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    Mass Effect 2

    Game » consists of 21 releases. Released Jan 26, 2010

    After a violent death by an unknown force and a timely reanimation by the human supremacist organization Cerberus, Commander Shepard must assemble a new squad in the seedier side of the galaxy for a suicide mission in the second installment of the "Mass Effect" trilogy.

    polyorpheus's Normandy Crash Site (Xbox 360) review

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    Good emotional sidequest

    I really liked the Normandy crash site side quest, as it was not about shooting or achieving an objective, but an act of remembrance and honor to the people who died on the Normandy and to the ship itself, which was reasonably emotionally important to the Shepard character and Joker, the ship's pilot. 
     
    My favorite part was Navigator Pressly's logs of his opinion of having aliens on the Normandy change to a point where he would "die for any of them". That, coupled with the Normandy memorial statue was an awesome and different addition to the gameplay of Mass Effect 2.

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      Pretty simple mission, with a bit of nostalgic emotion. 0

      Normandy Crash Site(Xbox 360) by jayross on January 27, 2010

      The Normandy Crash site is identified, you scan the planet and beam down. You view a cutscene showing the Normandy debris among chunks of ice and snow.  The majority of the mission is collecting the 20 dog tags, these are scattered around the small-ish landscape, and are fairly easy to find if you keep an eye out for the hud outline or glow.  There are some emotional parts, you see main parts of Normandy completely destroyed, they show a flashback image of what it used to look like, or the chara...

      4 out of 6 found this review helpful.

      Nostalgic Visit 0

      Normandy Crash Site(Xbox 360) by mjgibson on January 29, 2010

      While not adding anything remarkable or game changing to Mass Effect 2, or Mass Effect, the Normandy Crash Site DLC does add a nostalgic look back at the Normandy-that-was.  The mission is quite simple: visit the crash site of the original alliance Normandy and recover dog-tags of fallen crew mates, for delivery to their families as a keepsake.  You also will place a monument at the crash site, remembering the original Normandy.  As you come across scattered pieces of the ruined starship, you wi...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
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