Enter Mass Effect 2's 'Lair of the Shadow Broker' on September 7

by JC Fletcher on Aug 23rd 2010 4:20PM

Your Mass Effect 2 party has been waiting patiently outside of the Shadow Broker's lair for weeks now, playing the sci-fi equivalent of Pokemon (it's actually still Pokemon) on their five-screened game systems to pass the time. An announcement from BioWare reveals that you'll be let in on September 7, when the new "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC is released on PC and Xbox 360. It'll cost 800 Microsoft Points or 800 BioWare Points ($10).

The announcement mentions five new achievements, new research, and the Shadow Broker intel center -- but here's where it gets interesting. The new DLC will "give fans from Mass Effect 1 the chance to continue a relationship with Liara." The Shadow Broker is going to be so upset when he finds out people are sneaking into his lair for hanky-panky.

Mass Effect 2 ("Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC)

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I think im the only Mass Effect fan who hates Liara.

@MatthewMk2 no your not

@MatthewMk2

Nope. She is bland, and fraud. You have good reasons not to like her.

She is still not as bad as googly-eyed Ash though...

@MatthewMk2

I could take her or leave her. Funny, I did both. I don't see the fuss though.

However, I do welcome more DLC for Mass Effect, as long as it fleshes out the story instead of being just a cash in job.

@MatthewMk2

Team Tali.

@Mirhderer

Team Tali FTW

@MatthewMk2 : I dunno, Liara's "o"-face was pretty intense.

"Embrace eternity, Shepard."

"Err, did your eyes just turn black?"

Tali? So you guys chose the girl with the father complex? I'm gonna laugh when she ends up looking like Zoidberg in ME3.

@MatthewMk2 I bet her (Va Jay Jay) smells... ;0)

@MatthewMk2 Out of all the asari in the galaxy, out of all the ones we just meet on our own, we had to get the only one with a baby face and a new england old money accent. Ah well, it could have been worse, she could have been the lady that drives us to Thane's mission. Also, to all you dear "Talimancers" i present to you, the horrible truth of your preferred woman http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/128/index/2082466/1

@Deschain At least she ain't straight crazy like the rest of them. And she isn't a fish you idiot, the helmet isn't full of water, it's like a hazmat suit.

@Shimmy I think that Tali has never had a bath seeing as her species has always been in those suits since leaving their home planet..

So yeah she would be pretty stinky seeing as she must sweat and such..

@oJMan240o

Please tell me when you have ever seen Zoidberg wear a helmet full of water and I will not call you a complete moron. Besides that, It was a joke.

@MatthewMk2 Nah. Actually, she's a pretty popular character to hate. I'd even say it's more rare to actually like her. Tali's the most popular I'd say, with her talifans and all. In my case, I love Liara.

*holds up a Team Miranda placard*

Human on human snu-snu is where it's at.

@Deschain: You know, in ME2, daddy issues really weren't that uncommon. Tali had them, Miranda had them, and Jacob had them. And then Thane's son had daddy issues with Thane as well. You may even argue that Grunt had "daddy" issues (remember how he's always talking about the voice he heard while he was in the tank?). I mean really Bioware, could you guys not have thought of anything else? Surely there are other personal conflicts these characters could have undergone...

@Axlin

Good lord you're right.

But a father complex is a little more...complex...than simple daddy issues. She is in love with Shepard because he acts as her surrogate father.

Releases on my B-day :)

Looking forward to this DLC

@Moaky

More importantly, it's the same day season 3 of Sons of Anarchy premieres. :)

Wow! Worth while ME2 DLC?! Inconceivable!!!

@Deschain

Apparently you guys like getting nickeled an dimed to death? There has been no good ME2 dlc at all. weapon packs and useless crap galore.

@Deschain

lol y u so mad tho

@Deschain

You know what the great thing is about it?

*You* don't have to buy it.

But clearly you haven't played Overlord, because it was excellent. Kasumi wasn't bad either, and the Hammerhead missions were a nice distraction, especially since they were free. Personally, I can't wait for this one. Looks to be great.

@Spartan117458

You act as if I was complaining about it in the first place. What part of "worthwhile" would make you think I didn't want it? The other dlc is pretty much crap though, free or not, it's still just free crap.

Wouldn't it be epic if we could actually do it on the Shadowbroker's coffee table...?

And no matthew, I quite disliked her as well... but no female beats out my shear hatred of Ashley...

@DevilSei

Ashley is the worst.

I never thought they'd make me regret letting that whiny moron Carth... er, Kaiden die, instead of her. If only the Collectors had been a little faster...

Thanks, Bioware. Thanks a lot.

I wonder if I have the option to start boning Liara if I've already been getting it on with another crew member.

I wish my relationships with these people didn't have to be so black and white/all or nothing. Where is this Utopian love fest I keep hearing about?

@Mortegro

Probably won't be any boning in the DLC, but Bioware has said that romancing someone in ME2 will have effects on your previous love interests in ME3.

Fun fact: If you play through ME2 with a ME1 save file and don't romance any of the characters, Shepard will look at a picture of his previous lover before going through the Omega-4 Relay, as opposed to seeing a love scene commence.

@Killimus2188 Well, what I want to know is why there are no threesomes or foursomes as is want to happen in Dragon Age.

Come on, it's the same company.

What if I already nailed Miranda?

@mondeca: She's the warm-up girl. Shepard has to stay on his game.

@MGTrey

I thought Ashley was the warmup girl?

Not gonna lie ... I'm not sure if Shepard can one up Miranda, or whether there is anyone else that can one up Miranda lol.

@BoBsS

Ashley is dead in my game, so it'd be pretty weird porking a corpse.

@mondeca Cat fight between Miranda and Liara while the Shadow Broke fights Shepard in a fist fight.. (just like the final boss battle in MGS4)

Isn't this that filthy sex game they told us about on the news? On the Sexbox?

And now MORE hanky-panky is comeing in DLC form?! I'm gonna tip FOX-NEWS about this one. outrage.

@Supino

Oh yeah!! If you thought that sweet, sweet view of the side of a blue alien's plump ass was bad in ME1, just wait til you see ME2s even racier scene! You actually get to see some side-boob AND inner thigh in this!

@Supino

Make sure you tip them that she's a blue alien! They love those types of details in their made-up stories.

They need to just release all the DLC onto one disc for a slightly discounted price, cause, I missed the first couple of DLC packs, and now I feel so far behind that I find it hard to buy them. This happened to me with Fallout 3, if i wanted to buy em all at once, it just seems like it'd cost so much

@Ryuk

I agree! I haven't bought any ME2 dlc even though I love the series. Just never got around to it. There's always the ps3 version I guess.

@Ryuk Why does that matter? It doesn't matter. Just buy them and play them. It's not really an issue. I'm waiting for ME3 to get Overlord and whatever else comes out after it so that I have something fresh when I go back through again before the next game drops.

@oJMan240o

You don't need to hold off on playing Overlord! Bioware is doing a great job steadily releasing DLC between ME2 and ME3. If we keep buying they'll keep releasing, which means a lot of awesome story to keep us pumped.

Then again - I'm just a fangirl who never wants Mass Effect to stray far from her thoughts.

Who cares about Liara? More Tali please!

@ipsum

Last time I explored Tali she wound up in intensive care for a week...

@PlatinumSkeet

Well then, you should of read Mordins pamphlet...

She only got a minor cold from me, after I bathed and soaked myself in anti-bacterial solution, wore a full-body condom, though I think what gave her the cold was the listerine I used beforehand... she did say something about a "minty aftertaste"...

After Mass Effect 1, I was hoping that the Shadow Broker would play a larger part in the storyline of the later games than just DLC. I'm pretty disappointed by the direction they've gone with this part of it, but they've gotta have those microtransactions.

@jems617

This'll do. This kind of content is too big for a ME3 sidequest(plus we'll be kinda busy with the Reapers), but too little for its own game. BioWare did say the DLC for ME2 would bridge the gap to ME3, and dealing with the Shadow Broker definitely fits with that theme.

Five new achievements? Sounds like this DLC might be a bit longer than the previous ones.

@Mobile prices

I'd write something humorous about this comment, but I know it's just going to get deleted soon, and my reply is just going to be left dangling and have no context whatsoever.

Wait... Dammit!

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Enter Mass Effect 2's 'Lair of the Shadow Broker' on September 7

Mass Effect 2 ("Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC)

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