BioWare employed six people to work on the content full-time. Work on “Bring Down the Sky” began weeks after Mass Effect was finalized. This is “Bring Down the Sky” in all its glory. Each of their kill switches is found on a console inside bland buildings. There are three torches spewing bright flame. A woman tells me via comm that people have attacked the rock and that I need to shut off the fusion torches propelling the asteroid towards Terra Nova. Debris swirls, then rests on Asteroid X57 again. The Mako plummets from the sleek hull of the Normandy. This is a walkthrough with heavy developer commentary. Before it can, a splinter group of batarians hijacks the rock and uses its goliath fusion thrusters to put the asteroid on a collision course. The rock is to become an orbital base for the colonists of Terra Nova. Asteroid X57 isn’t a cosmic freak, a space dart thrown blindly by the just hand of God. “We all know the traditional hero saves the lives of innocents, but in Mass Effect you don’t have to be a traditional hero.”Īnother layer. Asteroid hurtling at a planet, the lives of millions on the edge, extremist terrorists, and a devastating moral choice: do you capture the terrorist, or save the lives of innocents,” Christina Norman asks. “The story, to me, seems to have a very action movie-esque feel to it.
That may not have been the goal, but at least one BioWare technical director agrees with me. Its story components read like fiction bred from a Hollywood scriptwriter. It was released on Xbox LIVE Marketplace on March 10, 2008. “Bring Down the Sky” is the first and only downloadable content for Mass Effect. An entire planet will wither from the upcoming catastrophe, unless the first human Spectre decides to ignore an intergalactic threat and take on the task of stopping Asteroid X57’s deadly descent. Millions will be eviscerated by the impact, countless others by choking on their ashes. Whenever possible, Destructoid rediscovers and discusses an old game (or content) for our “Revisited” series.Ī colossal asteroid punches through the inky black, hurtling towards a thriving human colony.
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