

The more worthy bonus to keep in mind is that you’re getting all of the major DLC expansions released throughout 2010 on the one Blu-ray. The PC edition, of course, still trumps all. At best, there are superficial lighting and shader differences between the 360 and PS3 versions: only the eagle-eyed anal-retents out there will find much to bicker over. That sounds pretty impressive on paper (or screen), but the reality is it doesn’t make for a massive leap forward in visuals. In terms of improvements, many of you may have heard that ME2 on PS3 has been wrought upon the anvil of BioWare’s new Mass Effect 3 engine.

Obviously this choose-your-own-adventure format was always going to be inferior to an entire game experience, but for the most part it is handled quite slickly. That said, newcomers will be blissfully ignorant and can speedily get their head around Shepard and his/her universe in a way that isn’t too disruptive to the game’s opening scenes. Personally, we felt a tiny bit miffed with the absence of a few minor NPC encounters (the obsessed fan springs to mind). Once acquired this comic sequence will pop up between Shepard's first encounter with the enigmatic Collectors and his arrival at the Cerberus station.ģ60 veterans of Mass Effect will snort at the brevity of this summary along with the lack of context with the key decisions. To get around this problem you’re given access (through a separate, free download) to an interactive Dark Horse comic that summarises the events of Mass Effect. The most obvious downside of the PS3 version is that it has no preceding Mass Effect game to draw user save history from. Not a star-date will go by in ME2 without you doing something rad enough to earn a double bro-fist from James T. As Commander Shepard, you'll burn around the galaxy in mankind's sweetest space-rod, recruiting like-minded bad-arses to save Earth and do whatever - and "whoever" - you like. It's also the ultimate nerd-boner fantasy. For those of you unfamiliar with it ME2 is a sci-fi epic crafted by RPG luminaries BioWare.
