Mass Effect 2 - mindblowingly awesome!

Been playing this game for a while and it's without a doubt the best singleplayer rpg game I've played.

Don't be put of by the RPG part, it's basically missions you can go on depending on the outcome of your actions. Each mission is like a putting the same characters into a whole FPS new style game, every mission is so different it may as well be a new game with the same mechanics. There's almost no grinding for stats, it's all worked into the missions seamlessly. Theres only mining planets for minerals that can get tedious, but you soon get enough that you don't need to do that anymore and then it's all awesomeness.

Apart from that depending on playing as a male or female you pick up team members along the way, a couple of the opposite sex you can woo if you do the right things and get into their pants. If you happen to woo 2 girls for example they WILL find out sooner or later and bitch you out about it. If you go with one sooner or later you will have to choose and that will make the other one pretty much tell you to fuck off for the rest of the game. They also get into some pretty hillarious bitch fights over stupid shit that you have to break up, choose your words wisely when you do that hehe.

Not enough? Well how about your captains chambers having a goddamn fishtank? If you buy fish for it on some mission from a wendor you get nice fishies to look at. Remember to feed the little bastards or one day you enter your room and they are floating at the top belly up Or how about a space hamster?

From the start you can also customize your characters appearance, and I mean REALLY customize.

For example who does this fellow remind you of?

Still working on my Picard character, it's getting there hehe.

It's based on the Unreal 3 engine, I didn't think UE3 could look THIS good. Apart from the massive detailed vegetation it's up there with Crysis warhead. Sure shadows doesn't blur from start to end points and all that, but it looks fucking great for something made on the UE3 engine.

The character and voice acting is also some of the best i've heard and seen in any game, no weak voice acting anywhere.

Another thing is that it's also huge, with tons of shit to explore. I've clocked over 20 hours I think and I'm far from done.

Oh yeah, one of the major characters is Martin fucking Sheen, booyah!

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