| IllegalPaladin said: There can still be multiple endings to Mass Effect 2 even if they only used one of the endings in the first game as canon. |
They've been pretty clear since the series was announced that each sequel would read the previous game's save file. They want it to be a continuous story. Wouldn't you find it a little jarring to find that all the time you spent in the first game making decisions was for naught, as they didn't matter and they weren't the 'correct' story path?
That said, it won't be the first sequel to read the first game's save file. The Suffering: Ties that Bind did that, and parts of the game were changed (including the beginning) depending on the ending you got in the first game. However, they still had a 'generic' opening (that didn't assume either extreme) that you could select if you wanted.
