Nothing gets me in the mood for a little retro post-apocalyptic science fiction action-adventure like a little operatic chanting. It worked for the original Star Trek series, and it sure as hell works here. The trailer gives us a glimpse of some of the new toys and outfits we'll get to play with in Mothership Zeta, as whoever we've deemed hero of humanity journeys unwillingly into outer space to save the human race from whatever it is those aliens want to do with us. I'm expecting a vicious probing, but then that's what I always expect.

I've got to hand it to Bethesda. These three screens are certainly unlike anything I ever expected to see in Fallout 3. That Oblivion engine sure is versatile, depicting the not-so-deep depths of space as readily as it does the ruined streets of Washington D.C. or the vast plains of Cyrodiil. It almost makes me want the company to take a stab at a space opera setting. A first-person Mass Effect-style title perhaps? I'd buy it. Hell, I'd buy it, get bored, trade it in, and then buy it again a month later.

Mothership Zeta will be released on August 3rd for the Xbox 360 and PC.

Well, not exactly the icy depths. Players find themselves trapped in an alien spaceship orbiting the Earth, and must band together with characters from the Wasteland and Earth's past in order to escape what is sure to be a vicious probing. Alien technology like the Alien Atomizer, Alien Disintegrator, and Drone Cannon make your task a little easier, while you can use the Gemini-Era Spacesuit and Samurai Armor to protect yourself from the alien hordes.

It looks like Bethesda is going out with a bang in this fifth and final installment of Fallout 3 DLC, but is this really the end? Pete Hines leaves us with a little wiggle room.

"Never say never, I suppose, but this was always the last one we had planned to do."

Mothership Zeta drops Monday, August 3rd on Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live for 800 points.

The first downloadable content will now be Broken Steel, not the promised Operation: Anchorage, in September. Worse news, Bethesda says they're "hoping" that it will be by "the end of September." That's a lot of qualifiers.

When it hits, the Broken Steel expansion will raise the game's level cap to 30 and extend the adventure past the original storyline.

Next in the line-up will be Operation: Anchorage, initially set for a June release, followed by The Pitt shortly thereafter "probably at the same time." After that Bethesda will be releasing Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta

This further extended delay is a bitter pill to take for Playstation 3 owners, but at least now they have a date.

Fallout 3 Downloadable Content on PSN