Many players who finished Mass Effect 3 were understandably perturbed (in a bad way) about the game’s ending, which critics and fans alike panned for its failure to properly resolve the threads that BioWare had weaved throughout the entire trilogy.
In April, BioWare announced plans to release a free DLC to address those issues. Titled the Extended Cut DLC, Mass Effect 3 is set to receive an extended ending—one not featured in the original game, that expands upon its characters’ fates and is said to tie things up properly.
The voices of three of the game’s main characters, Tricia Helfer, Lance Henriksen and Raphael Sbarge, have confirmed with G4TV that they’ll be back in the studio with BioWare to record all new lines for the DLC.
“I just did another session with [BioWare]“, Henriksen said. “They were saying there’s a little bit of a problem with the abruptness of the ending. So we did a whole series of things to add to the end of the game, to live up to the quality they’ve been doing.â€
This development suggests that the Extended Cut’s scripts have been finalized, and that the only thing left is for the actors to voice their lines and put the whole thing into quality assurance.
The Extended Cut DLC will be released for free on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this Summer.