This is crazy. I instantly bought this DLC without knowing about it. That's how much I love ME2. I had to buy the soundtrack on Itunes out of principle. It's great music, but not exactly something I have listened to while on the go on my Ipod.
I am happy to hear that it's not shovelware, but like others, wouldn't you want ME2 to end on a high note? Overlord and Shadow Brooker were really, really, really, really, really good. Overlord was the most scary/creepy element in all of ME2, and Shadow Brooker added new cool stuff to the base game.
I really expected and hoped The Arrival to be the high finale to what I would call on one of the best PC games ever.
I haven't played it yet, but 1-1,5 hours is really sad. And if they skimped on the VA then double sad
As for Mass Effect 3, I am fearful.. ever since the teaser trailer, I am afraid I will go away dissapointed. Like with Crysis to Crysis 2, with Halo to Halo 2, and so on... once the game goes to real world locations that the player can relate to, I often find it much more difficult to suspend my disbelief, and just go with it, because my mind is constant staggered on all the things that seem or look wrong.
I remember being really bumped out in Halo 2 once you got to earth, in a big African Metropolis that there were no people.. no corpses, no refugees, just vaseline ridden cars. giant big meh. on the artificial ring world, it made sense in the context of what was going on... to be all alone.
Same thing with Crysis. The tropical island is of course a real world location, but most of us dont live on tropical islands, so it was a great stage for a game. they just build a jungle and thats that. but once it goes to new york, you expect all sorts of other s**t, and I think that's also why the graphics have been so dissapointing by some individuals. Its not just console dumpy dumpy, but also the fact that making a game in manhatten is endlessly more complicated than making one on a big jungle playground.
If we're fighting in London in ME3, I expect there to be missing a lot of details, and realism.
It's probably just me. It's also why I have a hard time swallowing the harry potter movies. It does not make sense to me, when mixing the real world with the fantasy, like it's a door you just walk through.