Sunday, September 13, 2009

Xbox 360 and Mass Effect 2

By Taylor Sanders

Remember Xbox 360's Mass Effect, called the best game of 2007, perhaps the best RPG in the games' history? The first Mass Effect left us all wanting more, with some of the best characters and the best endings ever. The characters themselves were multifaceted and stayed in your mind long after the game was done. Games like Mass Effect do increase sales for Xbox 360, and it certainly has earned Bioware a lot of cash, to be sure.

If you have played Mass Effect on Xbox recently, then you probably still have your saved game. To those that have played it when it was first released, loved everything about it and deleted the saved game, you would not be too happy when you know that you will be missing out on a very big treat.

To those that still have the first Mass Effect saved file, hang on to it until early next year when Mass Effect 2 is released for the Xbox 360. Mass Effect 2 will import your Mass Effect character saved game and you will start Mass Effect 2 at the same point you finished the first Mass Effect.

However, that's not what really is important here. What's really important is that your character will retain his or her moral standing, so that the choices you made in the first game will carry right on over into this second incarnation. The choices will affect the second game, if you save your file, so that in essence you're playing one long game.

Have you seen the teaser trailer for Mass Effect 2? You probably remember when the credits rolled at the end of the first Mass Effect. In the trailer, though, we get a close-up of a familiar armor suit, with "N7" emblazoned on the chest. Ah-ha, it's Shepherd, the main character.

Oops, no, it's not. Instead, a Geth soldier is wearing the suit, and we find out that Shepherd was killed in action. However, as the saying goes, "accounts of Shepherd's death were greatly exaggerated," and he's right back in Mass Effect 2, facing an entirely new threat.

There are a few things that you need to know about Mass Effect 2. We all know about the multiple endings in first Mass Effect. Mass Effect 2 has its share of multiple endings, too. Your primary mission is a suicide mission, and you are warned about this at the beginning of the game. Shepherd knows this and so does this team.

You and your entire team can die or you can live. This all depends on the decisions you make throughout the game, and these decisions decide your outcome. However, if your character dies in Mass Effect 2, his death is permanent, which means you will be able to play him Mass Effect 3.

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