Operation Anchorage
I'd like to make a list of the worst companions your forced to drag along in a video game. I think Sergeant Benjamin "Benji" Montgomery would come in somewhere near the top. He's completely invincible, sure, but he never actually does anything. As I, the the nineteen year old former vault dwelling girl went around winning a war my companion, and his strike force, served one of two purposes, standing around or dieing. I think I lost count of how many times Benjamin sat and indifferently watched me die. In the end I just left him behind and won the war on my own.
The content itself is solid, if not frustratingly buggy near the end. You end up fighting a general which was disappointingly easy. Once you shoot the weapon out of his hand you can sit and kill him with no effort.. Unless the game bugs as it often does and your own allies begin attacking you, and they have heavy weapons. The content was alright, it was nothing earth shattering but I didn't leave overly disappointing. It just didn't excite me that much and the rewards disappointed me.
The reward is access to an armory, which, had nothing of particular value. It made me filthy rich, but that's because all of the items were fairly useless. The power armor might have been nice if I actually used power armor, but with my lucky shades, three dog's headwrap, and ranger battle armor I don't care for power armor. I'm more of the sniper type, I go around with my Reservist Rifle, Ol' Painless, Lincoln's Repeater, a combat knife, and a vast array of explosives. If you do use power armor, I suppose it would be beneficial to do this up front right out of the vault because completion of the quest allows you to wear power armor immediately.
Let's move on to the new weapons, the Gauss Rifle and the Trench Knife. The Trench Knife sucks, I really hate that drastic simplification but the weapon doesn't deserve much explaining. It does less damage then the normal combat knives and if you have Stabhappy or Occam's Razor you have no reason to keep it. The Gauss Rifle is another weapon I found useless. The damage is nice but you have to reload after every single shot which makes it just as easy to take out my Lincoln's Repeater or my Reservist Rifle and do the job quicker. I suppose there is one more reward, the "Covert Ops" perk. It adds +3 to Lockpick, Science, and Sneak.. Yay?
I had to really think of if i'd suggest this or not, but in the end I decided despite all of the cons I actually had fun with the extra content. There is the added bonus for those of you who use power armor, and it is a very nice source of early caps, I think I made around two thousand from the armory and the resulting battle which I won't elaborate on due to spoilage.
Bring Down the Sky
I won't spend much time on this, because in a word, its bad. The content consists of one new planet really, you head to an Asteroid, disable the four fusion torches, and make a moral choice. There is also the added option of finding three dead scientists.
The promotional crap tells you "Bring Down the Sky includes a new uncharted world that introduces the notorious and feared alien race of the batarians. A batarian extremist group has hijacked a mobile asteroid station in the Asgard system, setting it on a collision course with the nearby colony world of Terra Nova. Only Commander Shepard can save the millions of innocent civilians before the asteroid completes its deadly descent. Bring Down the Sky contains approximately 90 minutes of heart-pounding action and a new Achievement worth 50 Gamerscore points."
Ninty minutes? Really? I could play the content while beating myself with a lead pipe and still be done long before that time limit. Its a pass, there just isn't enough to do to warrant paying for this. If it was released for free then sure, but its just not worth spending XBox Live points on and I regret that I payed for it.
I'd like to make a list of the worst companions your forced to drag along in a video game. I think Sergeant Benjamin "Benji" Montgomery would come in somewhere near the top. He's completely invincible, sure, but he never actually does anything. As I, the the nineteen year old former vault dwelling girl went around winning a war my companion, and his strike force, served one of two purposes, standing around or dieing. I think I lost count of how many times Benjamin sat and indifferently watched me die. In the end I just left him behind and won the war on my own.
The content itself is solid, if not frustratingly buggy near the end. You end up fighting a general which was disappointingly easy. Once you shoot the weapon out of his hand you can sit and kill him with no effort.. Unless the game bugs as it often does and your own allies begin attacking you, and they have heavy weapons. The content was alright, it was nothing earth shattering but I didn't leave overly disappointing. It just didn't excite me that much and the rewards disappointed me.
The reward is access to an armory, which, had nothing of particular value. It made me filthy rich, but that's because all of the items were fairly useless. The power armor might have been nice if I actually used power armor, but with my lucky shades, three dog's headwrap, and ranger battle armor I don't care for power armor. I'm more of the sniper type, I go around with my Reservist Rifle, Ol' Painless, Lincoln's Repeater, a combat knife, and a vast array of explosives. If you do use power armor, I suppose it would be beneficial to do this up front right out of the vault because completion of the quest allows you to wear power armor immediately.
Let's move on to the new weapons, the Gauss Rifle and the Trench Knife. The Trench Knife sucks, I really hate that drastic simplification but the weapon doesn't deserve much explaining. It does less damage then the normal combat knives and if you have Stabhappy or Occam's Razor you have no reason to keep it. The Gauss Rifle is another weapon I found useless. The damage is nice but you have to reload after every single shot which makes it just as easy to take out my Lincoln's Repeater or my Reservist Rifle and do the job quicker. I suppose there is one more reward, the "Covert Ops" perk. It adds +3 to Lockpick, Science, and Sneak.. Yay?
I had to really think of if i'd suggest this or not, but in the end I decided despite all of the cons I actually had fun with the extra content. There is the added bonus for those of you who use power armor, and it is a very nice source of early caps, I think I made around two thousand from the armory and the resulting battle which I won't elaborate on due to spoilage.
Bring Down the Sky
I won't spend much time on this, because in a word, its bad. The content consists of one new planet really, you head to an Asteroid, disable the four fusion torches, and make a moral choice. There is also the added option of finding three dead scientists.
The promotional crap tells you "Bring Down the Sky includes a new uncharted world that introduces the notorious and feared alien race of the batarians. A batarian extremist group has hijacked a mobile asteroid station in the Asgard system, setting it on a collision course with the nearby colony world of Terra Nova. Only Commander Shepard can save the millions of innocent civilians before the asteroid completes its deadly descent. Bring Down the Sky contains approximately 90 minutes of heart-pounding action and a new Achievement worth 50 Gamerscore points."
Ninty minutes? Really? I could play the content while beating myself with a lead pipe and still be done long before that time limit. Its a pass, there just isn't enough to do to warrant paying for this. If it was released for free then sure, but its just not worth spending XBox Live points on and I regret that I payed for it.
