OXCGN writes: "By now you've read all the glowing reviews of Mass Effect 2, seen the praise showered on it and perhaps even played it yourself. I'm not going to tell you again what countless other reviewers have said. If you want read love letters to Bioware you can see the reviews from almost every other site on Metacritic.
Instead, I thought I'd try something different: I'm going to play the critic, dealing in criticism and nothing else. Don't get me wrong, Mass Effect 2 is a masterpiece of narrative, character design and gameplay, but like any game it's not perfect."
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
Wealth of Geeks explores some of the best gaming romances that have stolen our hearts over the years.
Diandra worked on Diablo 4 and also other games at Blizzard including WoW: Dragon Flight. She’s also been at Bioware, Carbine, RIOT, and she is currently working at Crystal Dynamics.
Brian was the Lead Writer on Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls, worked on StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm, StarCraft: Wings of Liberty, and was also a writer on Mass Effect 2. He’s also been involved in movies such as the Iron Giant.
Diandra and Brian discuss their industry experience, the games they have worked on, how the writing process works, and much more.
There is a score for this, even though it looks at 10 negative things about the game: 9.5/10- You might want to put that in the section above.
Yeah great score. Why isn't it put up on N4G?
Love this game, and how well they did the both platforms rather than try and make one to fit all . . .
The write up clearly shows how well they did both the PC and the 360 version . . shame there will be no PS3 version, as Bioware were asked again last week, and they said flatly that there was no PS3 version in the works - period.
When you check out the PC v's 360 images, there's bugger all in them really, and for the money, the 360 version is the best way to go in my book, unless of course you have a decent rig naturally.
The game looks absolutely brilliant, and from what Alex says, it plays just as good as it looks. Shame that there's so many great games around these days, we're spoilt for choice really.
Actually the score is 9.5 according to the website...
I liked the approach...tried to come up with 10 bad things about the game but faltered there at the end...lol.