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Fallout: New Vegas senior designer Chris Avellone has revealed new info about upcoming DLC, Dead Money.
The new content is set in the Sierra Madre, an extravagant resort that was supposed to be the greatest casino in the west – except that it never opened. Bombs fell before the gala opening, and the Sierra Madre froze in time, its state of the art security system locking the place up tight.
“Years passed. The climate control and air conditioning system within the facility began to spit toxins into the surrounding city, causing a slow cloud and haze to form over the area – which proved lethal to anyone who tried to explore the city,” said Avellone. “Only a mysterious group called the Ghost People survived to call the city home, trapped inside what appeared to be hazmat suits and never speaking to their victims… only capturing them alive and dragging them away to the depths of the city deep within the Cloud.
“And so the Sierra Madre faded from the history books, only occasionally being seen in posters across the wastes, until it took on mythic ghost story status… a supposed “City of Gold” in the Mojave Wasteland where all the treasures of the Old World were rumoured to be held. It was kept alive as a late-night saloon story by prospectors who’d claimed to have found maps leading there… and were willing to part with the “map” for a few caps. Or a drink. Or a warm place to sleep.”
The new area will be accessed via a radio broadcast once you load a save file from any point in Fallout: New Vegas prior to the endgame sequence.
Players will work alongside three other captured wastelanders to recover the legendary treasure of the Sierra Madre Casino.
Fallout: New Vegas Dead Money DLC will be released December 21, exclusively for Xbox 360.
As we’ve said before, the late December release date should come at a time when gamers are waiting for the next game to come along, providing the perfect tonic to the pre-Christmas release slump.
