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Mass Effect 2 PS3 For Sale On PSN January 18

I wonder which one Shepard will endorse.

Surprise! Mass Effect 2 for the PS3 will also hit PSN on Jan. 18, the same day the boxed version hits store shelves. According to this recent reveal post on the PS blog, this digital version apparently won’t be lacking features that the physical version is shipping with, meaning you’ll get access to all the free DLC hitting with the game and, presumably, the Cerberus Network stuff as well.

Also, when you buy the digital version, you’ll get the oft-talked-about digital comic, which acts as a bridge between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. I didn’t catch this until today, but apparently this comic is also interactive, allowing you to make those important moral choices from the original ME that informs certain… situations and outcomes in the second game. 
 

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No word on the price on the digital version just yet, but I’ll note that the physical version of the port will ship at the normal $60 price tag. PS3 users, if you're down to play Giant Bomb's Game of the Year 2010, will you be seeking out a disc copy or just downloading it straight from PSN?

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Edited By Dahill

Yeah the comic. I'm not quite sure what truly is the big deal, though. Unless all you got is a PS3. Then it's a very big deal.

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@Gabriel said:
" Bullshit, not paying 60 dollars for a download when I can go buy a retail copy for the same price. "
The download is the EXACT same version as the on disc, you get all the DLC as well. So both versions are the same it boils down to if you want a disc or not.
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Edited By Gabriel

Bullshit, not paying 60 dollars for a download when I can go buy a retail copy for the same price.

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@Teoball said:
" I've played ME1 and 2 for about 200 hours each on the 360, now I'm considering getting the ps3 version. What's wrong with me? "
Nothing. Nothing at all.
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Edited By FesteringNeon

So I guess it goes without question, this is worth a $60 download soon.
Edit: oops (removing question mark)

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I've played ME1 and 2 for about 200 hours each on the 360, now I'm considering getting the ps3 version. What's wrong with me?
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Edited By sagesebas

I tried downloading it at midnight, then I woke up each hour from 7 to 10 and it didn't go on sale until ten

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Edited By Capella

Getting it on disc, because physical media that are actually in my possession are awesome. And I'm going to buy it in a retail store, too. Man, at the age of 20 I'm already an antique.

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About time. Also, an interesting way of shoehorning the backwards continuity back into the game.

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Edited By Radar

Covering all their bases. I can see this coming out soon for GoD for Xbox.

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More devs should do this, 60 bucks feels like a steal if I don't have to deal with the retail process.

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Edited By recroulette

Oh shit, this is digital too? 
 
Sony has the potential to do something genius with PS+. Make ME2 the featured game (with the one hour demo)

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Edited By Kowalski

I think I'm gonna stick to the disc version. It's a hazzle downloading games that are that big, and I need my drive space.

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Edited By masterjedirobyn

anyone know if you can just buy the interactive comic without the game? I've beaten the game 6 times on xbox, but want to play the comic.

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Edited By LordelX

I'll buy it from PSN. I would buy all my games from PSN if I could. Discs are a pain in the ass.
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Edited By Ronald

I've almost beat the on 360. Maybe I could get my roommate to buy the download version because I wouldn't mind playing that because i do love the way downloads play versus discs and you don't have to find the disc and put it in the system in order to play it.

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Edited By KillaMaStA

Disc, because it would download until spring if I tried to do it with my shitty connection
 
ME2 is like 10Gb isnt it?

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@BomberDude: It takes up about 14GB on the Xbox.
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I don't think I even wanna know how much hard drive space the digital version is gonna take up

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@Soap said:
" Ahh shit, I was hopeful I could avoid temptation on this, but if it's going to be only a few clicks away at all times I'm probably gunna fail that :( "
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Edited By WickedCobra03

I honestly just wish that they would have bundled everything on the stupid disc instead of making another "you are only getting into the party if you were a day one purchaser" flag that they are waving around.  I mean I would plan to buy it new, but I think I am just going to wait for the currently $20 dollar PC/360 version to drop to $10 again and then pick it up if I have to download stuff anyways.   
 
Would it have been all that hard to make everything in one neat little package... these stupid hooks like this just deter me from these packages or DLC add-ons.

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Edited By danimal_furry

On the one hand, if ME2 sells horribly on the PS3 (which I doubt) I won't be able to buy it used for cheap later on. On the other hand, if I wait and buy it later I will totally be able to finish my other games and enjoy ME2 and 3. Hard choice. 
 
Also, like the biggest loser of all nerds of the gaming universe, I have no wifi. It is my secret shame. That's the price of being a poor bachelor with his own home and a crappy car.

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Edited By meptron

ME2 seems awesome, but I'm not willing to spend the full price tag on a year old game with the next one less than a year away!

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Totally loving that the clothes spam sometimes has an ascii rabbit at the end =3
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Edited By Tsoglani

Definitely disc, like a few others, call me old-fashioned but I like having a physical copy of a game... maybe Im just getting old? Who cares, been anticipating this for a little while now.

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Physical copy for me.

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Downloadable version for sure!  
 
Discs blow!

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Edited By Chubbaluphigous

Disk, because the price will drop quicker.  I'm not paying $60 for a year old game that I have already played.

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Edited By KowalskiManDown

I already played through this like 4 times already... but a digital release on PSN will be hard to avoid.

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Edited By dagas

There is so much to this game. I've played it six times and yet I just spent hours on youtube seeing videos of conversations I never had and things I never saw. It's crazy how they put so much into the game that only a handful of people will ever see/hear.

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I'll be doing the downloadable version. I prefer that way because then I'll play the game more (worked for Burnout).

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Does anyone know if Mass effect 2 will be available on PSN in Europe?

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@BradNicholson 
 
How do you still only have 20 posts?
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@nohthink: Both versions come with the interactive comic.  
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I'll get it on disc.... once it comes down a bit in price that is

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@sakaro said:
" Get ready to download for an entire day... then install for another. "
@Burns098356GX said:
" Wouldnt downloading a full game the size of mass effect 2 just take way to long? Its like 12 gigs on the 360, Im assuming its going to be more on the Ps3. "
@HomemadeZiggurat said:
" I'd love to buy it digital but it would take me way too long to download 12GB. "

Finally someone agrees with me
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It's a great alternative for people who dread human interaction, shipping, or selling games after finishing them.

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finally somebody remembered this game is coming out on the ps3 this month. :)
 
I'm going to get the disc version because I don't have that much space on my ps3 and if I kept getting games, especially really big ones like this, I would run my limit and have to figure out what to do. Although now that I think about it, I should just buy a laptop hard drive and just put it in. 
 
But whatever, I'll get the disc version. I think the disc itself has all of the dlc the game is coming with so I don't have to keep anything on the system, hopefully that is true. Also, I believe the disc version has the interactive comic too I believe, surely its important enough to not make it exclusive to the PSN version.

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I was planning on going back and playing the first game, but I think this just sold me.

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Edited By Burns098356GX

Wouldnt downloading a full game the size of mass effect 2 just take way to long? Its like 12 gigs on the 360, Im assuming its going to be more on the Ps3.

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Edited By jasonefmonk

I'm still into plastic and cardboard and metal when it comes to "full sized" games. I'm okay with dropping $5-15 on DLC or small games, but Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing to prove that my purchases will be available and supported on future hardware. They've done the opposite so far actually. 
 
Only Steam and Apple's App Stores have shown their content has longevity.

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@SuperJoe said:

" Thirst! "

Clever... but did it actually work? 
 
We will never know.
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If I have the money I am definitely going to but Mass Effect 2 again. I already beat it twice on 360 and almost picked up a limited edition copy for PC today. I will probably get a boxed copy when I do get it since the PS3 downloads tend to run really slow for me.

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@Metal_Gear_Sunny: Now now, just because some of us are asleep at the wheel doesn't mean we have to yell at him that much ;) 
 
......I just preordered it the other day from gamestop, but hmm. On the one hand I'll get it quicker, on the other I won't get points from gamestop. 
  
....Yeah, sticking to disc. Even though part of me really wants to support sony getting even more PS3 games on the store. I really think most of them should be on PSN, not just the two or three big games we have now.
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No shit the comic is interactive. C'mon Brad, really!?
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Edited By the_hiro_abides

If I were to buy it a third time, I'd buy the digital one so I can be even more lazy about discs.

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I've gotta get this game, just can't bare paying £40 with the 360 version is down to £10 now.

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Edited By yyZiggurat

I'd love to buy it digital but it would take me way too long to download 12GB.

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Get ready to download for an entire day... then install for another.