Mass Effect 3: Citadel

[fistfulofmetal]

I swore I would never touch another piece of Mass Effect content after 3 kicked me in the nuts.

I am very pleased to say that ME3: Citadel is probably one of the best piece of Mass Effect content to date. It's better than ALL of ME3. It has some amazing story moments, fleshes out key ME backstory, has plenty of great character moments, it's FUNNY and SELF AWARE and DOESN'T TAKE ITSELF SUPER SERIOUSLY.

The DLC took me maybe around 4 or 5 hours total to complete. The first 3rd is combat heavy and goes through a plot to kill Shepard while he's on shore leave on the Citadel. The plot is so good in this section. It's tightly written to span an hour to hour and a half chunk of time and that works far better than anything in ME3. After you finish that you spend the rest of the time walking around new parts of the Citadel and hanging around with characters from all 3 games. You pretty much get 1 or 2 or sometimes 3 specialized character vignettes... depending on who you have alive. My favorite aspect of ME was always talking with my squad mates, just hearing what they have to say. Citadel does this damned well. You get some really great scenes out of these.

Citadel also manages to take the RENEGADE/PARAGON system and do something legitimately cool. Well, cool may not be the right word but it's different.

If you want some FUN Mass Effect content that isn't UP IT'S OWN ASS and USES IT'S CHARACTERS correctly, BUY THIS.

It's FANTASTIC.

[fistfulofmetal]

Thanks to this DLC I actually KIND OF want to get From Ashes to get the extra character. However I am TOTALLY NOT touching Leviathan or Omega because FUCK the ME3 continuity.

[fistfulofmetal]

In my head Mass Effect 3: Citadel has been retconned as the OFFICIAL Mass Effect 3 story.

and HOLY SHIT I forgot there's totally a musical number in this.

[Stoney Mason]

I liked Mass Effect 3 but I refused to buy any of the extra content for it. It just doesn't make sense to me. It was alright when I knew there was another game coming with these same characters so it made sense to continue with the extra DLC but it just doesn't motivate me in this case when I know the end of the story.

[fistfulofmetal]

I liked Mass Effect 3 but I refused to buy any of the extra content for it. It just doesn't make sense to me. It was alright when I knew there was another game coming with these same characters so it made sense to continue with the extra DLC but it just doesn't motivate me in this case when I know the end of the story.

BUY this DLC. Forget ALL about the continuity. Play it like it's completely divorced from it all. It doesn't work exactly but it's WORTH IT.

[Stoney Mason]

I liked Mass Effect 3 but I refused to buy any of the extra content for it. It just doesn't make sense to me. It was alright when I knew there was another game coming with these same characters so it made sense to continue with the extra DLC but it just doesn't motivate me in this case when I know the end of the story.

BUY this DLC. Forget ALL about the continuity. Play it like it's completely divorced from it all. It doesn't work exactly but it's WORTH IT.

I'll wait for a sale in the future then and pick it up.

[fistfulofmetal]

Here's a sneak peak that tells you the kind of tone we're working with here in this DLC:

[Positive Touch]

the leviathan dlc was fine because it had alright combat scenarios and it expanded on the backstory. omega sucked because it had repetitive combat and added nothing to the story. this sounds good but I really don't wanna spend 15 fuckin dollars on it right now.

[G The Resurrected]

Actually omega did add a lot of stuff, but only if you guys cared to look at your war assets and read the additional logs.

I can't wait to play Citadel sometime soon. I've not played Leviathan but heard I should play it later in the game.

[tiesto]

Leviathan kinda disappointed me since I thought you'd get to do cool shit in the underwater suit. Instead of just walking forward for 3 minutes. I need to get this and Omega, since I've played through every other DLC for the whole series up to this point, why stop now?

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-mass-effect-3-citadel/2300-7127/