Review: Mass Effect 2
This will be my first entry here in a long series of mostly RPG-related articles. I was planning to open up with a review of the RPG genre as a whole and how to define it, but that is taking so long that I’ll have to put it on haitus. A Mass Effect 2 review is already late enough as it is. So here we go…
Get ready for a long review.
WHY TO GET IT ON PC
Mass Effect 2 is available on Xbox 360 and PC. If you played the original Mass Effect on the 360, you probably know that the inventory management was head-bashingly annoying. You had to hold down that little mushroom stick for all its worth to scroll to the bottom of your list of weapons just so you could sell the one on the bottom, then it would jump to the top and you’d have to do it all over again to sell the next one. The PC rectified this somewhat thanks to little tricks like a scrollbar and the mouse. Those problems are gone on both platforms in ME2, and I don’t know of any specific examples in this game since I don’t have the 360 version this time, but if nothing else there’s mouse aiming. Since ME2 now lets you aim for different body parts (headshots, blowing arms off robots, etc.), being able to aim well is important. Finally, one really neat feature on the PC is the fact that it gives you a “code” for each unique Shepard face you generate, which you can save or share with others, in order to recreate that exact face. › Continue reading
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If you are a fan of the BattleTech universe, then you are well aware that the last video game to be released in the series was MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, back in 2002. Mech Assault was released later, but it deviated greatly from the realistic, mech-simulator-feel that the previous MechWarrior games were known for. A new MechWarrior 5 release is in development for the PC and Xbox 360, but for now the best thing available for your MechWarrior fix is without a doubt the long-awaited mod for Crysis – MechWarrior: Living Legends.
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