Being the first trailer for the hotly anticipated sequel, there is unsuprisingly very little substance revealed as its meant to be more of a teaser to get fans all riled up. At least, so one would think of a brief 60-second clip that shows no gameplay whatsoever. As anyone who has completed the first game, however, the end of the trailer comes as quite a shock, no matter what path you took through the first one.
I'm talking, of course, about the trailer's labeling of Mass Effect protagonist Commander Sheppard listed as "Killed In Action" at the hands of a Geth in the last few seconds in the trailer. Now, besides the fact that this scenario seems highly unlikely after having decimated countless geth troops with Sheppard in the first game, this snippet also seems to imply that players will not be controlling their character from the first game--a feature implied when the 'trilogy' was first announced. While technically Sheppard's decisions could still affect aliens' reaction toward a potential new protagonist, its still disappointing that we won't get to continue on with our unique characters from the first game. Part of me even wants to attribute this revelation to technical difficulties BioWare may have encountered trying to transition so many different permutations of the main character into a second chapter. Still, its very disappointing, but I guess judgement must be witheld until more solid info is revealed. But then, does this mean that we are gonna get another new character in Mass Effect 3? Suddenly, the story has lost some of its epicness.
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