Xbox 360’s Newest: Mass Effect 2
Remember Xbox 360’s Mass Effect, called the best game of 2007, perhaps the best RPG in the games’ history? The first Mass Effect left us all wanting more, with some of the best characters and the best endings ever. The characters themselves were multifaceted and stayed in your mind long after the game was done. Games like Mass Effect do increase sales for Xbox 360, and it certainly has earned Bioware a lot of cash, to be sure.
If you have played Mass Effect on Xbox recently, then you probably still have your saved game. To those that have played it when it was first released, loved everything about it and deleted the saved game, you would not be too happy when you know that you will be missing out on a very big treat.
If you still have the first Mass Effect file, saved, you can keep it until early next year. At that time, Mass Effect 2 will be released, and you can actually import your saved game so that you’ll start right off in Mass Effect 2 where you left off in the first Mass Effect game.
However, that’s not all the good news. What’s really good about this is that the moral standing of your character and the choices made in the first Mass Effect game goes right on into the second game. These choices also affect your second game, and if you save your file, you’ll basically have one long unbroken experience that seamlessly transitions into the next level.
Imagine when the credits rolled at the end of the first Mass Effect, and the second game kicks off. Many fans have come across the Mass Effect 2 teaser trailer. On the trailer the camera pans over a familiar armor suit. As the camera nears the chest area, we make out N7 on the suit, and then we finally realize that the suit belongs to the main character, Shepherd.
Only, it’s not. Actually, a Geth soldier wears the suit, and we learn that Shepherd was killed in action. However, these accounts, as they say, were greatly exaggerated, and he’s actually back in Mass Effect 2, with a whole new threat to face.
There are a few things that you need to know about Mass Effect 2. We all know about the multiple endings in first Mass Effect. Mass Effect 2 has its share of multiple endings, too. Your primary mission is a suicide mission, and you are warned about this at the beginning of the game. Shepherd knows this and so does this team.
You and your entire team can die or you can live. This all depends on the decisions you make throughout the game, and these decisions decide your outcome. However, if your character dies in Mass Effect 2, his death is permanent, which means you will be able to play him Mass Effect 3.