BioWare’s award-winning “Bring Down the Sky” add-on content pack for the Xbox 360 edition of Mass Effect carries a price tag of 400 Microsoft Points. But for the upcoming PC release? It’ll be completely free.

Optimized for PC, Bring Down the Sky is the first in a series of planned downloadable content that extends the Mass Effect experience, including over 90 minutes of new gameplay, a deadly Batarian alien race, and an original soundtrack.

The content pack will be available day and date with the retail release of Mass Effect PC, when it hits store shelves on May 28. There’s been no word as to if BioWare will make the pack free to Xbox 360 owners at a later date.

First Downloadable Content Free with Mass Effect PC

Leading video game developer BioWare(TM), a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), has announced that “Bring Down the Sky,” the first piece of downloadable content for the award-winning space epic Mass Effect(TM), will be available for PC gamers to download free(1) of charge when Mass Effect for the PC releases on May 28, 2008 in
North America and June 6, 2008 in Europe.

Fully optimized for the PC, “Bring Down the Sky” is the first in a series of planned downloadable content that will further expand the Mass Effect story and universe. It includes a new uncharted world that introduces the deadly Batarian alien race, approximately 90 minutes of new gameplay and an original soundtrack.

Batarian extremists have hijacked a mobile asteroid station in the Asgard system, setting it on a collision course with the nearby colony world of Terra Nova. Only Commander Shepard can save the millions of innocent civilians before the asteroid completes its deadly descent.

Originally released for the Xbox 360(TM) videogame and entertainment system, “Bring Down the Sky” has received critical acclaim as one of the “must have” downloadable expansion packs. Mass Effect has also received critical acclaim throughout the world with more than 80 awards including Console Game of the Year and Role-Playing Game of the Year.

The “Bring Down the Sky” downloadable content for PC will be available at the launch of Mass Effect for the PC, and will be free of charge to registered BioWare community members.

(1)Requires Mass Effect for the PC

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