Whats the advantages to buying a ps3 game that has downloadable content?

Answer 1

The primary advantage is game extendability - with a game without DLC, you get bored playing the same maps/battles, etc. pretty quickly - after about 2 months. However, with new DLC maps and content, it adds new life to the game for usually only 5 or 10 bucks. This feature alone has kept many game players playing certain game titles (Call of Duty, Killzone, etc.) for a lot longer than they would normally have been played had new content not been made available.

For example, Call of Duty 5 (World at War) just released its 3rd map pack last week, breathing more life into an already cool game. By comparison, COD 4 only released one map pack - that got boring pretty fast. The community for COD5 is still pretty strong, but few who were in the original community who played COD4 play it now.

In the end, it's how much you can get for your game dollar. If you can play a game a lot longer for a couple of extra bucks, it makes the initial cost worth it -especially if you got it at GameStop for a discount to begin with.