20 Most Powerful Gaming Moments Of All Time
8. Mass Effect 2 (2010) - Suicide Mission
The Moment: The majority of Mass Effect 2 is spent recruiting a crack-team of intergalactic specialists for a mission to stop the Collectors and Reapers and ultimately save Bioware's beautifully realised galaxy. For each character there is a loyalty mission to complete. When all the characters are obtained preparation begins for the suicide mission. Now this is as daunting as it sounds. Many of your prior decisions affect the outcome and any member of the squad you have laboured building and winning the loyalty of can die. Even you.
How Is It Powerful? These arent the sort of squad mates you get in games like Medal of Honour. They arent nameless cannon fodder; they become your friends, allies, and in some cases lovers. You learn about their pasts and you experience all the quirks of their personalities.
You can listen to the eccentric Mordin Solus sing a rather hilarious song about being a scientist or learn Thane Krios is suffering from a terminal illness - you actually care about these people and they can all die because of your ill-informed choices. Forgot to upgrade the ship? Someone dies. Send the wrong person to do a specific job? They die. The decisions you make in this game are so important and no one wants to be left with survivor's guilt.