Mass Effect Trilogy Will Include Some DLC, Varies by Platform

By Landon Robinson | 02 October 2012 | 8 Comments

The recently announced Mass Effect Trilogy collection from BioWare, which includes all three of the Mass Effect games, will include some, but not all, of previously released downloadable content. What content you get, oddly, is decided by which platform you choose to pick up the game on.

It only gets weirder from here, folks. Buckle up.

PC buyers of the Mass Effect Trilogy will receive the most content of the three platforms, as they’ll get ‘Bring Down the Sky’ and ‘Pinnacle Station’ for Mass Effect 1 via an additional add-on disc. Additionally, the day-one ME2 DLC Hub ‘Cerberus Network’ will be included, as will the online pass for ME3.

For Xbox 360 owners out there, well, you get the slightly shorter end of the stick. You won’t get any of the Mass Effect 1 DLC, but you will get the ME2 ‘Cerberus Network’ and the online pass for ME3.

For PlayStation 3 owners, well, we’re not honestly sure what end of the stick you get here, because BioWare has yet to decide. More information will be available “soon”, or so we’re told.

No matter which platform you choose, though, you’ll still have to throw down some cash if you want the additional content not included in any of the packages: ‘Lair of the Shadow Broker’, the ‘Overlord’ and ‘Kasumi’ packs for ME2, and the ‘Leviathan’ DLC for ME3.

Looks like this might have more of a Mass Effect on your wallet than you originally planned. But hey, it’s still cheaper than being a sucker consumer who bought all of the games at launch, as well as all the DLC since.

8 Comments

Posted by Kalen on 02 October 12 at 8:55am

I am sick and f**king tired of being on the crap end of game/dlc releases because I bought a Sony console! I’m at the point of getting rid of it and gaming until I get a new PC, around 2 years from now.
- Posted by 13rym on 02 October 12 at 10:11am
  
  It’s still a shit deal, even for the PC. Overlord and LotSB were some of the best DLC’s for ME2, and both make a reappearance in ME3. Actually, I’m not even sure how you explain Liara’s “position” in ME3 without LotSB. I can’t think of why they would leave this stuff out of what you woud think is an “Ultimate Collection ” kind of thing.
  - Posted by Crichton on 03 October 12 at 11:07am
    
    She just goes,’ oh hey shepard. I took over the shadow broker’ ‘Really?’ ‘Yeah’ ‘Cool’
Posted by Chris on 02 October 12 at 1:57pm

What I want to know is, will the ps3 version come with ME1
Posted by Ring on 02 October 12 at 2:29pm

So in other words, there is literally no point in me buying this. Considering you can buy the three games separately for around $80 and most people already have one or two of them, I don’t see much incentive to get this collection.
Posted by Welf on 02 October 12 at 7:22pm

Fucking Great, they can’t even sell a COMPLETE trilogy and have to sell DLC for it.

Fuck EA. You’re not getting my money.
Posted by NeoPendragon on 02 October 12 at 9:31pm

???
I dont get what the deal is but they cant even make a collection pack right, i figured this would be more in line with a GotY edition with all three games but i guess i was very wrong.. im actually shocked from a business standpoint it makes no sense, this literaly has no appeal to someone who owns the game. I would buy a collection even though i own everything already if it came with a physical copy of all dlc and maybe it could of come with the last of the dlc for ME3 that you get early if you buy it physically then it Really would be an ultimate collection. but its worthless EAwant to make money off of 4 year old dlc
Posted by Salem on 03 October 12 at 11:28am

So has anyone noticed that the picture is from tj laser, space *******?