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| Developer: |
BioWare Corporation |
| Publisher: |
Electronic Arts Inc. |
| Genre: |
Action RPG |
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PC |
| Release Date: |
26 January 2010 |
| Language: |
English. |
| Media Size: |
6.4 GB |
| Suggested system requirements: |
Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, graphic card 256 MB (GeForce 6800 or better), 15 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7… |
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An ancient evil lies dormant within Deepholm, the domain of earth in the Elemental Plane.
Mass Effect 2 begins weeks after the ending of the first game. While
patrolling for geth, the Normandy is attacked by an unknown starship,
and many crew members die, including Navigator Pressly. The remainder of
the crew is then forced to evacuate. During the evacuation, Shepard
tosses Joker into the Normandy’s final escape pod before being blasted
into space. After a suit breach, Shepard dies of asphyxiation and
his/her body is pulled into the orbit of a nearby planet. With the help
of former squadmate Liara T’Soni, Shepard’s body is retrieved by a human
supremacist organization called Cerberus and made the subject of
“Project Lazarus,” whose only goal is Shepard’s resurrection. Once
revived, Shepard awakes aboard a besieged station, and escapes with the
help of Cerberus agent Jacob Taylor and Lazarus Project head Miranda
Lawson. Immediately after, Shepard is given an audience with the
Illusive Man, head of Cerberus.
The Illusive Man informs Shepard that entire populations of human
colonies are disappearing all over the galaxy; he believes the Reapers
are responsible, and are working by proxy through an insect-like species
called the Collectors. Shepard is convinced of the Illusive Man’s
theory after visiting a recently-attacked colony called Freedom’s
Progress, and agrees to help him stop the Collectors by eventually
traveling through the Omega-4 Relay, from which no ship has ever
returned. Shepard is given command of a new Normandy, piloted by Joker
and equipped with an onboard A.I. named EDI.
Shepard recruits four new squadmates – salarian scientist Mordin Solus,
former squadmate Garrus Vakarian, biotic convict Jack and genetically
engineered krogan Grunt – before receiving intel from the Illusive Man
that another human colony called Horizon is under attack. Despite the
influence of Harbinger, a powerful Reaper with the ability to assume
direct control of random Collectors at will, Shepard successfully stops
the attack, though a large portion of the colony’s population is
captured. Following the mission, Shepard’s reunion with former squad
mate Kaidan Alenko or Ashley Williams turns sour due to Shepard’s
alliance with Cerberus.