There are no words. This trailer for Mass Effect 2 -- which just happens to be the expanded edition of the trailer teased during IGN's pre-VGA show -- is just completely radical. This particular video is more story-driven than the previous pieces of marketing for the game, giving a bit of backstory into the team Shepard has assembled, then showing that team going to war against a gigantic, sinister spacecraft.
We like to think of ourselves as fans of the holiday season, but we'd be more than happy to skip the next couple of weeks, just so we could be that much closer to Mass Effect 2's January 26 release date.
Mass Effect 2 cinematic trailer makes us want to skip Christmas
by Griffin McElroy 
on Dec 23rd 2009 12:00PM
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:02PM (Unverified) said
Fuck I need a Delorian so i can travel to the future to get this and mass effect 3.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:06PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
****************SPOILER ALERT****************
This game is going to be fucking RIDICULOUS.
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This game is going to be fucking RIDICULOUS.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:11PM MarkezJM said
Oh c'mon dude what the fuck. Thanks for ruining this shit. I thought this was supposed to be a serious sci-fi drama, but now you're telling me it's going to be a comedy? Faaaaaaaaaaack. Well I guess it's better this way, instead of buying it and only finding out later that Shepard is a galactic connoisseur of cheap gags like fake vomit and whoopee cushions.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:12PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
Nah man, I already got you covered on the space-opera-comedy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUnoOIikE0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUnoOIikE0
Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:14PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 2:34PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
I remember not being able to figure out the swamp part in Space Quest II for WEEKS. Back in those days, we didn't have Gamefaqs or even the bloody Internet to help us. Don't even get me started on King's Quest IV...
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Posted: Dec 24th 2009 2:11PM nycjunglist said
HA! Coffee shop biotics are no match for our Refresh button-shaped weapons.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 9:19PM usualyksint said
Mass Effect 2 is the only prescription that can save me now
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:11PM Johnny Locke said
What was that place where Grunt is, Sonnay Tu Chanka? That place looks fucking amazing, GOTY 2010-(1/0)(INFINITY).
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:19PM MowDownJoe said
"Sunny" was just a word to describe "Tu'chunga" (or however it's spelled).
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Posted: Dec 24th 2009 4:52PM (Unverified) said
Tuchanka is the Krogan Homeworld. Sunny is an ironic adjective because the place is a hellhole.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:11PM PoisonedAl said
If they make the combat as fun as it looks there and keep the RP bits (maybe trim the dialogue a bit), I will be a happy bunny.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:13PM Dirty said
Im gonna wait and watch this after work on my TV. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/offers/0bbf0018-0000-4000-8000-0000454108ce?cid=SLink
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:15PM The Commenter Formerly Known as said
Man this game keeps looking better and better. I love it. But not to start a flame war but this was the only reason I ended up getting a 360, was just to play the first one and I'm happy I did. I like to play multiplatform games on the PS3 but I have a feeling that on Jan 26 I'm going have to dust off my 360. I cant wait.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:16PM (Unverified) said
Again, is it possible to see this game on PS3?
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:26PM The Commenter Formerly Known as said
Yeah I would like to see it for the PS3 so my buddies without 360's can play it. It wouldn't be any good from me because of the 20 plus hours I put into the first one on the 360 and I would like to see my story continue from where I left off. But it will be cool to share the entertainment, everyone should have a chance to play this game.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 1:06PM Pure Black World Tendency said
Heh, my PC can barely run Doom 3 on the lowest settings, so no luck there. I hope it ends up on the PS3 too eventually.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:16PM D dogg said
For anyone who's played Mass Effect and Dragonage, I think we can all agree that Mass Effect 2, based on its lineage, is going to be worthy of GoTY for 2010.
Mass Effect itself was amazing - Dragonage blew me away with it's epic storytelling.
I'm expecting Mass Effect 2 to be to RPG genre what Bayonetta is to the action genre.
(translation: Very, VERY high hopes and expectations)
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Mass Effect itself was amazing - Dragonage blew me away with it's epic storytelling.
I'm expecting Mass Effect 2 to be to RPG genre what Bayonetta is to the action genre.
(translation: Very, VERY high hopes and expectations)
Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:26PM Uphillbothways said
...black holes and revelations....
I hope I've gotten that song stuck in someone's head now.
FYI: Muse - Starlight
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I hope I've gotten that song stuck in someone's head now.
FYI: Muse - Starlight
Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 1:16PM (Unverified) said
Nice, Drew. Good song. And yeah, totally stuck in my head now.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 7:51PM CaramelZappa said
@Drew
Next time could you choose a song from a better album? Thanks.
I'm not usually one to play RPG's but from what I've seen Mass Effect was one of the few that had decent animations and voice acting. For me, games like Fallout 3 are impossible to get into with their soulless voice acting and rigid, awful animations. But Bioware knows how to bring production value into the RPG genre, and I think that's why they stand out over any other RPG developer. I doubt anyone else is going to come close to Mass Effect 2 next year, at least in that genre.
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Next time could you choose a song from a better album? Thanks.
I'm not usually one to play RPG's but from what I've seen Mass Effect was one of the few that had decent animations and voice acting. For me, games like Fallout 3 are impossible to get into with their soulless voice acting and rigid, awful animations. But Bioware knows how to bring production value into the RPG genre, and I think that's why they stand out over any other RPG developer. I doubt anyone else is going to come close to Mass Effect 2 next year, at least in that genre.
Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:17PM WolfForager said
Playing ME1 atm, this trailer has put me in the mood to do an all nighter tonight and finish it :D
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:29PM Hivetyrant said
haha I'm doing the exact same thing, I'm flying off to Ilos as we speak!
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:17PM Sidebuster said
I wish combat in games would play out like that. Although I saw the real game play and it still looks damn good.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 1:19PM (Unverified) said
Other than the flipping around and diving over shit, I've had some battles pretty similar to that in ME. So. Fucking. Epic.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 1:30PM (Unverified) said
Yep, in Mass Effect it is awesome getting a team mate to lift a charging Krogan Battlemaster in the air, another member blasting them with their shotgun, etc... Battles like that do happen.
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Posted: Dec 23rd 2009 12:19PM Johnny Locke said
Fuck those babes unless you got some Tali or maybe an Asari then you ain't shit.
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