
The biggest issue is that I never once felt my crew was going to die. Its a bit over the top and has only a few things tying it to the original, but it’s pretty and “epic”. It all ends with a super fight against a giant Terminator. You pick up the cream of the crop of the universe and head off to stop the collectors from terrorizing human colonies while learning that Cerberus isn’t all that bad. The game then forces you to join Cerberus and gallivant off to some new hell hole called Omega that also has the biggest relay in the galaxy. Mass Effect 2 in fact throws a bunch of new people at you from the beginning and hopes that you like them - Martin Sheen being one of them. You are then introduced to Miranda who doesn’t like you and Jacob who does. Thankfully the evil Cerberus comes along and glues Humpty Dumpty back together again. You start off with your ship being blown up with nearly everyone but you alive and well. Its more like the Matrix Reloaded of the series. Mass Effect 2 has been called the Empire Strikes Back of the series. It’s kind of a space age detective story. You go from planet to planet looking for clues and uncover the Reaper plot to destroy the universe. This and some other minor actions allow you to become a Specter and ride through the galaxy as Supercop. The mission ends in betrayal and a beacon tells you about an oncoming threat. You start off as Shepard, some human that has impressed other humans enough to get on a big mission with a Specter. I’m not going to curtail anything so if you haven’t played either for whatever reason, just move along.īest way to start I guess is the storyline. I will caution you that if you haven’t played either game, I will not go easy on you. The effort behind the games are tremendous. Its accomplishments in story telling are hands above many games that I consider good. I’ll start this out with the fact that I can see how Mass Effect is a good game to a lot of people.
