Mass Effect 2 teaser

[frogbeastegg]

The combat in that video looked awful. I'm not sold on the idea of ammo at all; the original's lack of it was refreshing and was built into the game's universe. Weapon heat and the effects of various weapons mods on it presented a range of possibilites. I'd prefer they added more meaningful tactical and power related decisions than when to duck back and reload.

What was that nasty blue goo that kept appearing on the Shepard character? Please don't say alien blood. That would increase the cringe factor by a power of two.

Not fond of the new HUD either. The old one was much clearer in terms of giving information.

[Mailman653]

Well, if they screw me ME2, there's always ME3.

[Mailman653]

Leaked Mass Effect DLC Plans Surface

[al Roumi]

What was that nasty blue goo that kept appearing on the Shepard character? Please don't say alien blood. That would increase the cringe factor by a power of two..

I think the blue goo is frost, from cryo ammo or residue from the explosion of those cryo containers that were always negligently left lying around the place in ME.

The combat in that video looked awful. I'm not sold on the idea of ammo at all; the original's lack of it was refreshing and was built into the game's universe. Weapon heat and the effects of various weapons mods on it presented a range of possibilites. I'd prefer they added more meaningful tactical and power related decisions than when to duck back and reload.

The lack of an ammo count was liberating in ME, if the "reloading" were actually manualy changing a heat sink in the weapon, that might be interesting (imagine the same on an overclocked PC ).

In a wider sense, the style of the player in the video was certainly not how I played ME, all this running around with the team so spread out... I hardly ever used grenades and almost never swapped weapons during a close quarter fight. I suppose it looks better for the video and shows off more of the graphics and features.

[rajpoot]

Maybe they're trying to give it a more FPS sort of feel? I mean I'm just guessing here, but Fallout 3 went that way with it's DLCs (the fact that people didn't like it is a separate issue), maybe Bioware is trying that move for ME2....

[al Roumi]

Maybe they're trying to give it a more FPS sort of feel? I mean I'm just guessing here, but Fallout 3 went that way with it's DLCs (the fact that people didn't like it is a separate issue), maybe Bioware is trying that move for ME2....

ugh, i hope not. I really liked ME's combat system.

[Monk]

New screens released on Kotaku reveals a familiar face will be returning.

[Mailman653]

I wonder if we will have a Geth ally, that would be pretty cool.

Hands on ME2