It's that time of year again. You've got tons of time off, but because you're such a diligent, obsessive gamer, you managed to play through all the new holiday season games over the last few weeks and now you're stuck with nothing. Actually, that's not quite true, this year. As DLC becomes a bigger part of the game release schedule, companies are doing a better job planning ahead, releasing more content before the game starts getting stale. Case in point, two pretty high profile DLC packs which launched today: "Dead Money" for "Fallout: New Vegas" and the Vietnam expansion for "Battlefield: Bad Company 2."
"Dead Money" follows previous Fallout expansions in that it offers new weapons, new missions and new, horrible mutants to dismember. This time you're tasked with knocking over a casino. In the parlance of 1950s, swingin' gangsters, "knocking over" means "robbing." Expect around 3 to 4 hours of gameplay in this romp through the mysterious Sierra Madre casino. "Dead Money" is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and will run players 800 MS points.
The Vietnam expansion for "Battlefield: Bad Company 2," on the other hand, is the first pack to add new maps to the game since it launched (so long as you don't count reworked maps from the original "Bad Company"). Four new maps have been added, complete with Vietnam-era weapons and vehicles. A fifth map will unlock once 69,000,000 teamwork actions have been completed across the game's many servers. Costing $15, the Vietnam expansion released on PC last week and arrived on PSN and Xbox Live today.
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