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Mass Effect 2 Vanguard Video

Combat designer Christina Norman walks you through the Vanguard class.

Jan. 6 2010

Posted by: Ryan

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Mass Effect 2

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Edited By ptys

I love how this guy talks! "When you play Mass Effect... you'll want to play the..." So nerdy/corporate... but real!

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@Deusoma said:
" @Nintaiyo said:
" The blood or whatever that appears on the borders of the screen when you get hit look pretty dumb. "
To be fair, it looks better than the strawberry jam that appears on the screen in Modern Warfare 2. "
agreed
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Holy shit...
They just made my favourite class even better.

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@Nintaiyo said:
" The blood or whatever that appears on the borders of the screen when you get hit look pretty dumb. "
To be fair, it looks better than the strawberry jam that appears on the screen in Modern Warfare 2.
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Sweet power.

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So many trailers for this game. But its gonna be awesome!

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@Blair:
its sad to say i might also seeing as i did that with dragon age....
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Edited By Nintaiyo

The blood or whatever that appears on the borders of the screen when you get hit look pretty dumb.

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 :( ... no barrier?
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Sweet.  I played through the first game as a Vanguard - Shock Trooper, so I'll definitely be sticking with it for the second game.

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Edited By ahoodedfigure

I like that each class has a power to help define them.  I can see myself trying to abuse this power, though, and zap myself to a place I'm not supposed to be ;)

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@Skytylz said:
" first "
Is there a point to that?
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Edited By MachoFantastico

They've really improved the classes, now it's a tough decision to choose which type to be. 

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Dude... dude... DUDE.
 
Fucking. Awesome. Damn, now I won't be able to choose between my Adept or Vanguard for my first ME2 playthrough.
 
Probably going Adept, for the sheer Biotic Powerhouse that it is.

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Im going vanguard on this game!

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@Derios said:

" I liking the new vid player, i always found it annoying that i couldn't jump forward. "

  huhuhuh jump forward LIKE A VANGUARD    
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I literally cant wait for this game, the only this that I don't like is how they obscure your vision when you get shot, no game should do that at all. 

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I'm going to have to play this game 6 times...
 
Cannot wait.

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@John: Is that the only comment that John has? ... shall I say lame? heh
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Edited By Donos

Charge ability thingamajig looks cool but... eh screw shotguns. Also, the health effect burns my eyes. It looks like something a 7th grader would draw on their binder.

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New video player is completely broken as far as my internet goes.  Good bye giant bomb.  I loved you so.

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Awesome, glad I went vanguard in the first game.

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kewl.

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Edited By FunExplosions

So I just looked it up. Christina Norman is, in fact, a woman.  ...I know, right?

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wouldn't be mass effect without millions of useless, random white boxes lying around.

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Edited By Yummylee

Tis be my first ME2 class, since its the Sheperd i'll be bringing from the original ME.
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Edited By MeatSim

Yup, this is my class.

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@TripMasterMunky:
That movie is already up on the main website. Infiltrators get a temporary invisibility so they can 'set up the perfect shot'.
Pretty neat for the name of the class. It was lacking an infiltration skill to begin with :p
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As excited as I am for this game, I'm not gonna lie, all these classes kinda look the same.

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Can't wait to see the Infiltrator video. I loved playing as that class in the first one.

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Awesome!!!!!! My save file is a Vanguard so hope they're kickass

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Edited By bubahula

 i wonder if they are going to do this for soldier? 
i want to see what they have changed about the skill set. it seems like hes about ammo use, im not sure if i like that.

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AWESOME.

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GET HYPE!!!!

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Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

I don't feel like this video gave us that good an idea of what the Vanguard class is like. However, that biotic charge is damn cool.

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That. Looks. AWESOME.

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Interesting, we'll see how it really feels.
 
It's really distracting that uh "Christina" is the narrator, though. It's great and all that the hormones seem to be working though.

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That's the only ability?  meh.. guess I'm sticking with my Engineer then.

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@Yzzerdd said:
"I love how every one of these class videos tells how how each class is the best one. The low health effect looks horrible, I'm tired of that effect in every game now. "

Yeah, on the BioWare forums there's been a lot of complaining about those veins but then a developer came in and said the whole team loved the effect so it wasn't going to change (this is about a month ago).
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That's the only ability?  meh.. guess I'm sticking with my Engineer then.

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That's the only ability?  meh.. guess I'm sticking with my Engineer then.

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I played as Vanguard in the first Mass Effect.  Might have to go that route again after seeing some of that gameplay.

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Vanguard was the best class in ME.

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@Floppypants: You'll be able to change your class + characters look when you import, only thing thats set is the gender I believe.
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That's it! I'm changing from soldier to vanguard.

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Extremely Tactical! Holy Shit!
 
that being said, the vanguard (or whatever it was called) was the best class in ME1, though the soldier was pretty ok.

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Watching all these videos is making it very difficult deciding if I want to import my soldier.

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looks great

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I'm liking the new vid player, i always found it annoying that i couldn't jump forward.

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@giyanks22 said:
How exactly is it  a "tactial" move. It looks more like a Berserker move than anything else. "
I see it as a way of teleporting around the field, not just bashing into people. It's hard to hit someone when they're moving all over the place and then moving on before you can get a shot off. :3 
 
And if you teleport and someone's in the way, they fly off. And then get a shotgun to the face. 
 
I'm happy about the shotgun. That thing was my one hit kill in ME1 when I upgraded it with the One Shot explosive rounds. XD