Friday 22 May 2009

Fallout 3 Vs Trade-Ins

At the moment the game industry is in a massive war with trade-in's; where a game is bought, completed, and then traded in.

I don't like reviewing games until i have fully completed them, but Fallout 3 just keeps giving and giving, i don't think i will ever get to review it. With two more downloadable content packages announced for the end of June and end of July. It looks to be like there will be many more hours of gaming within the Fallout universe, making Fallout 3 the longest game i have EVER played, i certainly don't plan on trading it in.


I'm at about 70 hours of gameplay now after completing the first two sets of downloadable content and being half way through the third. However, each downloadable extension pack costs 800 Microsoft points which works out at about £6.80. So for the complete set of downloadable content it will cost £34, this is about the price the game costs in the first place, so it's like buying a new game! Some would argue that we, the consumers, are being manipulated to buy game add on after game add on, but in the game makers’ defence, it's a good way to counter the constant war that game makers’ have with trade-ins.

With the last set of downloadable content due out about nine months after the initial release of the game; Fallout 3 might just have found the secret to end the trade-in war and may just be that game that you don’t trade in!


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