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Mass Effect 2: January 26

That's soon!

"Shepard." 
OK, this is waaaay sooner than I was expecting it, but that's by no means a bad thing. It just means that we'll be playing Mass Effect 2 relatively soonish, because BioWare and EA have announced a January 26 release date for the game on Xbox 360 and PC. That's for North America. Europe will see the game on shelves a few days later, on January 29.

I guess that's it, so... oh hey, they also mention a couple of pre-order incentives. What, you thought 2010 was going to be different? If you slap down your money at GameStop, you'll get download codes for the "Terminus Gear," which includes a weapon and some armor. Here's the company line on those:
  • The Terminus Armor is designed for use in extreme planetary conditions, increasing run speed and personal shields, and augmenting weapons with an additional magazine of reserve ammo.
  • The M-90 Blackstorm Heavy Weapon generates a high-powered localized gravity well, accelerating particles to near-infinite mass,  and ultimately expanding the selection of heavy weapons available to players when they gear up for combat missions in Mass Effect 2.
If you pre-order from some other participating North American retailer, you'll end up with "Inferno Armor," which offers a negotiation bonus, increased run speed, and a damage bonus for your combat powers.

If you don't pre-order, you'll get some kind of plastic "box" that has a disc or disc-like device inside that says "Mass Effect 2" on it. If this Mass Effect 2 thing is as cool as the last one, that'll probably still be a pretty good deal.
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Sweet

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That is awesome.  It'll make the wait for SC II and Diablo III more bearable.

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Shepard.
That is all.

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I am oh so happy about this news.
 
I hate pre-order incentives, though.

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HOT DIP! Next years starting off with a bang.

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Oh man, my birthday is like three weeks before the game comes out....fuck I'm excited

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I smell asset recycling. Hopefully they didn't just put the old tea-bag into some fresh water and called it a day.

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Oh Yeah.

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well this just made my friggin day....time to schedule a little bit of vacation time around this date
 
and yea, as if i didnt have enough games to playing, now i have to go back and make sure my save file from ME1 is ready to go for this one. has bioware announced if its just story choices that will be carried over? or will like attributes carry over to some degree as well. I cant imagine they would let me start ME2 with a fully souped up Biotic but hey, stranger things have happened

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That's Soon!

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Awesome... can't wait till January 26th. Loved the first, hopefully this is just as good or even better.

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man, im gonna have to make sure my save file is good to go from mass effect 1.
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Pretty good birthday gift lol.

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Too  good to be true. Too good.
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Like this.

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Hellz yeah.

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"Shepard." 
OK, this is waaaay sooner than I was expecting it, but that's by no means a bad thing. It just means that we'll be playing Mass Effect 2 relatively soonish, because BioWare and EA have announced a January 26 release date for the game on Xbox 360 and PC. That's for North America. Europe will see the game on shelves a few days later, on January 29.

I guess that's it, so... oh hey, they also mention a couple of pre-order incentives. What, you thought 2010 was going to be different? If you slap down your money at GameStop, you'll get download codes for the "Terminus Gear," which includes a weapon and some armor. Here's the company line on those:
  • The Terminus Armor is designed for use in extreme planetary conditions, increasing run speed and personal shields, and augmenting weapons with an additional magazine of reserve ammo.
  • The M-90 Blackstorm Heavy Weapon generates a high-powered localized gravity well, accelerating particles to near-infinite mass,  and ultimately expanding the selection of heavy weapons available to players when they gear up for combat missions in Mass Effect 2.
If you pre-order from some other participating North American retailer, you'll end up with "Inferno Armor," which offers a negotiation bonus, increased run speed, and a damage bonus for your combat powers.

If you don't pre-order, you'll get some kind of plastic "box" that has a disc or disc-like device inside that says "Mass Effect 2" on it. If this Mass Effect 2 thing is as cool as the last one, that'll probably still be a pretty good deal.