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Boss Battle: Mass Effect 2 vs Paul

Commander Shepard considers her fate

Mass Effect 2 attacks: Ultimate strike!

• Complete overhaul from RPG into action game while retaining - and even improving on - look and feel of Mass Effect universe
• Excellent story with plenty of complex, wonderful characters (who doesn't love Dr Mordin?)
• Extremely well thought out moral choices
• Fast-paced, exciting combat that is as rewarding as it is fun
• 40 hours not enough...
• Thank Nazara for replayability: I've already loaded my Renegade Shepard to play through in an entirely different way

Paul attacks: miss!

• Some of the eccentricities of ME1 lost in effort to appeal to mainstream (I liked away parties)
• Beware major spoilers in Collector's Edition art book
• Planet scanning is a time sucker
• I'd rather stand my Shepard in an elevator than watch a loading screen of an elevator going up or down IMHOLOL
• Low-res FMV cut-scenes (wish this was on Blu-Ray)

Battle Summary:

Mass Effect 2 was my most anticipated game of 2008, 2009 and 2010, and now, after finishing it, I can say that I am still impressed. This is a stunning game that feels like the culmination of everything that has been advanced in video games for the past twenty years. Nearly every element of ME2 is drenched in quality and refinement. I did everything there was to do in the game and at no point in those 40 hours was I tired of playing - I kept wanting more. There is so much to do and so many decisions that you make that I know I will be playing it again two or three more times to experience all the games different paths.

About Paul

Paul has been playing games since he cut his teeth on an old Atari 2600 in the early 1990s. He has played every console generation since, and currently jams on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and DSi. He proudly does not own a Wii, and goes back and forth on whether he'd want a gaming PC (he did his fair share of Mac gaming back in the day though). Games-wise, Paul came up in the world a pretty big JRPG nerd, but now he's mellowed plays mostly anything good or weird. He does maintain a pretty impressive collection Playstation 1-era RPGs.