10 Real Endings Hidden In DLC

10. Mass Effect 2

There's good reason that many Mass Effect players were left rather confused by the start of the third game, because it follows on not from Mass Effect 2 but Mass Effect 2's final DLC, Arrival, which released more than a year after the main game.

Arrival was intended to serve as a bridge between the second and third games, and for all intents and purposes feels like the "proper" ending of Mass Effect 2.

Arrival revolves around Commander Shepard attempting to prevent the Reaper invasion on Earth, and in addition to setting the stage for Mass Effect 3, fills in a ton of story gaps that will otherwise confuse anyone who moved straight from "vanilla" Mass Effect 2 to Mass Effect 3.

While certainly not among the very best Mass Effect DLCs, it does feel like Arrival should've either been appended to the end of Mass Effect 2's core campaign, or turned into a genuine prologue at the beginning of Mass Effect 3.