Well guys, I just got my new copy of OXM and there's a 10 page article giving some new details on ME 2. The city that you saw in the early leaked trailers is an Asari city or planet called Illium. The article said both in different sections. So we'll have to wait until we get more from E3 on that. That's good, because I thought it was an expanded part of the Citadel. Other new places we'll see are the main Cerberus outpost. It's a huge space station with gigantic curved engines running beneath it. There's a prison outpost called Purgatory where guards patrol above the inmates in glass tubes. There is Omega, which was mentioned in the Ascension novel. It is described as the opposite of the Citadel, a massive and really brutal mining station. It's the bottom of society, the worst of crime and vice and all that good stuff. And there's a new Krogan planet that we'll be going to.
Ok, more importantly are the Reapers. Of course they're still the greatest danger, but now there's a new threat that may be associated with them. Human colonies are disappearing all over the galaxy, and it's up to Shepard (naturally) to discover what it is. The Geth from the trailer is a specific character. Not much else is given about "him", but it's a character that we'll connect with supposedly. You guys can theorize on that one. There's a new speceis called Drell, the scaly, green amphibious alien that you saw in the second trailer. A member of that species, Thane, is supposedly a major bad-a$$ and you'll get the chance to recruit him into your party. Another possible party member is a Krogan called Grunt. He looks to be a fairly young Krogan as his head plate isn't as fully formed like Wrex, Jax, or Inamorda. Hey, if you didn't kill Wrex in the first game, you may get to roll with two Krogan in your squad! Sweet!! Also there may be a chance to meet up with a male Quarian as well.
The mechs in the video and the article seem to be manufactured by humans, as there is human lettering on their bodies such as N88 and other writing too small for me to see. They could be Cerberus mechs that we'll have to fight in the game. That's all I've got for you so far guys. If I learn anything else, I'll post it up.
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