So I'm Mass Effect fan, I enjoyed first ME but mostly for it's plot, cool characters and awesome locations.... and that's it... the game had few killer-dumb features like riding that funky Mako (I never really liked it) but what bothered me the most was - why oh why this game has quite up to 07' graphics but suddenly when you look at the most important things like uniforms you almost want to barf... pixelated they were at the best. Combat was getting boring towards the end of the game and side quests were unexciting but what the hell
game rocked !
So I've got Mass Effect 2 (right before it I bought that crappy yet powerfull, energy sucker called Super OverClocked GTX 275 - which is the least stable card I've ever seen)
I was shocked and amazed after first 10 minutes of gameplay :eek with 5.1 sound and 42' LCD TV whole prologue was simply astonishing, amazing, awesome and unexpected ;) whole scene was sooo effectively scripted, visuals were soo cool that they beat the crap out of my GTX due to the lack of proper cooling and shader extensive graphics game crashed with BSOD and after restart SpeedFan bubbled about overheated GPU blah blah... It didn't stop me from puting huge fan, used to cool down room in summer, next to my rig
I was impressed with all the improvements done to Combat system also I'm pleased that Mako and strangely boring lift transitions were cut down to simply boring loading screens but that's cool IMHO. Ammunition and research lab are the best additions to the game so far
What I don't like is the fact I can no longer crounch freely... there isn't even key for that or an option ... I was dissapointed with character level up menu, I'm used to be able to 'upgrade' 20 skills instead of just 5 options... not funny.
New Normandy eh ? NICE
but who the hell designed aft section of the ship ??? SR-1 had nice tail with Concorde like central stabilizer wing while SR-2 has those two riddiculously small crap-fins... bad idea... they could've throw them to the bin and add observation deck or something like that instead.
Overally this game is the best so far (in 2010 of course) I like how they improved uniforms, I like new research system, planet exploration, I like heavy guns, I love new combat system and that hot chick Miranda, gameplay and plot is also awesome ! I give this game solid 10/10 from my part
Unfortunately for Polish players (including me) voice acting is poor, we were insulted by cheap EDI voice acting that now sounds like broken down mid 1970 robot :eek while shepard sounds like constantly pissed of genral or something like that... I'll not comment on the rest of the group... fortunatelly there is solution to that in which you just have to replace few lines and one file names from POL to INT so now I have original voices with Polish subtitles
If you played it, share your opinion here
I'll probably add more pros and cons as I proceed with the game ;)