Mass Effect 2 is shockingly the second installment in the Mass Effect Series. I know I'm suppose to not show any sort of bias in my reviews, so I'm going to get this out of the way. This is my favorite out of the series and Thane is my favorite, actually useful, team member in ME2.
Mass Effect 2(From now on called ME2), takes place almost immediately after the events of ME1, Shepard is on his ship, cruising around endless space searching for Geth to kill then BAM!, you get exploded and die. The end. No seriously, you die in the first 5 minutes. Everyone gets off, the Normandy and Shepard goes down with the ship.
Don't fret though, Cerberus spends two years rebuilding you. You'd think tech like that would be a bit more used even if it takes a few years to get right. Anyway, now you either "work with Cerberus" or are "doing them a favor" to pay them back for bringing your back from the dead.
So now that you've stopped the initial reaper threat in ME1, apparently a race not previously mentioned is now a huge threat and occasionally have been before, who knew, and now you need to stop them.
This game is a bit more intensive then ME1 is, I think the story line is self is about 10 to 15 hours, almost double that of ME1. However you don't need to attain all of you team mates and several of them are optional. Side missions are a bit more ... for lack of a better word ... dumb. You scan a planet, send a probe and land where you sent the probe so you can fulfill what ever excuse the game gives you to shoot things over a chest high wall. While they did in fact fix the gun fighting system, they drastically cut down on the RPG elements of the game.
I played as the sniper/stealth class, in the first game you got a laundry list of abilities to sink your points into. In ME2 you get like 5, which was about half of where it was before. The powers seem to be much more effective however, so I guess that makes up for it. And just for the record, head shots get more and more effective as the series carries on.
If you thought that the game has enough characters to help and play with then this game will make you jump for joy, there are 12 other characters you can play with, each one has a unique set of techs and biotics. Each spec that you can make Shepard play as has a group of at least 2 partners that will play to your strengths.
The way you upgrade your weapons and armor have also changed in this installment. Instead of figuring out which suit fits better and acts as better laser repellent, you keep your standard clothing and put different parts on it that you find in shops and you can find new weapons and buy or find the upgrades of. You also cannot change your partners clothing, unless you make them loyal to you, even then its just one new costume.
One other thing worth mentioning is they changed guns in an interesting way. Guns no longer work on a cool down, it works on ammo. They give flavor to it and a good reason, but the change seems a bit odd. They also took out the old way of doing bypasses and hacking and changed it with a new system where you cant just use omni-gel.
So all in all, ME2 is almost completely different from ME1. They pretty much completely changed the fighting, changed or removed some classes abilities, lowered the level cap, got rid of the several armors, changed the way you upgrade your weapons (for the better), gave you more strategy for biotics and tech for the bad change they did and in some odd way made the game more immersive. I would have liked for them to keep the world exploration in stead of just planet scanning. Some changes were for the better, some for the worse, but as I stated previously this ME is my favorite.
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