Mass Effect 2 - Preview @ Wired

Wired has whipped up an E3 preview of Mass Effect 2, covering similar material to what we've seen before:

Come for the action, stay for the engrossing story: Say what you will about its shallow take on morality and the occasionally campy stabs at romance, but the original Mass Effect was saturated with lore and excelled at presentation. Conversations became centerpieces, and even the typical dialog tree became interesting thanks to a liveliness evoked by careful camera work and accelerated pacing.

The Mass Effect 2 sequences shown off in the E3 presentation maintained that livelihood. In one segment, an interactive conversation plays out between two characters while the vehicle you’re flying in weaves through heavy traffic. But there’s a new sort of dynamism being folded in as well: an impatient Shephard interrupts a guard mid-sentence, and (with a timely tug on the Xbox 360 controller’s left trigger) shoves him through a plate glass window. Small touches like these won’t single-handedly win over the action-gamer crowd, but they do a great for embellishing the atmosphere.