Mass Effect 2 Review

Well, I am either going to have to wait until next week, or completely negate the bloody point of getting a good pre-order price by stopping in Blockbuster on the way home.
 
Won't spoil anything, but the opening is awesome.
Set's a new benchmark for the opening of a game I think. Very cinematic.
 
Nexus said:
Won't spoil anything, but the opening is awesome.
Set's a new benchmark for the opening of a game I think. Very cinematic.
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Yeah, the bit where the space dinosaurs attack Earth was awesome!*


















*This may or may not have happened :p
 
"Even though there is a disc swap, it occurs at a carefully planned place in the game (that does not interfere with gameplay) and is done once," Priestly said. "You do not swap back and forth. One swap and then done."

Lies!

i had to swap back to disc 1 for the final mission :p
 
LOL, I seemed to have developed a fanaticism for scanning every planet trying to get all the minerals. It's taking forever!
 
McDaniel said:
It only has the save my friend played - not mine :( (though my saves are still there, I might reply the last mission in 1 on my save to get a new end of game save)... LONG
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It was a technical issue Bioware couldn't work around. To import a save you have to do it on the HDD they were saved on.

The work around for it is transfer the saves to your new HDD and play through the end of the game again (which is not a problem since everyone has a final save very close to the end through an autosave). After the ending it makes a new save on your new HDD meaning it can then be imported.

I know you've already figured it out, but I just thought I would explain it incase others are having the same problem.
 
Just had the game Freeze on me during one of the loading screens. Totally killed the Xbox until I switched it off. :(
 
Am I actually doing this scanning correct? I just methodically move the grid up/down the planet and keep pressing LT briefly as I do so. When it picks up something, wiggle about until you find the highest peak and then send a probe. It seems an awfully long-winded process. Does the grid cursor actually do anything like pointing you in the right direction for the nearest mineral?
 
ic1male said:
Am I actually doing this scanning correct? I just methodically move the grid up/down the planet and keep pressing LT briefly as I do so. When it picks up something, wiggle about until you find the highest peak and then send a probe. It seems an awfully long-winded process. Does the grid cursor actually do anything like pointing you in the right direction for the nearest mineral?
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Thats how I do it, except I tap the LT rapidly just to keep the grid moving faster. At the same time I keep an eye for any peaks on the graph and them home in and tweak it to it's highest peak before launching a probe.
 
Alrik said:
The work around for it is transfer the saves to your new HDD and play through the end of the game again (which is not a problem since everyone has a final save very close to the end through an autosave). After the ending it makes a new save on your new HDD meaning it can then be imported.
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I had to start a 3rd playthrough to reach level 60, so i'm now stuck with a level 53 using this method. :( Oh well on with ME2! :cool:
 
There's also a Scanner upgrade if you can get 15000 Iridium.

I've got to say though, I haven't been able to put this game down all day. It's brilliant.
 
I can only echo what people are saying, its a stunningly good game.

Glad I 'fixed' the big mech on the archangel mission!

glad the hacking isnt quick time events now!
 
A little off topic I guess, but have been playing through ME 1 again (seeing as my pre-order didn't arrive for this) and I am sure it's running worse than it did the last time I played. It's frequently hitching, for lack of a better word, and the frame rate seems far worse than I remember too.

I have played through it twice previously, and can't remember having as much of an issue with performance as I am right now. It's making that battle against the Thorian incredibly annoying and hard.

Don't suppose 360 start having performance issues before they die do they?
 
Alrik said:
It was a technical issue Bioware couldn't work around. To import a save you have to do it on the HDD they were saved on.

The work around for it is transfer the saves to your new HDD and play through the end of the game again (which is not a problem since everyone has a final save very close to the end through an autosave). After the ending it makes a new save on your new HDD meaning it can then be imported.

I know you've already figured it out, but I just thought I would explain it incase others are having the same problem.
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That's not strictly true, the end of game save from my friends career was done on xbox1 and saved on hdd1 - I copied all the save games from hdd1 to my memory unit and moved to xbox2 onto hdd2 - and it detected that fine... I think in my case it only saves a single End Of Game save, I simply killed the boss again and went from there so all sorted :)

Cheers for the help
 
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