Mass Effect 2 - Preview @ IGN

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According to Greg Zeschuk in this IGN preview of Mass Effect 2, this second game is intended to be "the trilogy's Empire Strikes Back", being darker and harder:
Combat has dramatically improved in ME2. As soon as you get it in your hands and begin running for cover before snapping up your sights on oncoming enemies, you forget that you are even playing an RPG. It's all so fluid. "Well combat was one of our big focuses. The original was the first time we had ever really tried a shooter, and just getting the game done was a lot of work. So as time has rolled on we've just got a lot better at doing the combat. The tradition of the RPG is a lot more like Dragon Age, whereas Mass Effect is more like a game with RPG features. I would consider it more of a Shooter RPG. Especially after the changes we have made in this one: it is even more like a shooter. It's very doable to make such a mix work; you just need to get practice with it."
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Harder definitely sounds good.
 
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They should just confess it's not an RPG.
 
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At least Bioware is admitting that Mass Effect (now) is more of a shooter than an RPG; the whole thing about them removing overheating and instead going with ammo clips signals this, I find.

To me, I have no problem with this. Bioware is to one company that can make a decent shooter with a pretty good story behind it, I think.
 
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