Mass Effect 2 - Preview Part 2 @ ActionTrip

Here is the second part to the preview over at ActionTrip that Dhruin reported on earlier. It talks about the ever popular elevator loading screens, dialogue, sex themes, and much more. Here is a a little bit from the preview:

In reference to dialogue, Casey said: "Well, I think it's an improvement over the first Mass Effect for a few reasons. One them is that the technology has improved for how we portray the conversations. You are able to see the characters moving around a lot more, the actual situations are more dramatic, they can walk and talk at the same time. You're in quite a variety of different situations when you're having a conversation. Another subtle change -- you have to think back to when we were designing the first game -- a lot of the dialogue was written before we could really prove to ourselves how good the game would look and how cinematic it would be. Coming from games like KotOR or even Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, where you're essentially writing dialogue for sprites, if you don't write the dialogue, if you don't write the words, then to some degree it didn't happen, do you have to write everything. But we were trying to go for a more movie-like or TV-like quality where an actor can give a response that is unspoken and with a look can tell you everything about how they feel. We had that as a goal, but had to prove to ourselves that we could do it. In ME 1 there were moments like that, when Ashley apologizes for ruining the first mission and getting you hurt and you can say 'No, it's okay,' or you can reprimand her. If you reprimand her, her response is just a look. She looks hurt, like you've hurt her feelings and you feel it as a player. Until we really saw those scenes in the first game, we didn't know that we could pull that off, but now that we have, now we can go ahead and write it much more like it's a movie, with more concise dialogue and with more reliance on the acting performance of the digital actors."