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The role playing genre has fathered many children with its lover ‘Action Games’ in the recent past, and the Mass Effect franchise is a testament to their complete disregard towards contraception. Thankfully, for all of us RPG fans, the Mass Effect franchise isn’t like one of the genre’s dim-witted love children (read: Fable). In fact, Mass Effect managed to find the perfect balance, and appealed to gamers that loved their Action-RPGs light on role playing and high on action, as well as the audience that loves their RPGs deep and full of choices.__STARTQUOTE__BioWare gave Mass Effect 2 the treatment every smart developer should give their star franchise – they took all that was great about the first, and built on that.__ENDQUOTE__The two sides of the balancing act they pulled off, consists of on one side – enough choices in its dialog-heavy storyline to earn it the title of ‘Galactic Soap Opera’ , and on the other hand – ample alien on alien action (where both- fighting and love-making are concerned) to appeal to all the action games out there. To top it up, developer ‘BioWare’ impressed us with a brilliant sequel that outdoes the first game in every way! That’s right – I mean it when I say ‘in every way’. If protagonist Shepard’s posse cried in the last game, they cry twice as hard in the sequel, if they whined in the first game, they whine twice as hard in the sequel and if they did the naughty in the first game, they did it harder this time around too! BioWare gave Mass Effect 2 the treatment every smart developer should give their star franchise – they took all that was great about the first, and built on that. Before I go on to tell you about what those strengths are, let me brief you on the storyline. The first game saw Shepard shepherding (see what I did there?) the galactic Council into a war against an ancient alien force – the Reapers – that was hell bent on ending all sentient life. The second game starts off when the galaxy’s hero has his ship torn apart by a mysterious alien ship. Damn those aliens! On the down side, they kill him. On the up side, at least they didn’t anal probe him. |
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