Mass Effect 3 DLC: free Earth pack hits Xbox Live

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Mass Effect 3's Earth DLC pack is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace, adding new classes, guns and maps. It's as free as fresh air.
Download it here, after you've picked over the press release below. You might also want to sift through this article, which contains leaked details as to class make-up and powers.



Three New Maps - With the fate of the galaxy at stake, Earth's military efforts have concentrated on three strategic locations.

Defend Firebase Rio, home to the N7 training facility, along with Firebase Vancouver and Firebase London in the last stand for mankind.

New Array of Playable N7 Characters - Step into the boots of the Alliance's most elite military units with the N7 Demolisher Engineer, N7 Destroyer Soldier, N7 Fury Adept, N7 Sentinel Paladin, N7 Shadow Infiltrator and N7 Slayer Vanguard.

New Powerful and Unique Weapons - Lay waste to the enemy by unlocking the N7 Piranha Shotgun, N7 Typhoon Assault Rifle and Acolyte Pistol.

New Powerful Upgrades - Outfit your weapons with 12 new modifications and fortify your gear with 11 unique upgrades to defeat even the toughest foes.

New 'Platinum' Difficulty - Conquer bronze in your sleep? Take down Silver with one hand? Beat Gold without breaking a sweat? Then grab your friends and test your skills on the brand-new Platinum difficulty.

New In-Mission Objective - Randomly occurring during waves 3, 6 and 10, this new objective will challenge teams to keep a targeted agent alive by protecting and escorting them to a designated extraction zone on each map.

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