Mass Effect 2 is Empire Strikes Back: totally dark, broody

by Griffin McElroy on May 20th 2009 5:30PM

You've probably already made this inference after viewing the demise-filled teaser trailer (or last week's E3 sneak peek), but BioWare's second space opera installment, Mass Effect 2, is going to be a downer. Much like The Empire Strikes Back (the angsty middle child in the Star Wars trilogy), ME 2 will be the series' "dark act," according to producer Casey Hudson, who sees the game as "an opportunity to really explore the tougher, more brutal parts of the universe."

Hudson went on to describe the themes of the Mass Effect trilogy's story arc, explaining, "In the first act you put a guy in the tree, in the second act you throw rocks at him, and in the third act you get him down." And how do you get the guy out of the tree? With a really slow elevator, of course!

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Tags: bioware, mass-effect, mass-effect-2, Microsoft, rpg, star-wars, the-empire-strikes-back, trilogy, Xbox-360

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It takes a special kind of person, especially a 23 year old, to keep coming back to a website to troll despite being banned god knows how many times. You have to be especially screwed up in the head for that to happen. Your trolling doesn't do anything, you are not saying anything special, your not preaching the holy gospel. Your not going to convince anything to anybody. Just go and play your Xbox 360, trolling here just gives you less time to do that so I guess the Sony fanboys are winning. : P

Ironically, you are the holier than thou fanboy with a unique complex.

I'm just wondering why do you dislike the PC, PC gaming? Microsoft has a nice stake in it, why hate it?

Goodnight, I'm Chin-Poh if you didn't know!

Alien sex and star wars references aside, is anyone excited about the expansion of the combat system? When I first heard of ME I ignored it and put it aside because of 3 simple letters R P and G which back in the ps1 days I played FFVII and didnt touch another since (not my thing) but this game is so balenced with a good amound of custom weaponry (wouldve been better with more variety rather than 10 models of a few mods) and theyre looking at expanding this with what looks like a heavy weapon class from the trialer hopefully meaning we get more of the bigger enemies at the start and huge enemies at the end. Also these geth 2.0 look a little less intimidating now but im hoping everything they can do we can (in proportion) such as hop over cover.

PS: Admiral Akbar Cerial!

PC gaming has been "dying" since the NES era, buddy.

Oh, wait, no no no. Sorry, I was confusing "confused short sighted deluded hype" with "facts". Turns out that the "impending death" of the PC gaming platform over the last few decades has actually spawned a ton of imitation from consoles while PC gaming continues to thrive. Ahhhh, facts. They're so delicious.

Also, funny that you have an issue with DRM....but you like the idea of "exclusivity"? Hurm?

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