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Review: Mass Effect 2
The strongest element of Mass Effect 2 is the story, which is about a team-building effort to confront an emerging evil in the galaxy. Hundreds of human colonies across the universe are disappearing, and it’s up to Commander Shepard to stop the chaos.
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Mass Effect 2 Armed with Free DLC
BioWare has stocked Dragon Age: Origins with a steady stream of new downloadable content since the dark fantasy role-playing game launched in November. The EA-owned developer has plans of a similar nature with its sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 2, which is due out for the Xbox 360 and PC next week. Today, BioWare announced The Cerberus Network, an in-game channel for delivering free new downloadable content and news for Mass Effect 2.
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Preview: Mass Effect 2
Earlier this week, BioWare gave the press a peek at the first hours of Mass Effect 2, the science-fiction role-playing game due out on January 26 for Xbox 360 and PC.
The first moments of the RPG highlight BioWare’s penchant for plot. And it’s evident from the first button press that the developer listened to complaints about the first game. Mass Effect 2 does a great job of easing gamers into combat, but more importantly it continues to spin a great yarn.
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Interview: BioWare’s Dr. Ray Muzyka
BioWare has been creating Role Playing Games for many years now, but arguably their rise to mainstream fame arrived when the Canadian studio released Mass Effect on the Xbox 360. Playing like an interactive adventure book, gamers could experience a deep and engaging intergalactic story which seemed to fuse elements from Star Wars, Star Trek and Blade Runner together.
Leading the creation process is BioWare’s General Manager, CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Ray Muzyka, who recently attended Electronic Arts’ Winter Showcase to talk about Mass Effect 2, the so-called Empire Strikes Back in the game’s planned trilogy. We chat to Ray about the new faces we’ll see in the sequel, the improvements made over the original Mass Effect and why Ray believes this game is the best that BioWare has ever made.
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Preview: Mass Effect 2
From a bystander’s perspective, it would be easy to mistake Mass Effect 2 as yet another cover-heavy shooter, where all one does is pop out of door frames, blast aliens in the face and progress to the next wave of enemies. And in some ways that’s what it has become – and BioWare is thrilled to bits with the result. We’re also sure that players of the first game will be inclined to agree.
Of course, it is still a role-playing game, and comes with a more targeted and adventurous story to carry it forward into a planned trilogy.