Mothership Zeta is perhaps the most random of the Fallout 3 Downloads, set as it is entirely on an alien spacecraft where you have been taken for experimentation!

Wanderers across The Capital Wasteland in the main Fallout 3 game may have come across a crashed alien spacecraft during the course of their gameplay and wondered how it got there. Well, with this Download, wonder no more.....for no sooner have you stumbled back across this crash site, drawn there by mysterious Radio signals, then you are beamed aboard The Mothership.

You awake in a cell with another fellow prisoner and it is not long before you are hatching an escape plan. Temporarily free, you both set out to explore the ship, coming across other prisoners as you do so that include a samurai, a cowboy and a guard from Rivet City who just stands there mumbling to herself "This can't be happening....!" Yeah, thanks for the help Love, obviously it is happening so just get over it already!!

The aliens running things are pretty formiddable. Looking exactly like your stereotypical "Greys" that appear in all good abduction fantasies, they come armed to the teeth with Atomisers and Disintegration Rays that beat your more conventional weapons hands down. Though you can regain your equipment pretty early on this DLC, it won't do you much good and the sooner you can arm yourself with their technology the better. Your armour too likewise does little against their weaponry so keep your w=eye out for glowing archways that can be used to restore health because Stimpacks here are entirely out of stock!

There is quite a bit to explore on the ship including cargo bays and research labs and all in all, this DLC is just a lot of fun! On your explorations, look out especially for various livestock, killer toy ponies that the aliens are intending to send down to the surface as weapons and other bizarre experiments that are best not looked at too closely!

The main storyline here deals with your escape and provides the only downside in the need felt to include an annoying little girl as your side-kick that brings back awful memories of Resident Evil 2 and the annoying brat who accpmpanied you there! There will be times when you wish you could just blast the little sprog but unfortunately this is not an avenue open to you.....

The DLC isn't that long but does provide a few extra novelty hours of gameplay. You can't take it too seriously but then I don't think you are intended to! Certainly the whole thing follows closely themes and designs from the main game with everything having a very '50's feel to it. But it probably isn't worth buying seperately but rather as part of The Game Of The Year Edition which gives you all 5 DLC!

Certainly it is almost as good as Point Lookout, the only other truly worthwhile DLC so far for Fallout 3. Does it add much in terms of content? Well, the new weapons definitely come in useful back in the main game!

With only Broken Steel left for me to play in the 5 Fallout 3 DLC's, this rates very highly and is a lotta lotta fun! Reminiscent of Silent Hill's Alien Encounters, these levels are about as serious and should only be played with those with an open mind. Because remember you guys, the Truth IS out there........