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Mass Effect 2 Sells In 2 Million Units
by Leigh Alexander [PC, Console/PC]
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January 29, 2010
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BioWare's Mass Effect 2 has shipped 2 million units, says publisher Electronic Arts, which claims the "first blockbuster of 2010" in its announcement today.
"Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010," says BioWare co-founder and general manager Ray Muzyka. "We could not be more proud of the game’s universal acclaim and early commercial success."
The game averages a 96 review score on Metacritic, one of the highest on next-gen consoles, tying it with with games like Take-Two's BioShock, Valve's The Orange Box and Sony's Uncharted 2.
Lead producer Adrien Cho recently explained to Gamasutra how BioWare incorporated as much feedback from the first game as possible into the sequel to make it more successful.
"We wanted to make sure that absolutely every issue that was brought up was addressed... so the press had nowhere to go, and all the critics had nowhere to go, because we had made an attempt to hopefully address all those issues in some capacity," he told us.
The title released in North America just three days ago on January 26, and Gamasutra's Chris Remo recently analyzed the changes made to the gameplay system, finding it something of an experiment in codifying genre.
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Also, it's 2010, why are consoles still being referred to as next-gen? :)
Really, the only flow breakers are the 3 mini games. The two hacking ones, and the planet scanning game were okay the first few times, but after 30 times each...
Regardless, if they fix the very very few problems with this game, Mass Effect 3 could very well be the best game ever. God knows ME2 is coming very close to the top on my list.
The inventory system was the biggest complaint I had about the first so glad they addressed it. I did hear the inventory was somewhat better on the PC version of the game but I only played the 360 version where it sucked.
While I LOVED ME, I do like ME2, but I have to say it feels very different. I do NOT like the thermo clip system.
ME's story seems extremely EPIC and while I have no finished ME2, this story does NOT feel EPIC.
I loved exploring the Citadel, it feels so small now. Everything feels small now for some reason.