Prefabricated warehouses. This is always how I thought about the identical building asset reuse Mass Effect has for a lot of it's planet based structures. I mean it makes sense, space travel and setting up structures is expensive so the practical solution would be for industries to have cheap prefabricated adjustable structures for such a purpose which is why 3 out of 4 of the building you go into in Bring down the Sky are identical and often used equally in the base game. Not a knock on the DLC, just something that always amused me how there is an in game explanation that makes sense if you think about it.

Anyway, this DLC is how the race of the Batarians were introduced to the series. They had previously been mentioned in conversations and the codex but this is where they first appeared. A group of them have taken over an asteroid that was being redirected into a planet's orbit to be mined then used as a base once hollowed out. The Batarian terrorists instead have it set on a crash course with the planet colony Terra Nova intending to kill millions.

Gameplay wise it plays just like any of the uncharted planet exploring missions. The mako is dropped on the asteroid and there are a few areas to explore, some items to collect and a few firefights as Shepard shuts down the thrusters on the asteroid. Essentially if you like Mass Effect, it's more Mass Effect and it blends in well with the main game well enough that at this point you wouldn't even know it was DLC replaying it on the legendary edition remaster as I am.

The big flaw is just that it's so short. I like the story premise and extra lore it introduces there just isn't a lot of meat to it. I finished all content, exploration and side quests in about an hour. It's free content in most collections though so certainly worth playing through.

+ Seeing the Batarians for the first time.
+ More Mass Effect.
+ Blends in well with other content.
+ Free on trilogy and Legendary editions.

- Too short, only about an hour of content.