Pretty much everything that anybody took even the slightest issue with in Mass Effect 1 has been axed or rebuilt entirely. 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. 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. (Typically, we might start with a breakdown of the individual critic scores, but since every reviewer gave the game a 90/100 or higher, that seems a tad unnecessary.) Differences between the first and second installmentĬritics have identified shooting mechanics, load times, and visuals as among the features that have been improved in the sequel. Let's take a closer look at what game reviewers are saying about Mass Effect 2, to find out exactly why that Metascore is so high. Games with fewer than seven reviews are excluded. In each of the above tables, games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. First, to put the scores for ME2 in perspective, let's see where the game ranks in several different categories:Īll-Time High Scores: Action-RPGs (Consoles Only) (Includes FPS-RPGs)Īll-Time High Scores: Outer Space-Based Computer Games What exactly is so good about Mass Effect 2? That's what we aim to explore here, as we go deeper into the reviews to highlight aspects of the title that the gamer press is excited about. Expected to contend for the title of game of the year (despite its January release date), Mass Effect 2 is so far living up to the hype, collecting stellar reviews on the level of last year's critical darling, Modern Warfare 2 94. The story-driven game revolves around the actions of the player-controlled Commander Shepard, who is sent on a mission to track down the mysterious aliens known as the Collectors, who have been causing entire human colonies to disappear.

The second in BioWare's planned trilogy of action-RPG games set in outer space almost 200 years into the future, Mass Effect 2 ( Xbox 360: 96, PC: 95) finally arrived in stores this week, a little over two years after the first Mass Effect 91 captured the imagination of gamers (and sold over 2 million copies in the process).

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