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Mass Effect DLC free for PC

Published on 30th July 2008 by Joe Martin

The Bring Down The Sky content pack for Mass Effect is available for free now for the PC version.

The PC version of Mass Effect has had a fair share of trouble in its short time on shelves - mainly to do with the later release date and the anti-piracy DRM bundled inside the software, but finally there's some good news.

EA Bioware has just announced that the downloadable content pack for the game, titled as Bring Down The Sky, has been made available for PC gamers to download free of charge. That's a powerful spite for all those Xbox 360 owners who paid top dollar for it!

Bring Down The Sky tells the story of some Batarian terrorists who are gearing up to crash a rocket-propelled asteroid into a nearby human colony, and it's your job to stop them. You can get more information on Bring Down The Sky in our review of the Xbox 360 version, but since the PC version is free you can pretty much just download it anyway.

If you want to grab the extra free content then you can download the pack here and the latest patch, or follow the prompts on the launch screen of the game.

The pack adds another 90 minutes or so to the game, supposedly. Let us know what you think of it in the forums.

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wuyanxu 30th July 2008, 09:30

this is what PC gaming is about: cheaper games with free DLC :)

cjoyce1980 30th July 2008, 09:36

hope that means the 360 content will be free now

badders 30th July 2008, 09:43

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Originally Posted by cjoyce1980
hope that means the 360 content will be free now

Hahahahahahaha. Come off it!

CardJoe 30th July 2008, 09:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by cjoyce1980
hope that means the 360 content will be free now

I very much doubt it.

Hg 30th July 2008, 10:09

i'm tempted to buy this game heard good things about it, this is more of a reason to buy it i guess

Mentai 30th July 2008, 10:17

The fact that it's free isn't actually news. It's advertised on the back of the games case, "Includes free additional content - face off against the horrific Batarians". I was actually very disapointed that I couldn't do that straight out of the box since the content was already made (and implied with the game). I'll try it out later, but such a delayed addition is pretty crap, I'm done with that game twice over and just want the next one =/

impar 30th July 2008, 10:23

Greetings!

For the ones having issues running .exe files after the installation of the patch:
http://masseffect.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=643285&forum=127

rollo 30th July 2008, 11:05

its free for pc cause its sponsored by somebody.

its not free for 360 though

johnnyboy700 30th July 2008, 12:23

You don't get anything for free, you may not be paying for it directly but at some point somebody does - even indirectly. In this case its sponsered.

Zut 30th July 2008, 14:00

Its not free, its included in the price of the retail game, as Mentai says.

I would have expected bit-tech to know its stuff.

MrMonroe 30th July 2008, 14:41

Must... not... say... I... told you... so.....

Xir 30th July 2008, 16:08

...didn't even know it was available for pc ;-)