Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Massively Effective




HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YEAH!!!!

Despite only being an hour instead of the promised 90 minutes Bring Down the Sky was pretty fun. It wasn't really as full as one of the main missions but it had so much more to do then every other side mission in the game. A lot of the hour was unfortunately taken up with bouncing the Mako around another square map but even that was a lot better then usual. It seems like the landscape was designed well enough to facilitate any way you might choose to approach it which prevented any of that damn choking the Mako up cliffs for half an hour and some really inventive use of the props to make the battles that took place inside seem a lot less typical. Not only that but it adds a whole new map for the finale. After so many tedious hours running into the same mine and two complexes a whole new arena to fight in really excited me more then I want to admit.

And after another run through to pick the paragon choices I believe that I'm ready to finally put Mass Effect up on the shelf and get back to spending my evenings with real people who probably thing that I'm a dousche for spending so much time busting space criminals and teaching alien women how to love in ways that 14 year old kids can legally see at the movies.