New Mass Effect 2 DLC stars Liara

By Robert Purchese Published 23 July, 2010

In Lair of the Shadow Broker.

BioWare has unveiled the next lump of Mass Effect 2 DLC as Lair of the Shadow Broker.

This will star blue lady and ME1 team-member Liara T'Soni. She fought the Shadow Broker two years ago to recover Shepard's corpse. Now the biotic specialist will rejoin Shepard and "even the score", wrote BioWare on its website.

Lair of the Shadow Broker is "coming soon". No price has been announced.

The first three shots are below. Is that a new shotgun I see?

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  • Armoured_Gideon #1 2 years ago

    So will they release the three 'story' DLCs on one disc I wonder, a la Borderlands? I'd be all over that.

  • StueyBoy16 #2 2 years ago

    That's very good news. I was disappointed by how little she was in Mass Effect 2.
    Looks like a new pistol as well which is very welcome as the current two are both awful.

  • andywilkie35 #3 2 years ago

    I want MOAR DLC for a game I finished almost half a year ago!

  • FreakyZoid #4 2 years ago

    > Is that a new shotgun I see?

    Who knows? All weapons in the same category in ME2 look and feel the same anyway.

  • d00dl #5 2 years ago

    Mass Effect 2 is costing me money...but it's worth it :) [apart from the costume pack]

  • Horse #6 2 years ago

    The romance subplots were the most unconvincing of the whole ME experience. Particularly memorable was the part in ME2 when Chief Williams asks you where you've been for the past two years, and the three things you're given to choose from in response are all things only morons or assholes would say. The competing needs to develop good characters and drive the plot forward gave my suspension of disbelief a far few knocks there. And Liara went from being swooning in love with you in ME1 to being politely interested in your not being dead yet.

  • Dr.Mott #7 2 years ago

    I cheated on Liara with Tali. I hope she won't be mad.

  • Moribundman #8 2 years ago

    @earlbassett Project $10. Not project endless stream of free DLC the team have worked hard on post-release! :-P

  • BlitzwingHaz #9 2 years ago

    They messed up the Liara subpolt in ME2 imo, this should have been in there already. I dumped her ass because she was more interested in some personal vendetta thing than me and went with Tali instead. :D
    I think Liara's motives weren't protrayed well in game.
    I really want this but I'm sick of buying DLC for this game.

  • Moribundman #10 2 years ago

    Hopefully for all (DLC fans and naysayers) the plot-heavy angle to this one suggests it might be a bit more substantial than previous releases. After all - this and Kasumi were ferreted out months ago via code references designed to integrate them into the game - the other stuff (with the exception of Overlord) seems to be more of a (mute) N7 bolt on than a fully integrated add on.

    The main problem I see with detailed DLC is that you can'thave any major plot details that impact on ME3 because you can't guarantee people will have played them at all. All the DLC is filling out the role the Cerberus missions played in ME1 - an optional quest string that could be totally bypassed but foreshadowed what was to come.

  • Moribundman #11 2 years ago

    @BlitzwingHaz It's true, ME2 turned everyone Shepard cared about into total asshats come ME2 (Ash/Kaiden, Liara and Anderson). Justifiable in plot terms for the Alliance bods (although it would have been nice for Anderson to give you a bit more credit instead of just sulkily staring out at the Presidium for the whole game!) but with Liara it definitely seemed "off" especially as even if she was your love interest and even though she went out of her way to bring Shepard back, she seemed far more interested in the Drell bloke who the Shadow Broker killed...

    Liara and the Shadow Broker were a little squandered in ME2. You could sell intel to him on Cerberus, which should have been a MUCH bigger deal in ME2 than they actually made it. Maybe this DLC will address it.

  • Mark1412 #12 2 years ago

    "DLC the team have worked hard on post-release!"

    Ahahahahaha, don't be silly.

  • PlugMonkey #13 2 years ago

    This is what I said they should do with DLC - side stories with the other characters that fill in the gaps. It's better than adding content to the main story that I've already finished. This sounds good.

  • Caimbeul #14 2 years ago

    looks like a nice bit of DLC - I have played 1&2 through on X360 and am itching to playthough again with my PC versions

    /Wonders how to convince wife it ok to dissapear to the study for a couple of weeks

  • Moribundman #15 2 years ago

    @Mark1412 LOL yeah well, maybe tongue in cheek there, but Overlord and Kasumi were both very good IMO. If you're an ubercompletist then the armour/weapon bits are nice but possibly a little pricey... Wait until they bundle them all up and release as a combo pack.

    They are very unlikely to to a GOTY edition of this though... ME1 took nearly 2 years to come out as a 2 disc platinum version and that only had the first DLC on it...

  • telboy007 #16 2 years ago

    Playthroughs on ME 1 & 2 combined have almost hit double figures for me now, I've only just managed to break my addiction to the bloody things and now they're tempting me back in! YIPPEE!!!!!!

  • TeaFiend #17 2 years ago

    Suspect purchase.

  • Thedni #18 2 years ago

    Sounds good, it's a real shame that such a major character in the first game had such a small part in the second.

    Could be a few awkward moments in this though, would be amusing to see Sheperd survive the reapers to be taken down by Liara after cheating.

  • StooMonster #19 2 years ago

    Played Overlord last night, and thought it was pretty good.

  • Dr.Frappers #20 2 years ago

    I think i've just cum

  • Bluetooth #21 2 years ago

    Would be nice to bring her back for some more lovin

    It's been a while

  • hiddenranbir #22 2 years ago

    Is it AFTER the main story or during? Because it again seems a waste to slot it into have it happen during the main plot.

  • dagas #23 2 years ago

    These small DLC packs are alright, but I would want an expansion á la Dragon Age. Something that lasts more than 1½ hours.

  • Rack #24 2 years ago

    ^ You may well, but Bioware would much prefer you to buy an hour of cheaply slapped together content for a fiver than 20 hours with all new characters and plotlines for 20 quid.

  • Stepharneo #25 2 years ago

    Am I the only one who thinks that Liara's face model is completely broken, she always looks really disturbed by the things coming from her mouth, I think it's the way her eyes spaz about a bit and go a little "awesome face" ...Perhaps it's just the pc version, but mass effect does have a history of broken face models, here's looking at you Garrus.

  • ChthonicEcho #26 2 years ago

    @hiddenrabir

    +1. I want to know, as well. It seems as though it would make more sense if it happened after the storyline.

    I also hope it's longer than Overlord, since you're actually going after a fairly important entity in the Mass Effect setting. I'd hate it if I just walked through three buildings and found the most elusive man/woman/whatever in the galaxy.

  • Vortex808 #27 2 years ago

    After buying the Kasumi one, i vowed not to buy another. I've avoided doing that so far despite swithering about Overlord, but this, now this sounds veeeeery tempting........

    I definitely prefer the idea of further stories on characters already in the game for DLC.

  • Skjald #28 2 years ago

    Liara was always my favorite character, I'm glad to see her coming back.

  • AphoticCosmos #29 2 years ago

    Liara!

  • Zaiz #30 2 years ago

    Shepard still isn't homosexual, right Bioware? Right? Definitely not girl Shepard, who has a female stripper in her room, and a romantic relationship with a female blue alien. Never.

    DLC for this game doesn't look to be worth my time, honestly. I'd like to get good six hour chunks of gameplay, not one hour nibbles.

  • busboy33 #31 2 years ago

    Granted Liara was underused on ME2, but in the story arc she's been thru alot. Hell, look at Garrus. He was a wet-behind-the-ears idealist, and now he's just on the sane side of Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. Personally, I like the feeling that there's a bigger story going on.

    @Dr.Mott:
    I read somewhere that cheating or not cheating from ME1 to ME2 will definitely play into the story, so I'd start working on your cover story because apparently she's going to find out.

    Speaking of, WTF was up with Ashley in ME2? You meet her on Horizion and she's all "where have you been for 2 years" and I'm like "well, I was dead" and she gets pissed at me?!? I'm sorry I was dead. You're right, I should have called. I'm clearly the bastard in this situation. Y'know, being DEAD and all. Nice to see you too.

    If she gets pissed at me for "cheating" after all of that hormonal rampaging, I'm not going to be pleased.

  • ReaperOscuro #32 2 years ago

    Time to make myself look like a complete noob...
    Wtf does Liara foght the shadow broker for Shepards body? Last i checked the smoking man -sorry, the Elusive man gpt
    it...
    Pity though. Was hoping id be a nice narrative chunk in me3, looks like i wont. They need to make the subplot justice though, the shadow broker is a pretty huuuge thing, and anyway shouldnt be bloody allowed if you fail Liaras investigation during me2 main plot.