An Alliance soldier breaks in on Joker and Shepard dining and tries to convince the pair that someone is trying to kill Shepard, a fact that has not been lost on either of the two diners. You get to explore a bit, datapads scattered about with audio logs from Anderson for a biography he was getting written, really getting you into Anderson a bit, but an e-mail from Joker inviting you to dinner at an ‘authentic French’ Sushi bar nearby has you heading out, and of course into trouble. Anderson loans you his apartment on the Citadel for your stay there, especially since he’s stuck on Earth, but is even thinking about staying as he feels much closer to it now that he’s been fighting there. You trigger this after resolving the Citadel coup attempt in the main game with an e-mail from Admiral Hackett ordering you to dock the Normandy for needed systems overhaul and repairs and while you’re at it, to take an extended shore leave for yourself and your crew while the ship is getting a well-baby visit from Alliance engineers. This is a love letter and a labor of love for the fans from the original team at BioWare that worked on the first three games in this franchise before it gets handed over to one of the other BioWare teams for the next installment.
If you’re looking for a bright spot of fun with a brief stint into Mass Effect‘s universe and Shepard dealing with some long-standing sci-fi clichés and getting to banter and play with old squadmates and a new area of the giant hub of the galaxy to play in, you’re in for a treat. If you’re looking for something to reinvent the wheel as far as ending content, this isn’t it. Is it worth dropping the $15 for this? That depends on what you’re looking for with this DLC. So almost a year later the last bit of single player DLC launches with what will also be the last multiplayer DLC as we get a chance to revisit with our old squadmates that didn’t make the cut this time around and give Shepard some much needed shore leave with Citadel.
We’ve seen four story-driven DLC releases for the single player game including From Ashes, which was included with the Collector’s Edition and introduced the Prothean squadmate, the Extended Cut which tried to smooth things over a bit for the endings, Leviathan introduced us to a more in-depth look at an ancient race, and Omega let us work with Aria to take back that asteroid. Mass Effect 3 has been pretty successful since launch despite the controversy over the endings.
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