Mass Effect 2 – Complete.
Overall impressions are that it was a good game, albeit weaker than the first game. Story line and game mechanics were less impressive this time around, but it does set up the third and final game in the trilogy fairly well. Unless you managed to get Shepherd killed off at the end. God knows how that save game will play out in part 3…
But some parts of the game were infuriatingly stupid.
Gas giants orbiting their sun at half the distance Earth orbits the sun (aka an Astronomical Unit, or au) once every 25 days? Seriously? That thing must be whipping round its sun so feckin fast that it’s egg shaped. Not to mention temperature and the fact that its atmosphere should have boiled away almost instantly…
One among a slew of niggles that, while certainly not enough to ruin the game, certainly went some way towards taking the sheen off of the experience.
Next on the list to complete is Dragon Age. Bioware’s other big recent release. There are niggles there as well, more related to the game’s DLC. But that’s another post for another day…
And yes, I have been making more of an effort to post recently, as you have no doubt noticed. Made a fair bit easier by installing a WordPress application on my HTC Hero, which means I can write posts from anywhere at any time.