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Amazon's galactic deal of the day: Mass Effect 2

by Alexander Sliwinski on Mar 8th 2010 9:40AM

BioWare's space opera epic, Mass Effect 2, is Amazon's "Deal of the Day." The Xbox 360 version is currently $40, which is $10 cheaper than you'd pick it up at your local Quarian pawn shop. A PC copy is 40 percent off, with a $30 price tag.

At that price, one could pick up Mass Effect 1 and 2 for the regular retail price of the sequel. For those who like their sci-fi soapy and their shooters refined, this is a deal worth going through the Omega 4 Relay for -- see, if you play the game, you'll know what that means.

[Thanks, Russ P!]

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Tags: amazon, bioware, deal-of-the-day, ea, Electronic-Arts, mass-effect, mass-effect-2, Microsoft, rpg, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (41)

Already got one for my computer! I generally accept that I can pay 30 to 40 for a bioware game and feel I get my cash's worth. 30 dollars is fantastic, especially if it comes with some free DLC.

But this is 39.99...

Haha, that's funny. As if there are people out there that don't own Mass Effect 2 yet.

WTF. I've just been informed by my spies that there are, in fact, people out there that do not yet own Mass Effect 2.

You are all horrible people.

Paying 30 instead of 50 doesn't make me a thing other than frugal. 60 is right out!

I couldn't by the Mass Effect 2 later because I had to beat the game atleast 2 or 3 times before BFBC2 and God of War 3 came out...

I own Mass Effect 1, but I could not play very much of it due to the fear of dying from boredom. It's a lot of walking around and very boring dialogue. By the time I got to the action, I was half asleep. It took me a while to figure out that my own gun was killing me by overheating. It was taking 10 shots per enemy with my little pea-shooter. It's insane that you have to take a break from shooting a single enemy to let your weapon cool down or else it kills you. Oh well, maybe I'll give it another try some day.

Anyway, I'm in no hurry to try Mass Effect 2...

@ Gary: Don't bring yourself to like RPG if you've never liked RPGs.

let me just say that the reason I dont have it yet is because I had a hell of a time finding a job, and couldnt justify it. now, with friday having been my first payday at a new job, thank you amazon

Enough excuses! Just accept that you're horrible and move on.

Dear Gamefly,
Please take this rental copy of Mass Effect 2 back, I have found a copy for less money and I can now purchase it, removing the taint of rental from my soul. Thank you.

Why does Thane always get the parties?

Cause he wants to go out with a bang.

i'm so conflicted right now! i want this game but i havent finished the 1st one and GoW3 is coming up not to mention I just started the Sly Cooper series last week. I feel like I can wait though because I'm still not sold on ME1.

I LOVE the first Mass Effect, and with that said I can't stand playing it now that I've played the second.

Regardless of your feelings for the first one, I can assure you the second one is well worth it.

But you should at least finish the main story line. You make some major choices.

Anyone else a little disappointed they timed this sale the DAY before the preorder bonus (10 dollars towards a video game purchase) for FFXIII is activated? Sigh. I need this one cheap because I already have FFXIII and GoWIII preordered. Oh well, hopefully it goes down in price sometime again soon!

arghhh! back to back game purchases that go on sale the week after i buy them. first bayonetta and now ME2. dang you best buy (when i order from amazon) and dang you amazon (when i buy from target).

omg this is a sign. I LOVE Mass Effect but I was waiting for some time because these month work has been hard and I currently don't have much time for games... so I was hoping to buy it on April but this is a sign. I got it right now.

Note to self: don't buy games on opening day. I usually don't but made an exception for ME2 on PC.

Amazon gives yet another reason to never set foot in Gamestop.

You needed another reason?

Sometimes the female GS clerks are cute-ish.

...ish.

That was a girl?

If you give Amazon an endorsement saying it's your favorite store, you'll get another 10% off!!

Please...elaborate.

I'm the Artist Formerly Known as Jesus and Amazon is my favorite store on the extranet.

Now just walk next door and say the same thing.

Hey, everyone! This store discriminates against poor people!

I'm Turles and this is my favorite blog on the internet.

Oh, my name is "Bryan" on here. rats. I'll use that name at another one of my favorite stores on the citadel.

BOUGHT! Hopefully this will last me till SC:C comes out.

i'm hoping someone can help me out here.
I know next to nothing about computers. i have the first mass effect on my 360, but i'm on my 4th system, and the others were fine because they were under warranty, but this one isn't and it is about to go belly up, so i was thinking of getting it for my laptop instead. problem is, i'm not sure my sistem can handle it. i have a real basic dell inspiron 15. The graphics card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. would i be able to play me2 on this system? any help would be appreciated.

"Supported Chipsets:
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better. ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or better.
Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 8100, 8200, 8400, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD3200, and HD 4350 are below minimum system requirements.
Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required."

From the back of the box. No, you will not be able to play it, or at least not well if you manage to get it running.

Thanks for the heads up, Dark. Still gotta get my mass effect 2 fix...

http://www.canyourunit.com

Omega Four Relay
Although I have yet to play the game, I remember that from the trailer...

Which I watched so many times. Best trailer for a vid game so far. Epic music by two steps from hell, gotta love it.

Mr. Alexander Sliwinski, you need to decapitalize "quarian" in the "Quarian pawn shop" part of this article. Play Mass Effect for 5 minutes, you'll see that they NEVER capitalize the first letter of race names in ME. Just like you don't capitalize the d in "dog" or the h in "human" or the c in "cat" or anything else. ME is actually one of the few sci-fi settings that accurately decapitalizes race names. Shame on you for playing both ME1 and ME2 and missing this detail.

Games drop in price so quickly these days. After a month from release, ME2 used was $32 shipped on Ebay. Maybe it's a singleplayer game thing. Strong MP games seem to stay expensive on Ebay for a long time.

Math is fun!

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