Add to this the time required to download the Cerberus pack, which includes the comic and a very useful ally, and you’re in for a long wait before you can get gaming. The game itself requires a ridiculously long installation 25 minutes on a near empty PS3, and up to 50 minutes on a full PS3. They could’ve included it on the disc it’s not like there was a dearth of space. However, and this is where my gripe with the PS3 version starts, the comic is only available as downloadable content free with every new copy of the PS3 game. While a ten minute comic is no substitute for 25 hours of gaming and the rich universe created in the first game, it does an admirable job of getting you up and running.
Over ten minutes, you will also get to make some of the key decisions, which will reflect their outcome in Mass Effect 2. The Dark Horse comic is bright and colourful, and well narrated. The PS3 version includes a comic to bring you up to speed on the events of Mass Effect 1, in case you didn’t play it and because it isn’t available on PS3. This is one of the finest adventures you will embark upon on PC or consoles, and I thoroughly enjoyed replaying it. The game is much more action oriented than its predecessor, and battles can be brutal at higher difficulty levels. You will tie up with a rogue human organization and befriend a motley crew of new and old allies, and even meet up with some old faces who’ve moved on with their lives in the two years separating the two games. Mass Effect 2 continues Shepard’s campaign this time on a mission to find why humans are disappearing from colonies. The first game saw protagonist Shepard chase across the galaxy in search of a rogue alien and uncover a deeper conspiracy hatched by a long forgotten race of super beings.
The game creates a very rich universe, with its own civilisations, history and politics. If you’ve never heard of Mass Effect and really can’t be bothered with what’s happening on the PC and Xbox side, here’s the lowdown – this is a space opera played out as an action-oriented RPG. We already reviewed Mass Effect 2 last year and gave it a perfect score, so this review is just to help you make up your mind in case you were still on the fence. Winning multiple Game of the Year awards last year and making up one-thirds of every Xbox fanboy’s arsenal in console wars, the game has finally arrived on the PS3. Unless you’ve been actually living in space, you may have heard of Mass Effect 2.
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