Mass Effect 2

I'm trying to get into it and it's just not working for me. It's like someone sold me a bag of baking soda.

User Rating: 6.5 | Mass Effect 2 PC

By VivaNOLA | Review Date: January 29, 2010

I think that I may have just reached some kind of internal biological limit on the number of times I can play a Space Marine. I see a pulsing crate ahead, but unless it contains a Bioshock 2 installer I just don't give a s**t anymore.

Also, I don't feel like I'm anywhere at all in this game. It's every cliche of what running around a spaceship is supposed to look like. Rapture was a place. Liberty city was a place. Even Arkham Asylum was a place, albeit a derivative one. This is just nowhere. The linearity seems like a conspicuously dated style of game-play at this point. Contemporary games usually do a better job of dispersing spawn-points and staggering their triggers.

I will say that Miranda is a piece of ass. Some subtle boob physics would be nice since currently her space-spandex is frozen as if made of marble. Voice acting is decent, and sometimes great.

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