- Improved NPC conversation system where Commander Shepard can take matters into your own hands ¿ interrupting or using force to get the answer required.
- The second act of BioWare’s epic sci-fi RPG trilogy continues the story of Commander Shepard and humanity’s first steps onto the galactic stage.
- Integration with the original Mass Effect game allows players to import saved files and contiue play with those files in Mass Effect 2.
- Choose from 19 different weapons, including devastating heavy weapons that can end a battle in seconds.
- New location based damage system allows for targeting of key weak points, blasting off limbs, igniting enemies, or cripple and disable enemy troops.
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The second chapter in the Mass Effect trilogy takes you to the darkest reaches of space, where you must uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of humans across many worlds. Prepare yourself for a suicide mission to save mankind. Travel the galaxy to assemble a team of soldiers and combat specialists, and launch an all-out assault on the heart of enemy territory.Amazon.com Product Description
Mass Effect 2 is the sequel to BioWare’s hit space-based role-playing game (RPG), Mass Effect. A single player adventure, Mass Effect 2 allows players to continue the adventures of the fully customizable series hero Commander Shepard, as y… More >>
After little time of playing this movie game.. Marella say’s this is the best RPG game ever made. Human colonies on many worlds are vanishing, assemble a team, they don’t expect you to survive.. awesomeness.
End of story.
Marella gives this game a solid 5/5.
What a borefest. A lot of anticipation for this game despite not having played the first and boy am I glad that I didnt. This game is like a fallout 3 clone but in SPACE. So much for innovation. Its a typical fps with linear quests that drive the main storyline.
I would consider buyers to be wary of this game and instead shell out the extra bucks for God of war 3 or even uncharted 2(a game that i didnt personally like very much but still found it far more entertaining than this self indulgent piece of crap!)
Having played about 9 hours I can say that so far this ME2 is average at best. Improvements have been made but there’s way too much story telling and very little action. I guess this is what happens when they spend too much money on marketing hype, they got me again. Do yourself a favor and get a REAL game like Bayonetta which totally destroys ME2.
A huge dissappointment. I read someone say this was a Fallout clone, but really, this is a Gears of war clone… without the dark edge and gore. ME2 is a third person shooter set in the same world as ME1. I don’t see how folks are saying this isn’t a shooter… If I wanted to play a shooted I’d play modern warfare.
Now all the characters have 4 skills that level up 4 times, so the character build choices are very limited. RPG fans don’t buy this game. The dialogue is pretty bad. The new 3rd peron view is really annoying and hard to see. If bioware was going to change the game completely they should have advertised as such… at least halo wars told you it wasn’t a FPS. Bioware just said sequel and then produced a poor 3rd person shooter.
Really, this review could have been 1 sentence long “Gears of War clone.” very sad.
Mass Effect (the first one) was an incredible game. There was great depth to the characters and you had a great many choices in developing your character. The battles, while not mind-blowingly difficult, were challenging enough. The main focus of the game was the story and the development of your character, which is exactly how any good RPG should be. ME was not a shooter. It was a RPG with a few shooter elements. ME2 has little in common with the first game, save the main character’s last name and a few cameos by characters we saw (and liked) in the first game.
One of the really cool things about ME1 was ‘new game plus’. Once you played through the game, you could begin a new game – with the same character – and continue to level that character up. That’s gone. Also gone is a decent inventory system. Now, instead of getting to choose from a slew of weapons, you get a select few choices and get to upgrade them. Remember how I mentioned that ME1 focused on the story and character development rather than battle? Well, that is gone as well. All that matters now is battle, and everything else is secondary. Sure, you get a couple of dialogue choices, but nowhere near the number of choices you got in the first game. It’s just shoot, shoot, shoot, duck, shoot, die, shoot, die, shoot… Do you get the picture now? Playing on the lowest difficulty setting is like playing Left 4 Dead 2 on the insanity level. Unless you excel at twitch games, prepare to die and reload. A lot.
Basically, to make a long story short, ME2 is a shooter, which just happens to have a few RPG elements thrown into it (poorly, I might add). The story is secondary to shooting things, which seem to be a much higher level (with better equipment and weapons) than you. So if you like shooters – and enjoy games that raise your blood pressure and make you want to throw your XBox through a wall – you’ll love it. If you’re a RPG fan who enjoyed games like KOTOR, Dragon Age, and ME1, then save your money. I’m sure the BioWare fanboys will tell you this is a lie and that ME2 is “even better” than the first one, and it is up to you whether to believe them or believe me. But as someone who resents paying $60 for a game I truly wanted to love, all I can say is that I am extremely disappointed with BioWare. I was expecting a RPG on the same level as ME1 (or Dragon Age), but instead I ended up with Call of Duty…starring Commander Shepard.
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