Love This game... Bioware never sieses to amaze me. game play as well as story are great, all the extras that you can do compared to ME1 are great and the extras that come with the DDV make the game alot more interesting.

Only downsides are the reloading compaired to the unlimited ammo in ME1, which i have grown to work with, and the mellee is still alittle wonky.

Greatly looking forward to ME3.

A great game that every RPG/strategy fan would love and enough action to keep all those MW3 people happy. Warning Game will make you emotionally involved in story.

The epic story continues in Mass Effect 2. The stakes are higher as Shepherd and his crew battle a new group of threats from beyond the stars. With a return of characters from the first game, and a whole new offering of crew members, the story centers around Shepherd's efforts to build an expert team to battle the big bads.

Controls from the first game have been tightened here, and the shooting feels much more visceral, however some of the RPG elements have been toned down. The goal was clearly to focus on the story, and the side missions have been lessened, making this game roughly half the length of the first. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on your expectations. The game itself is a much better product in terms of polish, but the massive inventory from the first game is gone, replaced by a small selection of guns and bombs. This allows the player to focus on the story and the NPC friendships, but for loot oriented players this can be a turn off. That being said, the game is still terrific and deserves a play. Buy it and decide for yourself, it could be one of your best uses for twenty dollars!

This game...I'm not sure how to put it in words, but I will try. It's not too often a game makes an impact on my life, but this game has made a HUGE impact. The graphics are very well done, the voice acting is amazing, gameplay is flawless. I've been a huge fan since the original came out, and I've gotten many of my friends to play it. I love RPG/Character development/and story games, and this just made me love those genres even more. I'd definitely give this game a try, but I'd play the ME1 if you have not already, just to follow the story.

All in all, this is an outstanding game. Definitely a must buy, and I know I've said that many times already (lol) but, it's the truth. Anyway, to end my ranting, buy this awesome game!

Mass Effect 2 is the excellent sequel to Mass Effect with good and well implemented enhancements like the planetary exploration and the characterhandling. The evolving and unfolding story goes even deeper into the world of ME and fascinates all the time and also makes appetite for ME3 which would be released in 2011. Nevertheless the new planetary search for ressources could be boring sometimes but this is luckily not the main aspect of the game itself. The character development is very simple and easy to understand even for gamers which are usually not playing RPG's. Bioware gave the players slightly more freedom regarding storychanging decisions. All in all its as mentioned before an excellent sequel for an already very good game.

The graphics are very good and fluid. There are no mentionable bugs or problems. The sound and music are incredible and fit into the game all the time.

Conclusion: There are only a few offline-RPG that are so massive and deep like the ME-Series. ME2 is a must as ME1 was and probably ME3 will be.

An outstanding game to my taste - liked it as much as Dragon Age. Those who like RPG, character developing, equipment, weapons, etc. will surely enjoy it! Those who like an interesting (and I DO mean interesting) storyline will enjoy it even more! Oh, and those who like the storyline to be flexible and change according to your own decision will just spend few days non-stop over this game... ehhm, I did!

Such a lovely game! Bioware is always top of the line imo. Quit thinking about buying this awesome game and just buy it already! It will keep you busy if you like rpg type games. The universe is huge in this one! I was addicted for about a month, still play it on a regular basis.

first things first, if you bought dragonage origins the DLC for ME2 doesnt not work the same way, its a standard download and install rather than the ingame technique that they used in DA:O -------------- dont expect the ammount of items you got in ME1, its all gone now. 3 or 4 assault rifles, 2 pistols, etc and a few sets of armour------- as for the armour be aware that there is no in mission toggle to remove your helmet, and ALL the dlc armour is one piece, no mix and matching and that includes full helmets...great story, gone are the pointless circle minigames from the first ME, gone is the open planet exploration too. i liked it, but i think its a case of removing some of the rpg elements to more cater to the 3rd person shooter crowd

Mass Effect 2 is an achievement in gaming of the greatest order. It has exciting visceral combat, akin to the one found in such blockbusters as Gears of War 2. The RPG elements are the best we've seen in the past few years, every character is extremely well-developed, has a background story, and the game genuinely makes us care for the characters. Exploration is also superb, with addictive mini-games and side quests that truly affect the outcome of your game. No two mass effect 2 playthroughs will be the same and that is what makes this game great.

I don't have to say that "If you liked Mass Effect, then Mass Effect 2 is a must-buy" ... because you either know that, our you didn't like Mass Effect.

The story continues. No surprise. Bigger and better than the first. I didn't like the state of the universe without my imported character --- so I'm not sure how well people who don't have a Mass Effect character to import are going to like this.

I'm a little disappointed in the extras. I bought the digital deluxe version and I preordered. A number of the items conflict --- you end up with several armor choices, but you can only wear one on any particular mission. The item buffs are nice, but a little more thought could have gone into the fact that someone may own Dragon's age (blood armor), have preordered (more armor) and bought the deluxe edition (yet more armor).

There also appears to be a little less illusion of choice on missions. You immediately return to the ship on completing a mission. If you're out in the middle of a space station, you end up back on your ship and you have to re-dock at the space station if you want to do something else there. Similarly, the citidel isn't so much walking. The "Precidium" stop pops you into Anderson's office. No wandering around.

These are small quibbles in the scheme of things. The story is grand. Cry, laugh, shout ooh-rah... it's all in there. The action is direct and in-your-face. The voice acting is first rate. Even the camera work and facial animations of the dialogue scenes is enhanced. I somewhat pity the fools that play this on an xbox. It's so pretty on a PC --- and it runs full spec on my i7/920 and nVidia 275 at 1920x1200.

If anything bioware has caught your eye in the last 3 years, you're going to buy this eventually... might as well be now :).