24 February 2009
Mass Effect 2 Trailer Revealed
BioWare has released a teaser trailer for its highly anticipated sequel to Mass Effect, and the brief new video raises as many questions as it answers about the company’s upcoming sci-fi RPG.
The video transmission begins mundanely enough. A blue planet looms in space, framed by a field of stars. A readout is quickly overlaid on-screen, spelling out the basic identification information for Commander Shepard, the hero you created and got to know over the course of the first Mass Effect game:
Alliance Service Record 5923-AC-2826
Commander Shepard, SSV Normandy
Born: 4.11.2154
Enlisted: 4.11.2172
Then the transmission, which is intermittently broken up by static, switches to a slow vertical pan of a metallic object while additional information about Shepard’s service record ticks by. The viewer is introduced to some of the more spectacular feats undertaken by your character in Mass Effect:
Notable Service:
Liberation of Eden Prime
Siege of the Citadel
First human Spectre
But what begins as an innocuous recounting of Shepard’s life takes a more ominous tone as the music grows darker and the nature of the information begins to change. Now we’re told about Shepard’s “known alien associates,” including Liara T’Soni, Garrus Vakarian, Tali’zorah Nar Rayya and Urdnot Wrex (all members of your party in Mass Effect 1).
And then, as the metal surface is revealed to have an N7 logo (the highest-ranking special ops designation), the bombshell drops:
Status: Killed in action
