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Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky

Bring Down the Sky is the first DLC for Mass Effect. The DLC takes place in the Asgard system, where an asteroid has been hijacked and sent on a collision course with the human colony of Terra Nova.

50 11 March 2008

Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky is a role-playing (rpg) developed by BioWare, released 11 March 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky is

Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by BioWare and released in 2008. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Bring Down the Sky is the first DLC for Mass Effect. The DLC takes place in the Asgard system, where an asteroid has been hijacked and sent on a collision course with the human colony of Terra Nova.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mass Effect series

Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky is the fourth of 48 entries we hold in the Mass Effect series. The next entry was Mass Effect Galaxy in 2009. Its critic score of 50 is 26 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Mass Effect 2 at 96.

See all 48 Mass Effect games in release order →

How it was received

Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky launched on 11 March 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Condemned 2: Bloodshot and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.

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When did Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky come out?
Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky was released on 11 March 2008 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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