by Allegionary
© 2010 Alex Hilton
Have you ever wanted to work with a thief in one of their heists?
How many movies make it look slick and cool and we’d all like to be rich, right? In Mass Effect 2: Kasumi Stolen Memory you can do just that- well pretend anyway.
Kasumi Stolen Memory is a downloadable expansion pack for Mass Effect 2 that was released on April 6 this year and costs 560 Microsoft Points. Mass Effect 2 is developed by Bioware and was published by Electronic Arts (EA) on January 28 2010.
In the heist you help Kasumi get back her partner’s graybox, which is where he stores all his memory and is also where he hid some important data, from a criminal millionaire, Donovan Hock. You first have to go to the Citadel and talk to an advertisement terminal which she has hacked into which would look weird to an average person but Shepard isn’t your average person.
After that you have to go to a party that Hock has hosted and steal the graybox. This is where you get to see the thief at work. You have to get DNA for the DNA scanner, you have to cut the power to the vault to disable the shield around it and you have to get Hock’s voice for the voice recogniser.
The final thing you have to do after getting the graybox and examining Hock’s private collection of antiquities including Michelangelo’s David, is to escape from Hock’s many guards.
The only problem with this pack is that it is too short.
The extras that you get out of your 560 Microsoft Points beside the quest are: a new gun, the M-12 Locust SMG which is a sub-machine gun for your squad, a new casual outfit (the one you wore to the party), a new squad member, Kasumi, and another achievement that adds to your Gamerscore.
After you recruit Kasumi you can visit her in the port observatory room and examine her things to hear the story behind them. For example when you examine the painting you hear that it was painted by a little girl that she rescued in a mission. The back-stories of the items are interesting but don’t add to the main story.
The expansion pack is short but sweet. After playing through the quest and examining your new items you feel let down because that is all that you get from the downloadable content.
Still, if you are a big Mass Effect fan like me then the item is probably just worth the 560 Microsoft Points that it is valued at….just.
“7.5/10
© 2010 Alex Hilton
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