My Mass Effect Review!

[Reasonable]

averyblund said:

Reasonable said:

I'll definately get ME2.  I'm travelling around on my laptop at the moment so I'm going to hold off until I get home to my PC in a few weeks.  I don't want to spoil it by playing it with settings dialled down.

Good to hear your view - I've been pretty confident that Bioware were going to keep the good stuff (of which there was a lot) from the first while improving all the weak elements.

You are making a wise choice waiting to get home. The graphics and art directiong are frankly stunning. Not the best "technically" (though close), but one of the most varied and detailed I have seen. Another perk is the awesome framerate this game kicks out even on a modest laptop. My 9600GT mobile has no problem with maxed out settings (even AA) at 1280x960. A half-decent desktop GPU like my GeForce 250 runs it like butter at 2560 x 1600. Compared to the usually shitty preformance of non-exclusives it is really nice to see. I'd be curious to compare it to the 360 version, though I can't imagine it would even be competitive.

 

Don't forget to import your ME1 save if you still have it, there are lots of cool perks.

Indeed my final save game is just waiting for me to pick it up.  I'm quite pleased that the general view is this is better optimized to PC than ME1 was.  Again, it looks like Bioware have made ME2 better in every way.

I'll just have to avoid spoilers for a week or two then I can dive in myself.

Thanks for the feedback.