i am so mad that this is 360 exclusive because iirc it originally was gonna be on ps3 too >
you probably aren't missing out too much. like i said, the dlc has some outstanding characters, but a lot of other flaws that get in the way of it being a particularly worthwhile experience. nobody out there is calling this some CAN'T MISS GAMING or anything. the positives outweigh the negatives, but only slightly. there's a lot of junk time in there.
also it's really difficult compared to the rest of fallout. i probably died more times in dead money than i did in all three of my new vegas playthroughs combined, one of which was hardcore mode. i totally had a VVVVVV experience in two of the rooms(back to back), where i died about twenty times each. i never found fallout particularly frustrating, but this game did a pretty good job of touching the outer limits of what i can tolerate in a game without smashing things in my general vicinity.
is this the only dlc that's going to be xbox exclusive though? the way they handled this one on the basic level(interesting characters, new gameplay dynamics, vastly different locations and atmosphere) makes me think that at least one of these dlcs is going to be genuinely outstanding if they keep at it, since they approached it the right way more or less. the fallout 3 dlcs were still really in-line with what happened in the rest of fallout, but dead money was fundamentally different from anything else in new vegas, and the freshness of the new approach was what made the dlc as good as it was, even if the content itself was fairly shoddy for the most part. the rest of the dlcs might get pretty interesting if they keep breaking genres like this and trying new stuff out. kinda validates the whole idea of dlc, since it's not just an expanded map but a genuinely new experience relative to but not irrevocably linked to the original. feels more like dropping your fallout avatar into a new game rather than just expanding the original. even with the failures of the game, this was a great idea, and i hope the others follow suit to some extent.