OXM cover shows familiar face to promote Mass Effect 2 preview
by Xav de Matos 
on May 25th 2009 8:00PM
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:06PM Premature ejaculation man said
His face looks fatter.
But YAY ME2!
But YAY ME2!
Posted: May 26th 2009 3:07PM johnpaul12 said
He looks like dominic purcell...or viktor krom from harry potter
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:06PM The Wicker Man said
Yeah Mass Effect 2!!!
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:06PM MystileArmor said
They managed to make him even uglier then before. Unless I'm mistaken, he's got a lazy left eye now.
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:17PM (Unverified) said
I bet it's sucks when he needs to use a snipe rifle.
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:17PM TheDarkWayne said
I always thought the guy on the box art and the earlier gameplay videos looked better. But then, all my custom characters were either even uglier or looked like they were from a different game than the other characters
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:07PM MyAbsolution said
Maybe its Shepard's son...
he did have snoo snoo with that unisexual alien.
he did have snoo snoo with that unisexual alien.
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:15PM (Unverified) said
The teaser only showed that Cerberus believes that Shepard is dead.
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:33PM (Unverified) said
Man, BioWare seriously needs to hire a new character artist for all their games. They always have such shitty art direction. Well, at least their not as bad as Bethesda. Fallout 3 seriously has some the worst art EVER!
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:37PM iHavePants said
I thought Mass Effect looked great. Uh oh your opinion is no longer fact.
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:40PM (Unverified) said
"Fallout 3 seriously has some the worst art EVER!"
Really? I never found the Mona Lisa under all that rubble...
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Really? I never found the Mona Lisa under all that rubble...
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:40PM TheDarkWayne said
i thought the art direction in general as well as the graphics were great, but most humans faces looked like shit, especially shepard no mattter how hard i customized him
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:45PM (Unverified) said
and you mister, should hire a woman
you just dumped the worst pile of shit i've seen today my friend...and i just visited maddoxs homepage
i can't even start correcting your statement...it's complete and utter bullshit
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you just dumped the worst pile of shit i've seen today my friend...and i just visited maddoxs homepage
i can't even start correcting your statement...it's complete and utter bullshit
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:54PM MystileArmor said
You should live up to your name and just stay silent.
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:31PM flanked said
Did OXM seriously go with the Shepard for their cover art that has either down syndrome or constipation?
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:32PM Slaker117 said
Anyone else think that he looks like Tony Almeida from 24?
http://media.entertainment.sky.com/image/unscaled/2009/1/8/Sky1-24-Day-7-Interview-Carlos-BernardTony-Almeida-Wk-2-Jan09-6.jpg
http://media.entertainment.sky.com/image/unscaled/2009/1/8/Sky1-24-Day-7-Interview-Carlos-BernardTony-Almeida-Wk-2-Jan09-6.jpg
Posted: May 25th 2009 10:25PM (Unverified) said
He kinda looks like 90% of action video game characters. He's the guy from inFamous! No he's the guy from Fracture! No he's the guy from Force Unleashed!
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Posted: May 26th 2009 12:45AM Slaker117 said
I know what you mean with the basic structure that video game characters seem to have, but they seem to share more than just a passing resemblance to me. The general rugged looking military man is common, but details like facial hair and head shape/size match almost perfectly. Hell, you can't see it from the link, but Tony even had that awkward facial expression fairly often this past season.
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:32PM TheDarkWayne said
there was a teaser trailer that had a geth holding his armor and before that there were computer updates that said STATUS: KIA
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:36PM (Unverified) said
yep it's part of ME 1
you know the part at the beginning, where the geth show up for the first time? you can trigger his death at that point
or when you take a ride on the moon, you will eventually find a base....same there: death to shepard
not to mention every other contact with any hostile force in the game: possible death trigger!!!
you know the part at the beginning, where the geth show up for the first time? you can trigger his death at that point
or when you take a ride on the moon, you will eventually find a base....same there: death to shepard
not to mention every other contact with any hostile force in the game: possible death trigger!!!
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:37PM (Unverified) said
So Shepard is Mass Effect's Kenny?
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:47PM (Unverified) said
yeah, like mario is smb's kenny -.-
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:48PM Bubbameister33 said
In real life most human faces do look like shit.
Posted: May 25th 2009 8:51PM (Unverified) said
Not mine. Mine was masterly done by Michelangelo.
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Posted: May 25th 2009 8:55PM MystileArmor said
@ Bubba
Is that what your mother told you to make you feel better?
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Is that what your mother told you to make you feel better?
Posted: May 25th 2009 9:34PM (Unverified) said
At least he isn't as ugly as my custom male from ME1. I made him an angry looking man with blonde hair and blue eyes and named him German Shepard. Good stuff.
Posted: May 25th 2009 9:39PM TheDarkWayne said
my guy was basically young Grand Moff tarkin. Ugh
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Posted: May 25th 2009 9:43PM (Unverified) said
hmmm im pretty sure he lived at the end of the first game. did he get hit by a car on the way to make the 2nd game or something?
Posted: May 25th 2009 9:47PM juggalotusmx said
what happened to the site says coming soon....
Posted: May 26th 2009 1:21AM (Unverified) said
I was using google chrome so I thought it was messing up, like it usuall does with this site. But I wonder.
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Posted: May 25th 2009 9:49PM Anticrawl said
That's not a familiar face to me at all. Who the fuck is that?
Posted: May 26th 2009 12:13AM ybfelix said
wait, isn't this the Johnny guy from GTA4 Lost & Damned?
Posted: May 26th 2009 7:59AM TheDarkWayne said
ha, you're right, looks just like him. I think I'd like Shepard twice as much if he used the kinda vernacular Johnny K did
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Posted: May 26th 2009 1:42AM (Unverified) said
Oh, good. Shepard is not dead. He has a black eye and he appears to be full of rage now.
Posted: May 26th 2009 2:41AM (Unverified) said
I think they are trying to emulate Star Wars Episode III just a bit too much.
Posted: May 26th 2009 4:00AM TacoHell said
Episode 3? Don't you mean Episode 5? Since this is the 2nd game in a trilogy and 5 was the middle movie of the original Star Wars trilogy they have more in common than episode 3. Plus, The Empire Strikes Back will always be better and darker than the whinefest that was Revenge of the Sith. Oh yeah, I went there.
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