Mass Effect - Bring Down the Sky

I’m not sure how I missed this news when it first came out a month or so ago. Mass Effect, one of my favorite Xbox 360 games of all time now had a downloadable expansion pack called Bring Down the Sky. I just found out about it today as I was reading Penny Arcade. It includes about 90 minutes of gameplay and introduces a new race to the Mass Effect universe; the Batarians. All of this for 400 points (or 5 dollars).

According to the Mass Effect website, the plot for this expansion is as follows: “A batarian extremist group has hijacked a mobile asteroid station and set it on a collision course with Terra Nova. Only you can save millions of civilians before the asteroid completes its deadly descent.”

Now there is a catch, as Tycho from Penny Arcade writes: “The trouble with this content is that it can’t really be enjoyed by people who have beaten the game. I could go back, certainly, to some previous save, but unless I wanted to move on from there and beat the game again I’d lose anything I had earned in it.”

That seems a little short-sighted on the part of BioWare, but I’ve been itching to play the game again (and pick the baddest, biggest jerk in the universe this time) and this gives me an excuse to do just that.