#Mass effect pinnacle station trial
#Mass effect pinnacle station series

Plus, the points aren't actually captured back by the bad guys, you just run from one to the another until they're all captured and hope you did it fast enough. For whatever reason, the enemies would barely attack you while you captured the points, you could literally beat these on Insanity without shooting your gun. There's three or four king of the hill points throughout the levels, and you just have to run to them, stand on each one for about 15 seconds, and move on. The Capture challenges were also incredibly easy. Every couple of seconds you'll hear him say, 'Give 'em hell!' or 'Those med-packs don't come free' and my least favorite, 'There's no award for getting shot the most, Shepard.' Why doesn't the guy just shut up already? I'm trying to fight some serious battles here! For some reason, I was reminded of the game Bully while listening to the captain, not exactly sure why. The captain of the station also constantly chimes in with his lame one-liners throughout every battle. I would have liked it more if I actually had to fight him or if there was more interaction with other challengers. What I didn't like: There's a bit of banter between Shepard and one of the aliens, I'm not sure why they even bothered as once you beat a few of his records, he just gives you a crappy weapon and walks off. I picked up a few Colossus armors in a short time, hopefully those will come in handy for Mass Effect 2. This is actually the coolest part of the DLC if you ask me, if you do win the final challenge, Shepard wins his own vacation home! You can even go there, and while there's actually not much to do, you can buy a random X-level item for 220,000 credits. They really hype this particular mission up too, as they keep asking if you're sure you want to go through with it, and how the safety measures will be turned off, and then there's the big wager.

It's still a basic Survival like stage though, and I never came close to dying. There are tons of bad guys, and you have a few automatic turrets at your disposal that you can turn on to up the carnage level. The final challenge is the most exciting and fun mission though. Survival could also be challenging, but it was never too much trouble to live past the two minute required mark, I often only faced the big bad guys at around five minutes and by that time wasn't really trying.

Hunt was pretty imbalanced, I'll talk about that and Capture below.

#Mass effect pinnacle station trial

I found Time Trial the most fun, the times to beat were very well positioned for an Insanity character, and I had to play the levels multiple times, memorizing where the enemies spawned to take them out in time. They're all rather simple and the maps are more or less ripped right from parts of the game. The four types of challenges are Time Trial, just kill all the bad guys in a set amount of time Hunt, kill bad guys to keep the clock from hitting zero Capture, a simple king of the hill type game and Survival, just live as long as possible. In all, there are 13 total challenges available, with four types of challenges, four new arenas based off of Mass Effect locales, and a final, special challenge. It's an incredible sight, the art direction of the station is truly a marvel. That planet is gorgeous to look at, but turn around and you get to gaze upon a galaxy spanning nebula.

It's tucked away in an asteroid belt near a very large, ringed planet. What I liked: Pinnacle Station opens up a new solar system to explore, and the station itself is in quite a beautiful location. So here's my first opinion on Pinnacle Station played on the Xbox 360 with my level 60 Soldier on Insanity. While more story would have been awesome, more combat that doesn't take place in the same warehouse as all the other big fights is also very welcome. I was one of those gamers that actually enjoyed the combat in the game, especially on the higher difficulties. I honestly don't have anything against arena fighting, and I was just looking for any excuse to put Mass Effect back into my Xbox 360. But sometimes you just have to take what you're given, and Pinnacle Station is the patient fan's reward. This is a bit disappointing considering Mass Effect 2 is probably about six months away and BioWare could have explored that game's future content by introducing some new characters, locations, or even the new alien races.

#Mass effect pinnacle station series

Unlike the first DLC, Bring Down the Sky, Pinnacle Station is not a new set of story-based missions but is instead a series of arena challenges. Pinnacle Station is the second, and probably final downloadable content for Mass Effect.