Examiner.com’s Raymond Herrera reviews the latest downloadable add-on for BioWare’s space adventure Mass Effect 2. Complete with car chases, betrayal and hordes of enemies Lair of the Shadow Broker gives gamers a chance to finally see who the mystery man really is and confront him.
"Mass Effect 2 released early this year and has continued to stay updated with new DLC since it release, including Katsumi’s Stolen Memory, which added a new party member and plenty of small add-ons which added weapons and armor to Commander Shepard’s arsenal. This time however gamers are given the chance to team up with an ally from the first Mass Effect game as she sets out to get revenge on the Shadow Broker.
All-in-all the add-on is a little over two and a half hours long and does a very good job of keeping players entertained the entire time, while also giving them the opportunity to do something many of them have wanted to do since the first game, confront the Shadow Broker."
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
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Diandra worked on Diablo 4 and also other games at Blizzard including WoW: Dragon Flight. She’s also been at Bioware, Carbine, RIOT, and she is currently working at Crystal Dynamics.
Brian was the Lead Writer on Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls, worked on StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm, StarCraft: Wings of Liberty, and was also a writer on Mass Effect 2. He’s also been involved in movies such as the Iron Giant.
Diandra and Brian discuss their industry experience, the games they have worked on, how the writing process works, and much more.
