Thinking a 20 minute comic substitutes playing the game anyway is a bad idea. Nevermind that anybody playing this game straight up will lose the impact that the first 30 minutes of the game have. But the major problem I have with this intro is that it's essentially BioWare implying that the first Mass Effect didn't really matter a whole lot except for a few key plot points (which it looks like they couldn't even include all of the key plot points anyway). I think that people will have a hard time remembering people from the comic outside of Shepard and a few characters, thus all its impact will be lost. Not to mention the boredom factor. 20 minute cutscenes, interactive or not, are not one of the reasons I play WRPGs.
themanwithnoname's law: As an America's sales or NPD thread grows longer, the probabilty of the comment "America = World" [sarcasticly] being made approaches 1.
