Gameplay 8/10
Everything ran rather smoothly. Talking options are nice and I really enjoyed the paragon and renegade trigger parts. The combat is exciting, the power and weapon management is just as good as the first and although I was reluctant in assigning buttons for quick power use I found it was a heck alot more useful than I realised. The enemy ai seems smart enough but I found them walking towards me like an easy target too much, the team ai works good taking cover when necessary and I love that I can now order my team to the right spots. The downsides I saw was somtimes I couldn't jump over a wall properly or somehow float on top of a box and I have had this annoying glitch when shooting behind a wall and then taking cover again but I end up sliding back behind cover without any animation
. The most boring part of the game is scanning planets for resources but at least you can somtimes find an anomaly and get a mission.Graphics 9.5/10
In short awesome. The cinematics were my favourite parts especialy in the suicide mission. obviously the annoying scenery loading from the first game is gone but now replaced with boring long loading area parts (I suppose the only downside for not getting it for PC) but at least you arn't stuck staring at a blank wall while waiting. The animations are mostly nice and smooth with only rare glitches, I found while running with a pistol seems to look weirder than the last game. I liked walking on the normandy on the first game but now shepard walks really slow like
. Weapons and Armour looks nice and to be able to customise the N7 armour and although the collector and dragon armour is cool looking I wish they had the option to remove the helmet.Sound 9/10
The voices sounded good and natural to me, the weapons and objects all felt good. I think the music is nice but I preferred the first game music that's why it isn't a 10/10.
Replay value 6/10
I would give it a 4/10 but I guess I'm in a odd mood about replaying games these days. Going through the game a second time just seems to be boring for me even though I enjoy the game alot
.OVERALL 9/10
Definitely much improved over the first one and I'm betting things will be even better for the next one. Oh and don't make Shepard dance
for the sake of others.
