

Meaning, sunrise and sunset, there’s a section of the planet where the two temperatures clash, and you have savage thunderstorms. The second section, where you go breaking down the Shadow Broker’s front door, takes place on a planet where there’s extreme heat when the sun’s up, extreme cold when the sun’s down. The first section alone is relentless, varied, spectacular stuff, and just barely might’ve been worth the price on its own. It has a fare meter.”), and a boss battle against a super-fast biotic (which, if you play Vanguard, get smart early and use Charge to chase her around, becomes something even more special, unique to any other fight in the game. The first is hands down THE best executed action beat in the series so far, going from a minor crime scene investigation during a thunderstorm, which turns into, in order, a basic shootout, an explosion in an apartment complex, a double-cross, a Quantum of Solace-esque footchase and biotic brawl (complete with one of these shots ), a darker, more adult iteration of the speeder car chase/club scene from Attack of the Clones, complete with infinitely better writing (Aside from the perverse line about why the hotel is called what it is, best line: “What does this thing have for weapons?” “It’s a taxi. There’s three distinct parts to the mission. It’s real easy to balk at the price of admission–$10 for about two hours of actual gameplay–but you’ll know where your money went within about 10-15 minutes. This is now the bar against which DLC for this game can be judged.

Now, Cerberus has given Shepard a lead which could allow Liara to take down the Broker once and for all. The Premise: For two years, Liara T’Soni has been chasing the Shadow Broker, the galaxy’s most dangerous information dealer, in retaliation for kidnapping a dear friend of hers, and for attempting to sell Shepard’s body to the Collectors after the first Normandy was destroyed.

The Title: Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
