Games like Mass Effect 2 don't come around often enough. Look at any aspect and you can be sure it's great. It's incredibly personal while still retaining a sense of epic sweeping scale. The combat and mission design are outstanding. The visuals, voice acting, soundtrack, and direction are miles ahead of the competition.
Perhaps most impressively, Mass Effect 2 manages to fulfill its incredible ambition while only suffering from very few technical hiccups. The only real caveat I should mention is that some of the revelations and plot twists won't be quite as powerful if you haven't played Ma...
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Feb 11, 2010 - On the most romantic day of the year, a part of our minds will probably be thinking about the virtual relationships we've been cultivating with our new favorite game characters. Creepy? Maybe. But we're pretty sure we're not alone.
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Feb 8, 2010 - During Electronic Arts' third quarter fiscal investor call this afternoon, chief operating officer John Schappert teased Mass Effect fans with something big for early 2011 when discussing the company's upcoming plans.
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Contrarian Corner takes a critical look at recently-released games. The average videogame review tends to treat a game as an objective product, evaluating its merits based on a series of frequently technical categories, like sound, framerate, gamepla...
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Feb 7, 2010 - Some players may have to start fresh when they break open a copy of Mass Effect 3. BioWare producer Casey Hudson explains that certain end sequences of your Mass Effect 2 playthrough could result in having to ditch your save file.
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Feb 5, 2010 - How do you feel about Intergalactic Censorship?
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About this Game
Once again stepping into the role of the heroic Commander Shepard, gamers command their crew on a suicide mission in space. Players must assemble their squad from amongst the galaxy's most powerful mystics, geniuses, and convicts and lead them on a suicide mission to discover why humans are vanishing from the galaxy. The success of the mission hinges on the squad recruited and their loyalty to the mission. Shepard's future depends on it.
Release Date: January 26, 2010
MSRP: $49.99
Also on: X360
ESRB: M
