In the first part of this article we looked at some of the ways in which Mass Effect may have fallen flat or disappointed. But in part two we plan to set the record straight, Mass Effect 2 is a fantastic game brimming with good ideas and excellent writing. A few mistakes or missteps along the way don’t change that. As with the previous part of the article,...

Feb 19, 2010

Every matured game developer has a niche. Every developer has some aspects they want to incorporate into every title they create. Some companies want to brew games that involve arial combat, like Dark Void, which bore its roots in the Crimson Sky franchise. Other games want to rely heavily on running and gunning, a la Epic Games with their Unreal and Gears of...

Feb 18, 2010

This article is SPOILER-HEAVY, if you’ve yet to play the game, then go buy it and do so immediately. That is, unless you’re a PS3 only kind of person, in which case you should probably go and wallow in your bitter tears (or just replay Uncharted 2). Mass Effect 2 is a big game, in every sense of the word. In terms of content, it’s by most...

Format: PC (version reviewed), Xbox 360 Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: EA Games Developer: Bioware Players: 1 Site: http://masseffect.bioware.com/ Last year Bioware gave us in Dragon Age, what some consider to be one of the best western RPGs of the decade, if not of all time. Dragon Age went back to Bioware’s roots to give us an old-school RPG,...

The videogame market is returning to what loyal customers expect; follow-ups to their favourite games. A long list is slated for 2010, and if Mass Effect 2′s two-million in a week performance is any indication; the situation may stay “recession proof.” “What the industry has learned here is that you are going to make money off your best...