10 Video Game Sequels Better Than The Original
1. Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect introduced the N7 programme and Spectres, an galactic conspiracy, and one of the biggest twists in recent gaming; the Lovecraftian Reapers.
It was going to take a lot to match Mass Effect, let alone better it.
Mass Effect 2 begins with protagonist Shepherd's death. After being brought back to life by Cerberus, whom you fought in a number of side quests in the first game, you then reluctantly team up with them to travel the Milky Way, building a powerful crew for a suicide mission into unknown space.
What's more, the more you bond with your team, and the more the stakes are raised, the more it actually feels like a suicide mission. Don't win the loyalty of your squad? They can die. Permanently. Don't prepare the Normandy for the perilous journey. They die. Don't act fast enough? Your abducted crew die. And finish the mission without a soul to help, and Shepherd dies too.
It's an epic adventure with the darkness classic of the middle of a trilogy. After the hopeful victory of the first game, the second paves the way for a final showdown. Sure, Shepherd and his crew stop the Collectors, but the game ends with the reminder that the Reapers are coming in force, and no-one knows how to stop them.
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