Comparing Arrival to Mass Effect 2's previous addon, Lair of the Shadow
Broker isn't much of a fair comparison. LOTSB taking the cake with his
equal mix of story and combat, fantastic locations and a vehicle segment
which broke up combat. Arrival discards this with more of a combat
focus and primarily taking place in a single locations, albeit nice
looking, came off a bit hollow, with fights becoming tiresome without
much of a breakup in between them.
When I think about the
story Arrival told, I find it funny that my favorite parts of it were
the beginning and end sections featuring Admiral Hackett, guess it just
shows how awesome Lance Henriksen is.
Another great addition to the addon was it's OST, composed by the team that did the soundtrack for Kasumi's Stolen Memory.
Sad
to see Mass Effect 2 go out this way, but its understandable
considering that BioWare is working away at Mass Effect 3, so for them
to at least give us something was at the very least a fine gesture on
their part.
