Mass Effect series Review + Retrospective #2.1: The Price of Revenge
Zaeed: The Price of Revenge is technically the first of ME2’s DLCs/expansions. Included as part of obnoxious online pass “Cerberus Network”, this is essentially a squadmate and his loyalty mission, clearly cut from the main game and put into the free DLC instead.
Zaeed is a neat character, I think having a true honest bastard in your party is rare in itself, but to have him be the founder of one of the gangs you’ll spend half the game fighting is pretty cool. As a character, he is woefully underwritten, having no proper conversations on-board the Normandy, little dialogue throughout main story missions, and all around just being pretty one-note. Though honestly, sometimes it’s enough to have a character just be cool, and Zaeed’s cool. In a game with a massively bloated party, what’s one more?
The loyalty mission itself however is one of the weakest, I think. A blisteringly fast speedrun through a half-dozen rooms fighting the same Blue Suns you’ve probably been fighting for hours. It also features a hilariously black-and-white moral decision. Should Shepard let all the innocent factory works burn to death as they beg for you to save them? Riveting stuff.
Yeah not much to say on this. You’ll probably like Zaeed, he’s cool and fun. Mission itself is super generic and boring but it’s short. It’s free and you’re gonna wind up doing all the loyalty missions anyway, so hardly anything to complain about.
Zaeed: The Price of Revenge is technically the first of ME2’s DLCs/expansions. Included as part of obnoxious online pass “Cerberus Network”, this is essentially a squadmate and his loyalty mission, clearly cut from the main game and put into the free DLC instead.
Zaeed is a neat character, I think having a true honest bastard in your party is rare in itself, but to have him be the founder of one of the gangs you’ll spend half the game fighting is pretty cool. As a character, he is woefully underwritten, having no proper conversations on-board the Normandy, little dialogue throughout main story missions, and all around just being pretty one-note. Though honestly, sometimes it’s enough to have a character just be cool, and Zaeed’s cool. In a game with a massively bloated party, what’s one more?
The loyalty mission itself however is one of the weakest, I think. A blisteringly fast speedrun through a half-dozen rooms fighting the same Blue Suns you’ve probably been fighting for hours. It also features a hilariously black-and-white moral decision. Should Shepard let all the innocent factory works burn to death as they beg for you to save them? Riveting stuff.
Yeah not much to say on this. You’ll probably like Zaeed, he’s cool and fun. Mission itself is super generic and boring but it’s short. It’s free and you’re gonna wind up doing all the loyalty missions anyway, so hardly anything to complain about.