Rather out of nowhere, along with two artwork desktops, Bioware have posted the first teaser trailer for Mass Effect 2. As you might expect for a barely announced game, there’s no gameplay footage here, but instead a rather worrying implication. Well, it’s an interesting surprise so I’ll not spoil it. It’s below.
Oddly the Bioware site says the embed code won’t be available until the 24th Feb. But then has links to download the .wmv and the .mov of the file, so of course it’s already on YouTube in lovely HD.
Oh noes! What can it mean? And when will we see more? We’ll try and find out details as soon as possible.
Enormous thanks to Jack for alerting us to this.
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as a game it’s tedious- as an interactive film it’s a lot of fun.
Ha, that sums up my experience with most RPGs, especially the olde-school consoles ones. Lately, I’ve been scratching the RPG itch with 4X games of all things. Civ IV is much more enjoyable if you play as a maniacal evil bastard who nukes innocent cities for laughs. See also: Tom Francis’ GalCiv2 diary.
@acardiac
Truth. I think handling the utter ineptitude of the buddy AI in fallout probably accounts for about 30% of the game time. The uncanny ability of them to all either shoot you, each other or friendlies is frustratingly tragic. As someone rightly pointed out, back when you were a kid, you’d tolerate that shit because you didn’t know any better, and even if it took you 20 attempts and you’d see it through because you were too dumb to question it. Who save the truly lifeless has time for that these days.
OMG You Killed Shepard! You Bastards.
Most overrated game of 2008 was Mass Effect.
Another thing about Fallout is, well, it’s at least as derivative as Mass Effect. I’m not sure I’d qualify that as a flaw of either of them, really, but slagging off Mass Effect for being somewhere awkwardly in-between Star Trek and Babylon 5 disregards the fact that Fallout is pure pulp, wot with its green-skinned super-mutants, vault dwellers and desertified brown world. I don’t think the designers would try and claim they were doing something especially new with the game’s setting.
hes not acttualy dead! Here Is proof, check it out! http://masseffectonline.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4&pid=6&st=0&#entry6
It also awnsers all other speculations! Check it!
i really doubt they would kill him because when u start the game it says ur id is incomplete due to ur n7 covert status i think this is just a teaser to the prolouge like everyone thinks your dead in a huge dam battle then you get back to the citadel and bac to the big mission. plus the makers said the entire trilogy was centered around this guy look it up and then they said to keep ur saves so i really doubt they would do that crap and kill him i meen these are the guys that made the first one they wouldnt make a big story mess up like that