Mass Effect 2
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About the Game
Saren and the Sovereign have been defeated and the Citadel has been saved. Depending on players's choices made in the first Mass Effect , humanity may be all that's left of the Citadel Council. Of course, that doesn't keep them from ignoring the former war-hero Shepard who knows that the threat from the Reapers is still real. Instead, they send him or her on a boring mission to find some Geth in the Terminus system.
Story & Setting
In addition, health and shield energy are regenerated automatically if the protagonist or his squadmates avoid being hit for a few seconds. His squadmates don't have different armor anymore, only the protagonist's appearance can be changed by researching new armor parts and putting them together to a full suit in his cabin aboard the Normandy. Side quests can also be found this way and are shown as anomalies on a planet.
Gameplay & Core Systems
Mass Effect 2 is a hybrid of third-person-shooter and role-playing game. After the prologue, where players witnesses the destruction of the original Normandy, he has to create a new character and choose from one of six classes each with its own powers. The decision also influences which weapons players can use during playthrough as only the soldier can wield every weapon in the game. During the course of the game, players and his squad-mates earn experience points by killing enemies, fulfilling missions, and hacking safes in order to get a level up. For each level up between 1-20, two talent points are awarded, from 21 to the maximum level of 30 only one, with which the character's powers can be upgraded in four stages.
Standout Features
- Shepard's: The inevitable happens: a new enemy enters the scene, destroys Shepard's ship, the Normandy, and kills the hero of the galaxy.
- players starts with two companions at his side but can collect up to ten during the course of the game.
- To fight the various kinds of enemies, each class has access to different types of weapons like the sniper rifle and heavy pistol for the infiltrator as well as five different kinds of heavy weapons.
- The weapons now require ammunition which is either dropped by killed enemies or scattered around the level, but there are only two types: one for the heavy weapons and one for all others.
- Heavy weapons like the grenade launcher come with a very limited supply of ammunition but are very powerful even against full-blown mechs.
- players is only able to change the weapons load-out of his team from the small set he will collect during the course of the game.
- The four types of minerals in the game are either found in chests during a mission or collected through a scanning mini-game on the galaxy map.
- To that end not only the dialogue choices are sorted by good, neutral and bad but special dialogue options are available for each path if players has enough points in it that can end a dialogue prematurely in the hero's favor.
Presentation & Atmosphere
Display support includes HDTV 720p, HDTV 1080i, and HDTV 1080p. Audio support includes Dolby Digital.
