Mass Effect 2 - 2 Million Copies and Other Tidbits

According to Gamasutra, Mass Effect 2 has passed 2 million shipped units (note: shipped, not sold):

BioWare's Mass Effect 2 has shipped 2 million units, says publisher Electronic Arts, which claims the "first blockbuster of 2010" in its announcement today.

"Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010," says BioWare co-founder and general manager Ray Muzyka. "We could not be more proud of the game’s universal acclaim and early commercial success."

Over at Metacritic, their latest Inside the Reviews feature looks at the critical success of ME2, with a Metacritic position of 3rd overall on their X360 charts.  I'm not sure anything useful is discovered but there you go:

Critics have identified shooting mechanics, load times, and visuals as among the features that have been improved in the sequel. Inventory, armor upgrades and experience are simplified this time around (experience is awarded only at the end of each mission), while the first game’s hated vehicular missions have been eliminated altogether. Also, the unique, emotion-driven, real-time "conversation wheel" that allowed extensive user control of dialogue in the first game is back for ME2, with some enhancements.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun writes about the disappointment in getting the default canon instead of his reality because he couldn't import a save, having switched from X360 to PC.  Along comes a repository of saves for people like Alec Meer:

I played through an hour or so more, but my heart wasn’t in it. Particularly, I wanted big’n'mopey alien bruiser Wrex in my party, but in this enforced new reality that wasn’t possible. Fortunately, during a casual browse of our forums I spotted Alexander Norris’ link to the ME Savegame Repository. Which is what it sounds like – a growing collection of saves from the first game, ready for importing into ME2. Pretty much any Shepherd derivation you can think of is in there – paragon, renegade, mixed, male, female, romanced Kaiden, romanced Ashley, romanced Liara, romanced no-one (that’s me – I find videogame sex/snogging scenes so ludicrous and unconvincing that it can be hard to take the game seriously after seeing one, so generally avoid them), killed Wrex, saved Wrex, killed the council, saved the council, and dozens of similar decisions.

I've seen a few complaints about the lack of mouses sensitivity settings, so check out this forum post on the official forums for a potential fix.

...and GameBanshee points to a hotfix for ATI Crossfire users.