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Enter The Lair Of Mass Effect 2's Shadow Broker

Here's a taste of the biggest and possibly best ME2 DLC to date.

Sep. 14 2010

Posted by: Brad

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Mass Effect 2

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Yay

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Moar ME2

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Edited By PhatSeeJay

That DLC was the best one to date. More DLC with stories closer tied to Shepard!

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Balls.

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Awesome!

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Can't wait until I play this.

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Edited By Genjai

I got it last tuesday, and my wife played through it first. She didn't spoil it for me, but she said it was awesome - especially the conclusion. I'm looking forward to it :^)

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Edited By JauntyHat

If this were an after-school special, the shadow broker would pay a bitter price!

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Edited By TerraDelu

Yeah, and it will affect ME3, so, doubly awesome.

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Got all the DLC at once and starting cranking on it last weekend. Sweet jesus I forgot how effing amazing that game is. It's seriously like playing a season of an incredible sci-fi show. Can't wait for ME3.

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cool stuff

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Edited By baron_calamity

Why is Shepard a guy? That is just wrong. 
 
Anyways, none of the DLC make me want to play the game again. I finished Mass Effect 2 months ago. Unless the DLC is built as a completely seperate new adventure that happens after the events in ME2, I have no interest.
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This DLC was amazing, by far the best so far.

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Edited By Sergotron

So good. If you are just going to download 1 piece of DLC for Mass Effect 2, this has to be it.

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I bought it, but started a new playthrough so I am not able to do this DLC just yet. Really looking forward to it though!

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Edited By uberexplodey

No quicklook?

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ME2 needs classed based multiplayer.

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@UberExplodey said:
" No quicklook? "
Hopefully. This looks really cool.
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lol way to be on time with that bitch i already beat that shit already :P

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Edited By eloj

I still need a retail all-DLC-disc at a nice price in order to enjoy this.

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@jASPWN said:
"ME2 needs classed based multiplayer. "

If there is one thing a Single player rpg needs, is team base multiplayer action.
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Going to play it tonight

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Edited By alwaysbeclothing

Of all the dlc, definitely the one I enjoyed the most.  Its worth the price, because it builds on the experience you're crafting since ME1. 

@UberExplodey: I'm hoping Ryan, Brad, Or Vinny puts one out, but there's so much to cover they will show such a small part of it.

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@UberExplodey said:
"No quicklook? "

If it is anything like the other ME2 DLC, it will be over faster than a Gameroom quicklook of an Intellivision game.
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Is he looking at her titties?

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@baron_calamity: Canon Shepard is male. Deal with it.
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@baron_calamity said:
" Why is Shepard a guy? That is just wrong. "
couldn't agree more. 
 
i wish they would just give this away for free or something. i have absolutely no money but fuck, this looks good.
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@tumes said:
" Got all the DLC at once and starting cranking on it last weekend. Sweet jesus I forgot how effing amazing that game is. It's seriously like playing a season of an incredible sci-fi show. Can't wait for ME3. "
I did the same thing, along with reading the books. The Mass Effect universe is pretty much amazing. 
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Edited By LoktarOgar

Sooo... this will be included with the PS3 version, right? Or was that just the dlc that had been released up to the point of its announcement?

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Edited By papercut

Been there, done that. Awesome DLC. The ME2 DLC has been getting better as they go along. 

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Edited By Floppypants

While the previous DLC was good, this one is amazing.  It's easily worth $10.  While I finished the main game on Insanity back in February, this DLC really re-immersed me and got me to start a new game with a new class.  I canceled my Halo Reach preorder because I'm having so much fun just playing ME2 all over again.

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@AlwaysBeClothing: I've played through it and enjoyed this thoroughly several times over, so I'm just more interested in what they think about it.   
Also, I'd want to see Brad "pull a Brad" in the driving minigame. 
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@jASPWN said:
" ME2 needs classed based multiplayer. "
Please Bioware, don't listen to this man(?)!
 
There are enough games with non-popular multiplayer portions, just focus on excellent single player content. If you really, really need to do something with multiplayer, make it so you can play through the campaign as a 3 player coop.
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Edited By 234r2we232

Wow. That dialogue all sounds so... wooden. Is all of ME2 like this?

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I thought Asari lived centuries. How the hell did she age so badly in two years? From chubby-cheeked nerd to slim bitchy lawyer in two years.

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@baron_calamity said:
Unless the DLC is built as a completely seperate new adventure that happens after the events in ME2, I have no interest. "
Um... all the dlc can be played during or after the main story.  That's what makes it awesome, no matter which dlc you buy it can be played/used when and how you want. 
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@sofacitysweetheart said:

" Wow. That dialogue all sounds so... wooden. Is all of ME2 like this? "

it's not the dialogue, it's shepard's male voice actor. with all due respect to the guy, he's not that great. comes off as kind of stiff and generally just an uncomfortable guy. jennifer hale, however (she voices female shepard), does a pretty remarkable job.
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Good DLC, although a little too short for a price of 800 points.

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Fantastic DLC. Worth the whatever-they-charged price. Loads of action, funny dialogue, nostalgic comments and some great information to be read and learned. Top notch.

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QUICK LOOK!

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Definitely the best piece of DLC so far.

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@EOT said:
" @baron_calamity: Canon Shepard is male. Deal with it."

Canon sometimes sucks. See Star Wars. Actually my problem with Male Shepard is the voice actor. He is so terrible. He sounds like some freshman reading slowly text he hasn't seen before with no emotion. That would be a DLC I could get behind. A replacement for the male Shepard's voice.
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@sofacitysweetheart said:
"Wow. That dialogue all sounds so... wooden. Is all of ME2 like this? "

That is just the voice of the male Shepard. Seriously, I'm not joking. Go onto you tube and look for comparison videos. Its amazing how much better the voice actress is for the woman Shepard.
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@baron_calamity said:

" Why is Shepard a guy? That is just wrong.  Anyways, none of the DLC make me want to play the game again. I finished Mass Effect 2 months ago. Unless the DLC is built as a completely seperate new adventure that happens after the events in ME2, I have no interest. "

That is exactly what this is. 
 
"The DLC can be played during the game or after the suicide mission, but the dialogue is "weighted heavily toward the assumption that the player had already completed it."

Plus this is the first of the planned DLC to close the gap between ME2 and ME3 so the decisions made in this will carry over to ME3.
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@David said:
" @baron_calamity said:

" Why is Shepard a guy? That is just wrong.  Anyways, none of the DLC make me want to play the game again. I finished Mass Effect 2 months ago. Unless the DLC is built as a completely seperate new adventure that happens after the events in ME2, I have no interest. "

That is exactly what this is.   "The DLC can be played during the game or after the suicide mission, but the dialogue is "weighted heavily toward the assumption that the player had already completed it."Plus this is the first of the planned DLC to close the gap between ME2 and ME3 so the decisions made in this will carry over to ME3. "

Ah, that is good to known. I'll check it out then. The other DLC might as well not happen.
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I'm SO getting this!

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Still waiting for that all in one GotY ME2 pack ON STEAM.

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at 0.45 looks like a you'll be flying

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Ewww Mass Effect 2.

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I really loved this DLC. Mass Effect is the gift that keeps on giving