtration Helmet, and Tribal Power Armor.

I'd say it's worth the ten bucks.

finding the 100 steel ingots is a real bit** lol.

This post has been edited by gorgon: 30 March 2009 - 01:03 PM