When a really good sequel comes out, like say, Ghostbusters 2 , Speed 2, or Transformers 2, people often forget the original inspiration that made the series great.
In this case, the ground breaking excellence of Mass Effect is getting lost in this swirl of unrestrained, hysterical gushing over the sequel.  These aren’t legitimate reviews we’re [...]

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Welcome to the sixth in a series of guides for the different starting classes in Mass Effect 2! If you enjoy this guide, please check out our other Survival Guides.
So, you want to be a soldier? Well, the good news is that despite some limitations you are probably picking the easiest class to understand and play [...]

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Mass Effect 2 was just released two days ago. We’ve reviewed it. We’ve written a guide for it, with class guides on the way. Along with the release of Mass Effect 2 were two pieces of free DLC, a mission returning you to the scene of destruction (the actual DLC title is a spoiler, so [...]

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Editor’s note: This is yet another in a long list of kick ass Sarcastic Gamer Survival Guides. If you want to check out the other ones in the series, click here for our list of guides for games like Halo: ODST, GTA IV, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield Bad Company and Burnout Paradise, [...]

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How do you review a game that is the sequel to, what some have called, the best game ever made for the Xbox 360? Should I compare the two? Should I assume you already know all about Mass Effect and then get on with the new stuff? What about spoilers? Bear with me as I [...]

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The SG review copy from EA arrived early yesterday, allowing me an opportunity to dive into the game and give you all a little taste of what to expect in Mass Effect 2.This will be spoiler free, but I will discuss certain gameplay elements.
Straight away, I wanted to import my ME character, a level 47 [...]

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This is not a funny article; let’s get this out of the way right up front.
However, as a writer for a website devoted (theoretically, anyway) to finding the funny in video games, I find it fairly ironic that truly comedic video games are such a rarity.
As an emerging art form, video games have aggressively tackled the [...]

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Mass Effect 2, the sequel to one of the most beloved games on the Xbox 360 is just a few short weeks away. Lately, Bioware has been releasing new information on the classes of ME2 and we have some new information about a new class!
The new “Gamer” Class to Mass Effect 2 is a radical [...]

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Sometimes a writer just has to work with the limited amount of information they’ve got. In this case I have two paragraphs drenched in ‘Essence of Vague’. Did I just invent the name of a beautifying compound for the sake of metaphor?! You’re damn right, I did! Metaphors are fun to use and I chose [...]

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