BTW, anyone wanna give a mini-review of Mass Effect 2?
It just went on sale here, and although I'm kinda interested in the idea of a SF RPG, I'm wary of Bioware since DA:O turned out to be such a disappointment (great engine and graphics, nice menus, nice combat -- but super-lazy-ass totally-on-rails-even-though-we're-pretending-it's-not gameplay).
Just so you know where I'm coming from, I much preferred ESIV:O, despite it's myriad flaws (and they are myriad), simply because it does a much better job of letting you bum around and do what you want. So is ME2 a DA:O-style bullshit RPG, or does it give you a measure of freedom?
[Argh, wikipedia mentions that ME2 has the issue of unreadable-on-SDTV text... and I have a SDTV... (bioware bullshit excuse: "it was a design decision" (read: "we didn't think about it, and our testing on high-resolution monitors didn't reveal any problems...").]