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Humans have only been in the intergalactic community for like 20 years but one of the top 3 mercenary outfits was founded by two humans. Doesn't sit with me personally

I like this more than most I guess; Zaeed rules and is one of my very favourite squad members and I like that your choices really do shape something here -- potentially locking yourself out of his loyalty if you're a paragon Shepard or dealing with the renegade hit to really allow him to follow out his plan. in a series full of great voice acting there's not many better performances than Robin Sachs.

Would anyone like a bon bon? R.I.P


I thought Zaeed was kinda cool when I first met him but then I got him back to the ship and this MF starts telling all these cringey stories everytime I look at any object in his musty ass room for more than a second. "Oh that paperclip? I once killed three krogans inside an elevator with that thing for looking at me funny. Didn't even break a sweat. Did I mention how much money I have? (also 6 foot tall by the way)" Shut the fuck up bro your companion mission is boring as hell and you literally join my crew after two dialogue choices outside a parking lot, stop tryna act tough. Why would anyone pick this guy when the top G Grunt is available as a companion.

Talk to a wall for a few minutes and get a free guy. Not exactly thrilling.

Robin Sachs was superb, as he always was.

God, I wish Zaeed was more fleshed-out. He's so charismatically voice acted. His loyalty mission is just okay.

A mission and a companion dlc.
I don't like the guy much but he provides some lore and context on the mercenaries in terminus systems, doesn't drop below usual me2 level of quality.

-for this being sold seperatly on release day.

Mass Effect series Review + Retrospective #2.1: The Price of Revenge

Zaeed: The Price of Revenge is technically the first of ME2’s DLCs/expansions. Included as part of obnoxious online pass “Cerberus Network”, this is essentially a squadmate and his loyalty mission, clearly cut from the main game and put into the free DLC instead.

Zaeed is a neat character, I think having a true honest bastard in your party is rare in itself, but to have him be the founder of one of the gangs you’ll spend half the game fighting is pretty cool. As a character, he is woefully underwritten, having no proper conversations on-board the Normandy, little dialogue throughout main story missions, and all around just being pretty one-note. Though honestly, sometimes it’s enough to have a character just be cool, and Zaeed’s cool. In a game with a massively bloated party, what’s one more?

The loyalty mission itself however is one of the weakest, I think. A blisteringly fast speedrun through a half-dozen rooms fighting the same Blue Suns you’ve probably been fighting for hours. It also features a hilariously black-and-white moral decision. Should Shepard let all the innocent factory works burn to death as they beg for you to save them? Riveting stuff.

Yeah not much to say on this. You’ll probably like Zaeed, he’s cool and fun. Mission itself is super generic and boring but it’s short. It’s free and you’re gonna wind up doing all the loyalty missions anyway, so hardly anything to complain about.

Zaeed is one of the most boring characters in all of the Mass Effect saga

zaeed is the least developed character in the trilogy, it's really just a mercenary and nothing beyond that, but he has some charisma

Zaeed isn't as in-depth as a normal companion is, and the new mission certainly isn't anything amazing, but it's about on par with the rest of the game, and it was free too, so no reason not to play it I suppose.

Wish they did so much more with this dude. Legendary Edition

Zaeed is cool but not as cool as Kasumi, neither is his loyalty mission. It's cool that it can branch depending on going Paragon or Renegade but the drab colours of the planet and same enemies as in the main game let it down a tad. Kasumi's DLC also does this but the samey interiors make it more noticeable and less novel an experience

hes a loose cannon god dammit

I like Zaeed but this dlc is not that good

It is a new mission which will get you loyality from Zaeed and some XP. Zaeed himself gets some backstory, but still remains my least favourite companion and character. He just feels like an average action hero from an average action movie you find on the rummage table at Aldi for 4,99.

Zaeed is a smelly character who is lame but at least the mission for him is quite interesting with an interesting choice. Zaeed still sucks though

I actually really dig Zaeed and the mood he brings to the general group dynamic. He's a badass old hunter that doesn't take anyone's shit, and Bioware does an admirable job to integrate him into the experience as smoothly as possible. His side quests are a travesty, though - you learn almost nothing about him beyond a predictable backstory, and the mission design is weaker than much of the main game. I appreciate the man and the cut of his jib at the end of the day, but I don't look forward to doing his content ever again.


I'm about 90% sure Zaeed is no one's favorite character, but overall it was fine.

Doesn't add much content and I doubt Zaeed is anyone's favourite Mass Effect character but it's free and I can't argue with that. Adds a little bonus content into Mass Effect 3 too.