Mass Effect 2 ... The sequel to Mass Effect
The game starts off ok you wake up, but it turns out (if you have been following the story) that you died, then they put you back together.. thats kinda cheesy.. but pretty much the place comes under attack, you escape then you mean the Illusive Man, who funded your revival and is one of the main characters throughout the game.
No matter what you do you are forced to go on a mission for him.. (Human colonies are disappearing, and he wants to know why and stop, I won't go into details though)
Pretty much... the game is a lot like the first game and the knights of the old republic games in the way that you travel around the galaxy doing missions and tasks that get you closer to the overall goal. Each character that joins your party has a side mission that you can do, and you have to do over half of them to finish the game.
They don't even bother saying that there are missions or something they give you the extremely cheesy line
"You should keep building up your crew" as an excuse to why you have to build up your crew ...
Most of the main planets are fun to do, some of them are from the first game. They excuse is that they need to keep working on the technology that will get you to your final destination..
Overall its actually fun, the best of the character side quests is probably Tali's quest, or Legion, who is one of the best party members.
Then when you get to the final part most of your party will die, unless you somehow, (hax) knew how to get every upgrade and maximize every party member.... the final part of the game is actually quite impressive and is a great ending.. well until you fight the possibly cheesiest boss you will ever see... (Just wait till you get there... I laughed..) The ending is cool, and you get to go around the galaxy more depending on how you choose to end the game.
The games soundtrack is very interesting, my favorite parts are the Illusive Man tracks.
Most of the planets that you will travel to in the game are creative and interesting, but some of them are complete rip offs of their earlier games and show that they are running out of ideas. (There is a planet that is almost exactly like Teris from the first Knights of the Old Republic game). A notable place is "Afterlife" from that junk planet that wasn't even worth remembering its name, since I can't find any good screenshots of it, here.
The game starts off ok you wake up, but it turns out (if you have been following the story) that you died, then they put you back together.. thats kinda cheesy.. but pretty much the place comes under attack, you escape then you mean the Illusive Man, who funded your revival and is one of the main characters throughout the game.
No matter what you do you are forced to go on a mission for him.. (Human colonies are disappearing, and he wants to know why and stop, I won't go into details though)
Pretty much... the game is a lot like the first game and the knights of the old republic games in the way that you travel around the galaxy doing missions and tasks that get you closer to the overall goal. Each character that joins your party has a side mission that you can do, and you have to do over half of them to finish the game.
They don't even bother saying that there are missions or something they give you the extremely cheesy line
"You should keep building up your crew" as an excuse to why you have to build up your crew ...
Most of the main planets are fun to do, some of them are from the first game. They excuse is that they need to keep working on the technology that will get you to your final destination..
Overall its actually fun, the best of the character side quests is probably Tali's quest, or Legion, who is one of the best party members.
Then when you get to the final part most of your party will die, unless you somehow, (hax) knew how to get every upgrade and maximize every party member.... the final part of the game is actually quite impressive and is a great ending.. well until you fight the possibly cheesiest boss you will ever see... (Just wait till you get there... I laughed..) The ending is cool, and you get to go around the galaxy more depending on how you choose to end the game.
The games soundtrack is very interesting, my favorite parts are the Illusive Man tracks.
Most of the planets that you will travel to in the game are creative and interesting, but some of them are complete rip offs of their earlier games and show that they are running out of ideas. (There is a planet that is almost exactly like Teris from the first Knights of the Old Republic game). A notable place is "Afterlife" from that junk planet that wasn't even worth remembering its name, since I can't find any good screenshots of it, here.
Graphics: 7.5/10 They are hardly improved over the first game, if at all.
Gameplay: 7/10 It is very improved, the fights are actually fun and not annoying and disrupting the story like in the first game. The whole problem with item storage and ammo are fixed also.
Story: 8.5 The Illusive Man is one of my favorite all time video game characters, the story was almost as good and I would have given it a 9 if it weren't for that boss... (since its from Bioware, you can know that the boss in question had a lot to do with the story)
Sound: 7.5/10 The soundtrack to the game is very interesting, its not as ambient as the first one though.
Features: 7/10 After the game you can hang out in the galaxy? Cerberus network, for if you didn't rent the game, (I would recommend for PC more), has lots of free addons and stuff to download...
Overall: 7/10 Mass Effect 2 is one of the best Modern games I have played, but I doubt that I will ever play it again, unless I get it on PC.. It has its bad moments but the main of the game is very good, and extremely good compared to the first games horrible game-play. But still if you want to play this game, you will have to play the first game for it to be any fun or to make any since.
