More Mass Effect 2 DLC announced

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In one of the final announcements of the 2010 Game Developers’ Conference, BioWare has shown off the first piece of premium DLC for the high flying space odyssey Mass Effect 2 which is scheduled to hit your Xbox 360 and PC from next month.

Titled Kasumi’s Stolen Memory, this new DLC will introduce players to a 12th playable character, the master thief Kasumi.

Kasumi's Stolen Memory will feature a new mission which will roughly take you around an hour and a half to complete. We won't go into spoilerific detail with what the DLC will contain, but what we will tell you is that the mission will require you to undertake the most classic of spy scenarios - donning a disguise and go undercover during a formal party in order to extract an item.

The DLC will also contain a new weapon (swanky new SMGs for all), a new power (the ability to throw flashbangs all over the place) and a new area of the ship will be unlocked to house Kasumi. Kasumi also packs a special ability, the Shade Strike, will allows her to turn on her invisibility cloak and make a mad dash toward the enemy to take them by surprise with a powerful attack, a move which could prove to be pretty nifty.

So far no price or hard release date has been announced for the DLC. Players will be able to access the content once they have played enough of Mass Effect 2 to attain their own ship and/or after the completion of the main quest.

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11 Comments

Mr Waffle

3 years ago

I haven't even played my copy yet, every 5 minutes they're announcing new stuff for it so I don't want to miss out on anything... what happened to the old days of just giving us a game and that was it?!

sEiFeR

3 years ago

Do want

jesuslol

3 years ago

So her ability is a mix between infiltrator cloak and vanguard charge - sounds damn awesome.

Mr Waffle wrote

Everything announced so far is free so I don't know what you;re complaining about. This is the first one you will have to buy. And the majority of DLC will sell when people are still interested in the game, so near its release. You are not the target audience if you buy a game then wait months to play it.

emech

3 years ago

and yet more evidence amasses to cause the wise gamer to wait for a reduced price GOTY edition. Seriously...why get anything at launch anymore - you know more is coming (the exeption being multi-player focused titles which reuire critical mass to enjoy)

G3ck0

3 years ago

emech wrote

Uh, you realise all the DLC so far has been free, right?

Jim Dash

3 years ago

These people don't listen.

Will this mean you can have her with you from start to finish?

RichieT23

3 years ago

Keep it coming Bioware, and I will keep consuming it! GOTY.

matrix-cat

3 years ago

I'll buy whatever Bioware's selling, but from what I've read this Kasumi DLC is turning out awfully Zaeedish. There doesn't seem to be an actual recruitment mission, you just saunter up to her on the Citadel all "Hay, don't Collectors suck?", and you can't talk to her on the Normandy, she just comments when you click on stuff.

I do hope her loyalty mission is better than Zaeed's forgettable half hour jaunt. I would have felt pretty ripped off if I'd had to pay for him, even if it was only $5 or something. If Kasumi's mission turns out to be Bring Down the Sky-esque in length I'll be all over it, though.

Mr Waffle

3 years ago

jesuslol wrote

I'm not complaining, don't put words into my mouth. I'm saying that for a game that I'm wildly assuming is a long story-based game with a defined start and finish, it's frankly weird to add drips and drabs of content. Unless Mass Effect has gone GTA-style sandbox and you can go and pick up this stuff at any time, adding things in the middle of a story seems silly. Surely they should bundle it all up for an expansion after the story ends, which none of this stuff sounds like it is.

JackSlack

3 years ago

Now, I'm all up for an expansion if they do it right. (Mass Effect: The Liara Adventures? I'm all OVER that.)

But consider this. DLC is now a major part of the videogame market. Yes, most of this has been free, but we're now seeing the first paid bit. It won't be the last.

You're right, in a story based game like this, it's hard to see how DLC can work... but from a business standpoint, it has to be included. There may well be executives whose attitude is, "Well, if it can't work with this genre, maybe we shouldn't be making games in this genre anymore." This is a dilemma I don't want to see have to be wrestled with.

So you can bet I WILL be buying Kasumi on the day it comes out.

Plus, she's really cute.

Kyle Clarthy

3 years ago

I WISH I could be buying this the day it comes out ... My net account back at home has been closed. It was my choice, because it wasn't really financially beneficial paying for it when I was barely there. But now that I'm at my grandparents, I don't think I'd be able to download anything off the net here that large, and it's wireless, so I guess the Xbox won't be able to log on without that doohickey thing. Ah well, one day in the future, I'm hoping.

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