The arrogant and hilariously blunt salarian, Dr. Meanwhile, Kasumi’s mission is a short heist, while Jack’s is a jailbreak and Grunt’s is a straight test of combat befitting of a krogan warrior. Even though there are several stories that deal with family, resolving Jacob’s quest to find his father is completely different in tone from those involving Samara’s daughter, Miranda’s sister, or Thane’s son. Each one of the 12 characters (including returning favorites Garrus and Tali) has an interesting backstory to delve into, and they’re all different and distinct. Its main quest is to stop a group of aliens who’ve been abducting entire human colonies, but the real meat of it is building your team – first (usually) by recruiting them and then with a second mission in which you earn their loyalty and unlock their extra skills. Part of why Mass Effect 2 holds up so well is its unusual structure. And it’s still preferable to driving around empty worlds in the Mako in the first game. I also greatly appreciated the tweaks made to the planet scanning and mining minigame – it’s still fairly tedious to manually scan over globe after globe looking for minerals to use on upgrades for your ship and gear, but slightly less so thanks to conveniences like the markers that show where you’ve already launched a collection probe. There are some visible seams around where the DLC was welded in, however – it’s still very noticeable that the two permanent companions that were added, Kasumi and Zaeed, are less conversational than the rest of the team once they’re on your ship. Having a bunch of stuff unceremoniously dropped into my inventory because I bought something never felt good, and having to use credits to buy them at in-game stores instead is literally a small price to pay for better immersion. Outside of that, all of the DLC is now integrated into the campaign in a way that’s much smoother.
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(It’s quite annoying, though, that the Series X’s Quick Resume is not supported, so my kid’s obsession with New Super Lucky’s Tale meant I had to go through the start screen every time.) The same powerful photo mode is available throughout all three games in the trilogy too, and Mass Effect 2 is a great way to take advantage of it, being a significantly better-looking game than the original. Playing on Xbox Series X, it ran flawlessly at 60fps (my TV’s not quite capable of 4K/120Hz, but EA says Mass Effect is), with the biggest visual problems I saw amounting to some small animation glitches. Granted, the facial animations don’t compare to the motion-captured performances we see in games like The Last of Us Part 2 or Spider-Man: Miles Morales, but they’re a step up from the first game and good enough to not distract from what’s happening on screen. The improvements in the Legendary Edition are largely graphical – the 4K textures are almost as sharp as a modern game, though I spotted things like guns or random props that looked a little blurry here and there.
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