The Short Version
- Platform: Xbox 360
- One Word: Streamlined
- Two Words: Shepard Lives!
- Worth It: Yes
- Scale: terrible | poor | fair | good | great
This review contains spoilers from the first 15 minutes of the game, where something major happens. If you haven’t already heard about it, you might be upset at me for mentioning it. Proceed with caution.
When a game is already great, it’s often a tough act to follow. Many sequels to great games have been extremely good games in their own right, but did not quite live up to the original (see: my recent review of BioShock 2). Other sequels to great games are just plain not as good. It’s a rare thing indeed to find a sequel to a great game which is better than the original in virtually all ways. Mass Effect 2 is one of these sequels.
At the end of the first Mass Effect,
