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Buy the Mako from Mass Effect for your Xbox Live Avatar photo

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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Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 09:47
Tarvu
This also makes your avatar incompatible with systems the content wasn't bought on. Don't buy anything for your Avatar if you want your gamertag to be portable on a memory card.
tr0tsky's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 09:47
tr0tsky
I asked one of the developers at PAX about the Mako controls and they said they had been working a lot on it after all the "feedback" from the original :P
Los255's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 09:50
Los255
I always thought the controls were fine, but it was the goddamn terrain and mountains that slow the thing down.
Chocobo Knight's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 09:51
Chocobo Knight
Does it ping-pong across the screen too?
SuitcoatAvenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 09:56
SuitcoatAvenger
I can't wait for my Avatar to start up the Mako, only to have it fly all over the screen uncontrollably until it eventually nails him in the back of the head, thereby rendering him unconscious.
Birdman the Friendly's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 09:56
Birdman the Friendly
"vehicle physics really drove me up the wall in the first game"

I see what you did there.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 09:59
Chronic Logic
If they actually made a game where you could use your avatars, then maybe these clothing/toys would be actually worthwhile.
RestingSound's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 10:08
RestingSound
Microsoft should make a virtual world called Home where the Mii's can interact with each other and see advertisements.
CRAZYAPE69's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 10:09
CRAZYAPE69
who actually liked the MAKO?
jamBOT's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 10:09
jamBOT
I am so going to waste my money on this pointless crap. I love Mass Effects.
IV Backstab MC's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 10:59
IV Backstab MC
Holy shitz me being a huge mass effect fan and complete toll I have to buy this I still have points left over from buying crash course
IV Backstab MC's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 11:01
IV Backstab MC
Sorry complete tool I'm using my phone here
Electrium's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 11:02
Electrium
Take two bad things, put them together, and voila! MONEY.

Also, that last sentence is divinely hilarious.
timtheterrible's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 11:10
timtheterrible
They should pay me 240 moon dollars in reparation for the fail that was the Mako.
DarkMagic56's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 11:16
DarkMagic56
I actually did like the Mako... :)
wolverine's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 11:17
wolverine
THE WORST!!!

Avatars are so lame... they add nothing to playing games on 360. Just my opinion.
HEL105's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 11:21
HEL105
I didn't mind the Mako, but I'm also going to waste some points on that prop when I have some left over, so I'm probably crazy.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 11:22
BluDesign
Christ. When can I buy a fake Zune for
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.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 12:04
Char Aznable
Dumb.
Pixel Republiq's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 12:11
Pixel Republiq
Extremely disappointed in the offerings of the Avatar store. Any and all interactive items can't be seen in use by any of your friends, only you. Not to mention expensive and a small choice selection.
LongArmBleam's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 13:25
LongArmBleam
Avatar items are lame, yes...but the very idea of an RC Mako makes me giddy as a schoolgirl.
DreamingDarklyRobin's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 13:29
DreamingDarklyRobin
@ Pixel Republiq

Actually your friends can see your items and vice versa, you just have to wait a couple seconds
Dangsterr's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 15:55
Dangsterr
Reskinned warthog = mako...Microsoft disgusts me .
l0cke's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 16:24
l0cke
They fixed the handling in the PC version, so hopefully they have it down for ME2.
Zarathustra's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 16:45
Zarathustra
I still say driving the Mako in ME was fun. Maybe I am just better at it than most people. :P

Also, as much as I would love to have the avatar version, I will never ever spend money on avatar items.
Korolev's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/01/2009 10:11
Korolev
The Mako sections in the first ME were really, REALLY easy, at least on normal and on hard difficulty. The enemies almost never chased you, so you could just drive away if your shields got too low. Plus, it was impossible to turn over or crash into anything.

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.
the guy with the hat's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/01/2009 11:16
the guy with the hat
ALLREADY BOUGHT THE GUITAR PROP
jamBOT's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/12/2009 13:03
jamBOT
Well it's very cute. Totally a waste of money. But it's like, I'm driving Commander Hottie around in the Mako. But better, because it doesn't drive like a ping-pong ball.
Jizl Tizl's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2009 13:10
Jizl Tizl
I was always hoping somebody would sell a Normandy and Mako model that I could build and display proudly in my room (because that gets ALL the ladies).

Or a Normandy version of this.
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=6938
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