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Mass Effect 2's Arrival DLC Dated, Priced, And Detailed

It's Arriving this month! Yeah, sorry.

It’s official: the final bit of Mass Effect 2 DLC, “Arrival” is a real and true paid add-on for the lauded sci-fi RPG. Publisher EA confirmed Arrival this morning, announcing that it’ll be available this March 29 across the PC, Xbox 360 and PSN. It’ll retail for the price of 560 Moon Dollars across the former two platforms and 7 dollars in Earth currency on PSN.

Did the rumors happen to peg what you’ll be doing in Arrival? Maybe. This morning’s press release teases that Arrival will take Shepard to the “edge of the galaxy” in order to aid an operative who has evidence of an impending Reaper invasion. Leaks suggest that you’ll be travelling to the Viper Nebula and meeting up with the Batarian Hegemony, an organization that has beef with the Alliance.   
 

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== TEASER ==Admiral Hackett, voiced by Alien's Lance Henriksen, will play a “prominent role” in Arrival, which appears on paper, at least, to be that long-awaited bridge content that will seek to connect the events of Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3

“Mass Effect: Arrival is an exciting extension to Mass Effect 2 and will show players just how close the Reapers are to returning and completing their deadly harvest,” Mass Effect lead producer Casey Hudson said in a written statement.

A few new images have appeared since our update yesterday, two of which are from today’s reveal. The third image, just below, is another teaser that BioWare pushed out after receiving the impressions it needed from the second Arrival image. 
 

    
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Needless to say, but I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl about Arrival. Will you be checking it out, too?

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Is that Admiral Hackett? 
 
The man behind the voice is sexier than I expected.

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FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 
This is good reason enough for me to finally get my lazy butt off the chair and get my xbox fixed

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I was considering replaying Mass Effect 2. This just cements my decision.

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Whoo! Time to play all of the DLC I already have, but haven't tried yet.

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Ooh, exciting. :D I hope it's as good, if not better than, the Shadow Broker DLC. No matter what happens I will of course be buying it anyway, even if it's not right away.

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He'll yeah!

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So, when does this happen in the story?  Before or after the final mission? 

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I'm pretty damn stoked about this.

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@Rxanadu said:
" So, when does this happen in the story?  Before or after the final mission?  "
I'm guessing after, so I hope your Shepard survived. 
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@Rxanadu said:
" So, when does this happen in the story?  Before or after the final mission?  "
Obviously after, since it's pegged to tie into ME3 with the beginning of the Reaper Invasion, or at least giving us a strong estimate as to when they'll arrive. If it's anything like the Liar of the Shadow Broker, though, it'll still allow you to play it before you undertake the suicide mission, and would most likely offer some dialogue alterations. 
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I'm still waiting for an ultimate edition of ME2 with all the DLC to come out. Hopefully with Arrival being out in a couple of weeks it'll be next out the pipeline.

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MASS EFFEEEEEEEEECCCCCCTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don't have much faith that the gameplay will be anything special but thats not why im buying it.

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Yaaahhh more Mass Effect! I bought Shadow Broker a while back but don't have access to my copy of Mass Effect so I'm looking forward to playing both!

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Admiral Hackett!

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Bioware seem to get how much new DLC should cost, other companies would want 800MSP from us, so this's cool. 
 
And I'm looking forward to this!

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@General_D23 said:

" Hackett looks eerily similar to Zaeed. Weird. "

Yeah, the hell up with that. I don't remember Hackett looking like that at all in the first game. 
 
EDIT: wait, no, I'm thinking of  Mikhailovich. The guy who inspects your ship.  
Anyway... 
 Hm...
 Hm...
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I'll be having my way with this on insanity.  If this is the bridge between 2 and 3 that's gonna be a horrible wait.
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Glad to see Admiral Hackett as an actual character now.

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I want soo bad!

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Ultimate Edition please

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Is that guy Hackett? if so then it's about damn time we saw the guy's face.

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Oh man I think Im burned out on ME2, but I will probably pick it up eventually as ME3 draws closer I guess.

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Goddamn I can't wait, looks like I'll just finish Dragon Age II and then it'll be straight into Mass Effect 2 for DLC/yet another playthrough.

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ugh, I hate story focused DLC cause I can't buy it.

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Been waiting for this DLC for months.

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@Rawrnosaurous said:
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Well priced DLC means day one purchase.
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Batarians!!?
Aww fuck! I want it!

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Yeah, great news.

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so everybody feels revenge against Batarians? why do you hate? anyway, it's too early to tell that 'Arrival' DLC is the final. Bioware said that they will deliver 3 more DLC before ME 3 in 2011. so far we've got two (including Arrival). very last one will be coming september or october I guess. but nobody knows whether it will be story based or just package. I just finger cross. 

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Bridging the gap between 2 and 3?
 
Well, shit. Now I have to buy it!

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Hyped!

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Can't fraking wait!!!! 
 
Oh and is that Admiral Hackett in the flesh in that last screenshot?   
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@papercut said:
"@General_D23 said:

" Hackett looks eerily similar to Zaeed. Weird. "

Yeah, the hell up with that. I don't remember Hackett looking like that at all in the first game. 
 
EDIT: wait, no, I'm thinking of  Mikhailovich. The guy who inspects your ship.  
Anyway..." 
 
All "old" characters look pretty similar in this game, it's the graphics engine i think. 
  
 
THIS is Admiral Mikhailovich.  I'm pretty sure the guy in Arival is Hackett. 
 
 
 
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Im gonna pick this up and Crysis 2! BEST MONTH EVER!! :)

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so can i has my GOTY  ed. with alll the dlc yet?????

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-Hackett Out
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Admiral Hackett? Awesome! Missed him since the first one.

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will buy

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I feel extremely bad for asking this, since I played and loved the first game (even played it twice), but who's Admiral Hackett again?

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@Bobstar said:
" I feel extremely bad for asking this, since I played and loved the first game (even played it twice), but who's Admiral Hackett again? "
Awesomely gruff Alliance Admiral who hands you a lot of the many side quests in the original Mass Effect, voiced by Lance Henrikson. You never saw him, though, and was only known through voice until now.
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@Abyssfull said:
" @Bobstar said:
" I feel extremely bad for asking this, since I played and loved the first game (even played it twice), but who's Admiral Hackett again? "
Awesomely gruff Alliance Admiral who hands you a lot of the many side quests in the original Mass Effect, voiced by Lance Henrikson. You never saw him, though, and was only known through voice until now. "
Oh, well that explains it. Didn't really bother to check or do any of the side-quests in ME1. All of that changed in ME2 though.
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@Bobstar said:
" @Abyssfull said:
" @Bobstar said:
" I feel extremely bad for asking this, since I played and loved the first game (even played it twice), but who's Admiral Hackett again? "
Awesomely gruff Alliance Admiral who hands you a lot of the many side quests in the original Mass Effect, voiced by Lance Henrikson. You never saw him, though, and was only known through voice until now. "
Oh, well that explains it. Didn't really bother to check or do any of the side-quests in ME1. All of that changed in ME2 though. "
He was still involved in the main story, mind you. He was the Alliance guy giving the orders during the aerial assault against Sovereign.
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@Abyssfull said:
" @Bobstar said:
" @Abyssfull said:
" @Bobstar said:
" I feel extremely bad for asking this, since I played and loved the first game (even played it twice), but who's Admiral Hackett again? "
Awesomely gruff Alliance Admiral who hands you a lot of the many side quests in the original Mass Effect, voiced by Lance Henrikson. You never saw him, though, and was only known through voice until now. "
Oh, well that explains it. Didn't really bother to check or do any of the side-quests in ME1. All of that changed in ME2 though. "
He was still involved in the main story, mind you. He was the Alliance guy giving the orders during the aerial assault against Sovereign. "
All of this talk totally makes me wanna boot up and play ME1 again!
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So excited!

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I cannot wait for this, i just finished dragon age 2 and all the mass effect 2 DLC this month so new mass effect stuff will keep me going

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:D 
 Moar Mass Effect 2 cant be bad

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@Bobstar said:
" @Abyssfull said:
" @Bobstar said:
" I feel extremely bad for asking this, since I played and loved the first game (even played it twice), but who's Admiral Hackett again? "
Awesomely gruff Alliance Admiral who hands you a lot of the many side quests in the original Mass Effect, voiced by Lance Henrikson. You never saw him, though, and was only known through voice until now. "
Oh, well that explains it. Didn't really bother to check or do any of the side-quests in ME1. All of that changed in ME2 though. "


He's also one of the first voices you hear in the beginning of the game.  Having an off-screen conversation with Anderson and Udina.