Over on the Xbox Live Marketplace, a new prop has appeared in the Avatar Store. You are now able to purchase an RC replica of the Mako craft used to cart Commander Shepherd and crew around the surface of alien worlds in Mass Effect for a measly 240 Microsoft SpaceBucks.
I think it's been pretty well-established that buying items for your Avatar is a moronic use of your money, but I'm sure these things will sell just fine. Perhaps not as well as the Warthog RC car prop, but there's no shortage of idiots in the world and there's no doubt that at least a few of them are Mass Effect fans.
If I should ever wind up in a situation where I'm forced to choose between buying the avatar item or driving the Mako in Mass Effect, I'm probably going to have to take the prop. Call me crazy, but the vehicle physics really drove me up the wall in the first game and I'm really hoping it's been improved for the sequel.
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9:40 AM on 09.30.2009
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I see what you did there.
Also, that last sentence is divinely hilarious.
Avatars are so lame... they add nothing to playing games on 360. Just my opinion.
my avatar so I can buy him videos from the fake Zune marketplace that I can't watch?
I bet that's the next new trend.
Actually your friends can see your items and vice versa, you just have to wait a couple seconds
Also, as much as I would love to have the avatar version, I will never ever spend money on avatar items.
The driving took a little getting used to, but I still can't understand the difficulty people had with the Mako physics. The only complaint I had was the aiming system - even if it LOOKED like you could target an enemy on the screen, if you weren't below or level with the enemy, your shot would miss due to the fact that the barrel can't aim DOWN.
I know they won't, but I hope they do get rid of the Mako. Not because it was hard to drive, but because the sections were too easy.
Or a Normandy version of this.
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