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Xbox 360, PC*, PS3

  • Release Date: March 5, 2013
  • MSRP: $14.99 (PC, PS3) 1200 Microsoft points (Xbox 360)

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(We'll keep the spoilers to a minimum in this report, both for Mass Effect 3 in general and the 'Citadel' DLC specifically, but the YouTube videos I link to do contain complete scenes from the DLC. Expect spoilers if you click through.)

Mass Effect 3 has had several downloadable content packages released which expand on some aspects of the single-player game, including most recently the 'Omega' package, but this week Bioware let loose rather a different single-player pack: the 'Citadel' DLC. What makes it different isn't just that it includes participation from every major Mass Effect crew character and voice actor—though that's a welcome change from some past Mass Effect DLC packs—but that the focus of the package isn't really on tossing Shepard and crew into another combat arena. Instead, the DLC quite literally lets the crew of the Normandy get boozed up and partied out...and it's great.

It’s all about the journey

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When Mass Effect 3 was released a bit over a year ago, the reviews were mixed. It drew praise for its strong story and powerful emotional beats, but at the same time there was the issue of that ending—it was an amazing 30-hour-plus journey capped off with what many felt was 15 minutes of hand-waving and three bad (and essentially identical) choices.

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Bioware padded things out a bit with the 'Extended Cut' DLC in June, adding more details to the ending, including a fourth dialog option that explicitly rejected the original three endgame choices, a response to many fans' claims that their Shepard would have told the ending's deus ex machina to go get stuffed. What I found to be the most important part of the 'Extended Cut' DLC, though, was the extra battlefield scene just before the final showdown, wherein Shepard is given one last moment to say goodbye to whichever crewperson he or she had formed a romantic relationship with.

The first game in the Mass Effect series was very much a formulaic, cookie-cutter Bioware game, complete with the requisite Tower of Hanoi puzzle. But over the series' three games I've come to care deeply about Shepard and the crew of the Normandy. The friendships and romances formed are a significant part of the attraction, far more so than the combat, which has never really been my favorite. The role-playing aspect has been the reason I've stuck with Shepard and company. The moments in Mass Effect 3 that were the most powerful and beautiful weren't the huge set-piece explosion-fests, but the bits of character interaction between missions—the kind of things that people often write fan fiction about. What do the characters do when they're off-duty?

Hanging out with my space bros

In Mass Effect 3, players didn't have to write fan fiction to get a peek into the crew's rec time. Archeologist Liara T'Soni builds a time capsule. Stoic teammate Garrus Vakarian (my Shepard's space brother from another mother) takes Shepard target shooting and ends up with one of the greatest lines of dialogue in the entire series. Sure, the moments were obvious fan service, but after years of following the series, these palate-cleansing bits of fun were refreshing—more than refreshing, in fact. They were humanizing.

But what if there were more than a few isolated moments of fun to be had? What if there were a DLC containing a couple hours of pure, unadulterated silliness?

The 'Citadel' DLC contains an interesting mission as its base, but its true purpose is to provide Commander Shepard and the Normandy crew with a giant apartment on the Citadel in which to throw the mother of all parties (I am not being metaphorical here). The DLC is a big, wet, sloppy three-hour fan-service kiss... and as everyone's favorite Turian once said, 'I'm OK with that.0010'

The DLC's tone is light throughout, and every single main crew member from all three Mass Effect games gets at least a few minutes in the spotlight. Even the main plot mission, involving the theft of the Normandy by an unexpectedly familiar evil-doer, is carried off with tongue firmly in cheek. Characters offer up quips more often here and every scene feels like it's done with a nod and a wink to the fans.

It may be too silly for some fans, however. Mass Effect 3 is generally a pretty serious game, dealing with a galactic-level extinction event and the destruction of all known life. Shepard's team is on the clock for the whole game, trying to rally support for their war against world-destroying enemies, and the player is constantly reminded that even as the crew is relatively safe flying around in space, Earth is under siege. The rare bits of relaxation in the game feel like genuinely stolen moments, and there's always a bit of guilt that you're not trying harder to save Earth.

'Citadel' upends that. Shepard and the crew are on shore leave—dropping the Normandy off at dock and gettin' crunk in Admiral Anderson's enormous Citadel apartment. Without dropping spoilers, the DLC is timed to take place after the midpoint in the game. If it were inserted at that point into my first playthrough of Mass Effect 3, the interlude would seem ridiculous and out-of-place, releasing the game's tension like a balloon rapidly deflating. 'Sure, the galaxy is at stake,' it seems to say, 'but let's all party and ham it up for the camera for a bit!'

But for most of the players interested in this particular DLC, it's not really taking place midgame. For those who have played through the game already, the DLC functions as Bioware clearly meant it to function: it's one last big, beautiful goodbye.

Once more, with feeling

Every important crewmember from each game gets a moment alone with Shepard. Some scenes, like those devoted to assassin and potential love interest Thane Krios, are heartbreaking; others, like bailing young Krogan teammate Grunt out from an encounter with Citadel Security, will make you smile so hard that your face will be in danger of cracking. Even love interests given short shrift in Mass Effect 3 (like Miranda Lawson and Jacob Taylor) are allowed one last extended scene with Shepard.

'Citadel' is just that—a series of 'one last times,' stuffed full of treasure for those who love the series and its characters. The folks at Bioware have absolutely outdone themselves, cramming in an almost overwhelming number of inside jokes and giggles. The DLC even offers a direct response to one of the most infamous bits of Mass Effect fan-generated insanity to ever pop up on the Internet: a creepy-weird bit of armchair chemistry theorizing about what ship engineer Tali's sweat would smell like.

For players like me who are emotionally invested in the series, 'Citadel' is excellent. It's like a gift from Bioware, a perfect bit of fanwankery made canonical. Whether or not it fits in with the larger tone of Mass Effect 3 is questionable, but it gives us all one last chance to see Shepard and his crew happy. This can sometimes be a bit too much, like eating your entire haul after trick-or-treating, but who doesn't want to overdose on candy every once in a while?

Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playingvideo game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 6, 2012, and for Wii U on November 18, 2012. The game features a variety of downloadable content packs that were released from March 2012 to April 2013 on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and BioWare's Social Network. The Wii U version of the game does not support downloadable content but includes several packs. The content listed as promotional content was only available to the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game through limited promotional opportunities.

  • 1Single-player content
  • 2Multiplayer content

Single-player content[edit]

General content[edit]

ContentRelease dateWii U
From AshesMarch 6, 2012Yes[1]
  • Included in the Mass Effect 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition and the Mass Effect 3 N7 Collector's Edition.[1]
  • Adds two missions, a squad member, an assault rifle, and other items.[1]
  • Concerns the recovery of an ancient artifact.
Extended CutJune 26, 2012 (July 4, 2012 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)Yes[1]
  • Adds new cinematics and epilogue scenes that expand upon the game's original ending.[2]
Firefight PackAugust 7, 2012Yes
  • Adds a sniper rifle, a shotgun, two assault rifles, two submachine guns, and the sniper rifle from the M-90 Indra promotional content pack.[3]
LeviathanAugust 28, 2012 (August 29, 2012 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)[4]No
  • Adds numerous missions, the assault rifle from the M-55 Argus promotional content pack, the shotgun from the AT-12 Raider promotional content pack, and other items.
  • Concerns the chase of an aquatic creature.[4]
Groundside Resistance PackOctober 16, 2012No
  • Adds two assault rifles, two shotguns, two heavy pistols, and a sniper rifle.[5]
Alternate Appearance Pack 1November 20, 2012No
  • Adds an armor set and three squad member outfits.[6]
OmegaNovember 27, 2012 (November 28, 2012 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)No[7]
  • Adds five missions, the N7 Valkyrie assault rifle from the N7 Warfare Gear promotional content pack, the assault rifle from the Chakram Launcher promotional content pack, and other items.
  • Concerns Shepard aiding gangster Aria T'Loak in retaking a black market station from enemy forces.[7]
CitadelMarch 5, 2013 (March 6, 2013 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)No
  • Adds numerous missions, several gambling and arcade mini-games, a series of battle arena challenges, three armor sets, an assault rifle, a heavy pistol, and other items.
  • Shepard rallies his/her crew to help him investigate an attempted identity theft and prevent the hijacking of the Normandy, however the DLC is primarily concerned with allowing Shepard (and the player) to experience additional character interactions with crewmates and friends from the series.[8]
Mass Effect: Genesis 2April 2, 2013Yes[9]
  • Adds an interactive comic that allows the player to impact the story of Mass Effect 3 with several major plot decisions of the original Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. This is primarily for players that have not played the earlier games, and want to catchup on the storyline as well as unique player decisions.

Promotional content[edit]

Content
AT-12 Raider
  • Pre-order bonus from Origin (PC-only).[10]
  • Included in the Leviathan general content pack.
  • Adds a shotgun.[10]
M-55 Argus
  • Pre-order bonus from any retailer.[10]
  • Included in the Leviathan general content pack and the N7 Warfare Gear promotional content pack.
  • Adds an assault rifle.[10]
M-90 Indra
  • Limited code giveaway from Alienware (PC-only).[11]
  • Included in the Firefight Pack general content pack.
  • Adds a sniper rifle.
Chakram Launcher
  • Acquired by completing the demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.[12]
  • Included in the Omega general content pack.
  • Adds an assault rifle.[12]
Reckoner Knight Armor
  • Acquired by completing the demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.[12]
  • Adds an armor set.[12]
N7 Warfare Gear
  • Pre-order bonus from GameStop.[10]
  • Adds an armor set, an assault rifle called N7 Valkyrie, and the assault rifle from the M-55 Argus promotional content pack.[10]
  • The N7 Valkyrie assault rifle is included in the Omega general content pack.
N7 Collector's Edition Pack
  • Exclusive to players who purchased the Mass Effect 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition or the Mass Effect 3 N7 Collector's Edition.[13]
  • Adds a submachine gun, a shotgun, a sniper rifle, a heavy pistol, and other items.[13]

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Multiplayer content[edit]

General content[edit]

ContentRelease dateWii U
Online PassMarch 6, 2012N/A
  • Activates the multiplayer mode for PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.[14]
Resurgence PackApril 10, 2012 (April 11, 2012 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)Yes[9]
  • Adds two maps, six characters, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, a submachine gun, and other items.[15]
Rebellion PackMay 29, 2012 (May 30, 2012 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)Yes[9]
  • Adds two maps, six characters, a match objective, a gear slot, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, and a shotgun.[16]
EarthJuly 17, 2012 (July 18, 2012 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)Yes[9]
  • Adds three maps, six characters, a difficulty setting, a match objective, an assault rifle, a heavy pistol, a shotgun, and other items.[17]
RetaliationOctober 9, 2012 (October 10, 2012 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)No
  • Adds numerous characters released over time, an enemy faction, six variants of pre-existing maps, a challenges system, a sniper rifle, a submachine gun, the assault rifle from the Collector Assault Rifle promotional content pack, and other items.[18]
ReckoningFebruary 26, 2013 (February 27, 2013 for PlayStation 3 in Europe)No
  • Adds six characters, three assault rifles, two heavy pistols, a shotgun, a submachine gun, and other items.[19]

Promotional content[edit]

Content
Collector Assault Rifle
  • Acquired by pre-ordering a copy of The Art of the Mass Effect Universe from Barnes & Noble,[20] or by purchasing the digital version of The Art of the Mass Effect Universe or the entire Mass Effect: Invasion series through Dark Horse digital store.
  • Included in the Retaliation general content pack.
  • Adds an assault rifle.
Battlefield 3 Pack
  • Acquired by signing into the multiplayer using an Origin account linked to a Battlefield 3 Online Pass.
  • Adds multiplayer items.
Premium Collectible Pack
  • Acquired by purchasing Mass Effectaction figure packs.[21]
  • Adds multiplayer items.
Recruitment Reward Pack
  • Acquired through the Mass Effect 3 Recruitment Program application on Facebook.
  • Adds multiplayer items.

References[edit]

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  3. ^Dave Cook (2012-08-08). 'Mass Effect 3 Firefight Pack out now'. VG247. Archived from the original on 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
  4. ^ abConnor Sheridan (2012-08-15). 'Mass Effect 3 Leviathan DLC releases August 28'. GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2012-08-19. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
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  16. ^Jim Reilly (2012-05-24). 'Mass Effect 3: Rebellion Pack Announced'. Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2013-05-03. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  17. ^Tom Phillips (2012-07-10). 'Mass Effect 3: Earth DLC Xbox 360 release date'. Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 2013-05-03. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  18. ^Andrew Goldfarb (2012-10-04). 'Mass Effect 3 Retaliation Multiplayer DLC Announced'. IGN. Archived from the original on 2013-05-03. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  19. ^Andrew Goldfarb (2013-02-21). 'Final Mass Effect 3 Single-Player, Multiplayer DLC Announced'. IGN. Archived from the original on 2013-04-19. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
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  21. ^Alexander Sliwinski (2012-01-23). 'Mass Effect action figures include ME3 DLC'. Joystiq. Archived from the original on 2013-05-04. Retrieved 2013-05-04.

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