Fallout 3 ‘The Pitt’ expansion available on Xbox Live

Bethesda’s second expansion for Fallout 3, The Pitt, is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 Microsoft Points. On the surface, the downloadable content offers new weapons (AutoAxe, ftw!) and a new, rusty area to explore.

Unlike the last expansion, ‘Operation: Anchorage,’ The Pitt is based in reality. No more disappearing bodies, folks. You’ll be able resume your typical looting behaviors and grab anything you want as you progress. However, like the last go-around, you’ll be stripped of your end game inventory and confined to the content. Also, as I understand it, another phantom radio signal will give you the mission needed to start the expansion.

My Xbox 360 is humming in the background, eating my bandwidth and sucking my patience. I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to jump back into Fallout 3 since I completed the previous DLC. I’m sure many of you have been as well. Are you going to download this today?

[Update: Ruh, roh. Before you download, you might want to read this. Players are reporting problems.]

[via Major Nelson]