Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker

Liara T'Soni is tracking down the mysterious Shadow Broker, and no one is safe. She'll do anything to recover the man the Broker kidnapped... and the Shadow Broker's agents will do anything to stop her. Team…

65 7 September 2010

Role-playing (RPG) Action Science fiction

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker is a role-playing (rpg) developed by BioWare Montréal, released 7 September 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker is

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by BioWare Montréal and released in 2010. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker is a downloadable content pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts and Microsoft Game Studios for the 2010 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 2. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on September 7, 2010. It was also included in the PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2, which was released in 2011 by Electronic Arts. Set after the events of the Mass Effect: Redemption comic book, Lair of the Shadow Broker follows the story of information broker Liara T'Soni and her efforts to find an information dealer known as the Shadow Broker.

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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Mass Effect series

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker is the 16th of 48 entries we hold in the Mass Effect series. The next entry was Mass Effect: Genesis in 2011. Its critic score of 65 is 11 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Mass Effect 2 at 96.

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How it was received

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Players rate it 76, 11 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker launched on 7 September 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Pokémon Black Version. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Pokémon Black Version.

Cheats and codes

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