Today I finally finished playing Mass Effect 2! I actually bought it a couple of months ago and I played a lot, but then I forgot about it until now. Maybe I became a bit tired of it, since I had played through ME1 for my third time right before I started playing ME2. However, now have I finally “completed” the journey and I’m really looking forward to the last game in the trilogy.
Overall I think ME2 is an excellent game – one of the best games I have ever played. I really like the first one too, but this is even better. Bioware have removed most of the boring parts that were in ME1, for an example the vehicle levels and the looting system. They have also made a lot of improvements, like adding ammo to the weapons to make the game more actionish. The story is as always with Bioware’s games fantastic, and I must say that I really love how epic the ending is. The music in the game is also great, especially the music during the last mission and the trance music in the various clubs.
In ME3 I really hope that the choices that were made in ME2 will play a bigger role than those made in ME1 did in ME2. That was kind of a let-down, how little the choices from earlier game really mattered. Like, you had to choose between two characters who you wanted to save, while the other became killed. Then in this game (ME2) you will only meet that person at one occasion, have one talk with him/her and never see him/her again. That choice was supposed to have “great impact”. O’really. However, it was kinda fun to be recognized by people from the first game that I had helped, even if it hadn’t any impact on the story. But in ME2 you will in the end have to make, in my opinion, a great decision that feels will do a lot of difference in ME3. It was also possible to get a lot of your crew members killed, so if we don’t get a new crew again I guess that will make huge difference.
If you haven’t already played through ME2 – do it!
