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Mass Effect 2 - Hands On Preview @ 1Up

by Magerette, 2009-12-01 20:15:47

1Up's Thierry Nguyen takes a gameplay demo featuring a gunship battle from Bioware's Mass Effect 2 for a spin and posts his impressions. It appears to be rather spoilerish and detailed,  so bear that in mind before reading the full article.

Here's an antiseptic and general snip:

Sure, a gunship isn't quite the "It's me versus the Death Star!" moment I'm dreading for ME3, but it's still plenty intimidating...It's also another example of how ME2 follows BioWare's solid tradition of creating intimidating high-level power encounters (see: dragons in both Dragon Age: Origins and Baldur's Gate II, or the badass monks and mages that you go up against in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal)...

...The demo has a lot of the features from the last time I played ME2; features such as improved combat (via tweaked interface and concepts like the thermal clip), the snazzier looking graphics, new enemies, and the "cut-scene triggers." It's just that this takes place at a later point than in my previous demo and therefore shows off more interesting versions of that stuff. (Well, I'm assuming later, but then again, BioWare games tend to have a flexible "go do quests in whatever order you want" mechanic.)

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Mass Effect 2

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360
Release: Released


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