Played Mass Effect Expansion Pack: Bring Down The Sky
“Bring Down The Sky”, the expansion content for Mass Effect, was good for a few hours of new gameplay. It starts as soon as you get aboard the Normandy and head out into space from the “Citadel”. Once you investigate a new asteroid on the “Stellar Map”, you are treated to a nice cutscene (one of many in the new content) of the rock hurtling towards Terra Nova, and its millions of human citizens, powered by three huge thrusters. The antagonists, Batarians, are evil slavers that kill people for fun and profit. It might have been wiser to hold off on this mission until I had built up some experience and better gear, but I dove straight in anyway.
It turns out that there are human survivors from the science team on the asteroid. One of them talks me through the mission by radio, until the Batarians find her hiding spot. There is plenty to do on the asteroid, but I got saving people to do! The bulk of the new content is driving the Mako to each of the three thrusters and disabling them. The installations are the same throughout the galaxy, so nothing new there. At the last thruster, I am confronted by the Batarian lieutenant. I used the “Charm” skill on him to negotiate rather than killing him outright because I’m playing a good guy. It was surprisingly easy to convince to give up his superior to save his own butt.
The problem with playing as a “Paragon” is that sometimes you would rather knock off the bad guy. He’s really really evil; he deserves it! Batarians suck, and they sick Varren monster-dogs on you! But because my character is “Lawful Good”, I let the lieutenant and his two sidekicks go, with his blessing to kill his boss. Once I catch up to the Boss, after killing countless Batarians in his base, he wants to talk. Of course. It seems that he has planted bombs all over the place, right near his human hostages. Mass Effect is all about moral crossroads: I can kill him (let the scientists die) or let him go (run to defuse the bombs). Good guys defuse bombs.
I’d like to know what happens when you decide to chase after the Batarian leader instead. But in this case, since they all lived to talk about the event, one of the hostages gives me a choice of rewards: light/medium/heavy human armor, Quarian armor, or a tech tool. I’m playing a tech/soldier, so I chose the tech tool, and it’s easily the best one in the game (and I got it right in the beginning!). Overall, “Bring Down The Sky” is pretty nice for a freebie. Although a goodly chunk of it is “more of the same”, Bioware managed to introduce a new race, provide more rich background story, and provide a good couple of hours of new gameplay.
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