Here is a short version of a cinematic trailer for Bioware’s Mass Effect 2, previewing the full version which comes out on XBOX Live on December 22nd. The first Mass Effect was one of my favorite games of all time, as it was an epic science fiction story placed in action/RPG genre. It was an original world with a lot of different worlds and characters. This time it looks like its going to be even bigger and yes that’s Martin Sheen’s voice in the beginning. Bioware hired a bunch of famous actors to do the voice over work for the game (I’ll be posting the video for that soon).
What did you think of the trailer and were you as big a fan of the first game as I was?
- Dennis
Big fan of the first game? I'll say that I played at least 4 full games with 3 different characters and lost hundres of hours of my life. So yeah, I was a pretty big fan. The trailer is OK – cool, but nothing spectacular. Fortunately, Bioware doesn't really need to do anything special for me to want the game. After playing the first, all the had to do was announce the sequel and I was ready to put down my money for a purchase.
Damn, 4 full games? I don't think I can do more than twice. Mass Effect ranks up there with Fallout 3, Knights of The Old Republic as my favorite action/rpgs ever.
Did u get Dragon Age Origins? It's similar to Mass Effect, but not as good. The combat system is flawed and the characters/story isn't as well developed as ME.
Dennis
Yep, I got DA:O on the PS3 (as I didn't have a working 360 at the time). I've played one full game (Human Warrior – Templar/Champion) and through the the "origin" parts of the other stories. I've got a second game on one of them that I've logged about 20 hours in to (Dalish Elf – Ranger/Duelist). I like ME more than DA:O as well. That's not to say I don't like DA:O – I love it – but ME feels like a better crafted game in all areas.
I already have my limited edition pre-ordered from Gamestop with all the extra goodies that entails. I loved the first game and just finished a new playthrough that I'll be using to start ME2 with. I am very interested in some of the changes and tweaks to the gameplay. It seems gone will be the overheat system for the weapons and instead we BioWare decided on actually making inventory matter. The weapons will still overheat but heat sinks have become something that will have to be replaced in time. I always thought the weapons in the last 1/3 of the game became too overpowered and that's before I even got to using the 'X' level Spectre gear and 'X' level accessories.
I loved the first game as well, it's one of my favorite video games of all time. Not sure if I have time to do a new playthrough before ME2, so probably will use my old character.
I'm interested in seeing the combat system and hope they don't use Dragon Age Origins because that one has many flaws with it.
Dennis
Well, as that 12min gameplay preview showed the combat mechanics looks similar to the first game with a couple new tweaks to them.
You going to embed the video here as well? Seems there's a tab in the GS video that will allow people to embed the video to their site.