How does one man get the job of being a Spectre? I have no clue, but you get your own ship, hot aliens, sweet armor and an arsenal of weapons at your disposal. I would definitely take the job, but it comes at a price, you thought it was going to be easy? You have to search through the galaxy for the best of the best to take on a new adversary.

For those of you that didn’t play the first game, you’re forgiven. You will be caught up to speed in the sequel. As Sheppard, you start off the game off on the Normandy, your galactic space ship, however things go wrong when you are ambushed. The situation goes from bad to OMFG when your ship becomes Swiss cheese and everyone has to bail. As you stay behind to make sure people get off it does not end well when you get blown out into space and your suit fails causing you to freeze; then burn into the planet’s atmosphere…yes not a pleasant thought. Two years later, you find out that you died and were put back together like a jigsaw puzzle through the miracle of the “Lazarus Project”.

Since you got ripped to pieces the game will go into a customize character mode, but when you start out you can be male, female or import your saved file from your finished game in ME1. The character custom menu is pretty simplistic where you change facial features, first name, and background. The next step is to choose your classification and there are six to choose from. You can choose Vanguard, Adepth, Soldier, Sentinel, Engineer and Infiltrator. A quick description of some of my favorite classes, Vanguard is a close range attack class, where you can use a charged bio moves sending your body flying into an enemy. The Infiltrator, gives you the ultimate
sniper ability with a stealth feature, which will cause you not to heal but great to get around enemies without being seen. The Sentinel, is your all around ability class with high grade armor that shoots a pulse when severe damage is inflicted.

One of the great things that Bioware always gives the audience is excellent stories to follow and bringing the characters to a more believable likeness to the real world. The whole idea is choice on how you want to play the game either as a hero or more of a rogue. Developing a relationship with your crew members will unlock special abilities within them that will benefit in all of the combat that you will be facing. In some cases it will bring you to nice romantic moods depending on your taste in characters.

The whole idea behind Mass Effect, is choice, you can choose to play the game as a hero or a rogue, its really all up to your preference. Developing a relationship with your crew members will unlock special abilities within them that will benefit you in combat. In some cases it will bring nice romantic relations depending on your taste in characters.

Speaking in terms of your crew members, Mass Effect 2 involves a nice A.I co-op feature that makes you feel as if you are playing with another human. It all depends on your leveling up abilities and how you interact with your team mates. The team that you choose will work with you in infiltration combat where they will play decoy so you and your crew can flank the enemy. If you want to use their powers then going into the menu system will give you options to attack with whatever arsenal or bi-otics they have acquired. Don’t feel bad that there is no multi-player because not every game needs it. Be prepared to spend 20 plus hours in Mass Effect 2 because of all the different story modes, there is many side quests.

There is a lot good to say about Mass Effect 2 but there are some down points. The dialogue at times can be a bit dry and sometimes the face mechanics don’t do justice to the dialogue. Soundtrack is a bit drowned out and spacey, but you can upload your own soundtrack. The load times will have you making dinner and coming back still waiting, so my suggestion is to download the game to your HDD to shave some of the loading times down.

There is massive replay value, great AI system, a huge choice system, great classes to choose from, great weapons and upgrades plus you get to fly all over the universe being the Spectre. Mass Effect 2 is out now for Xbox 360 and PC, so pick up the title and thanks for reading my review. My final verdict is: BUY.

As always stay frosty gamers and happy galactic hunting!