Yes, it's another story about an announcement for an announcement. You can insert whatever excuse (it's the weekend, people want to know, Mass Effect 2 is a big game) you want here for reporting on it. According to the ME2 Facebook fan page a surprise announcement revealing something surprising will be hitting some time this week.
Chris Priestly (or his evil doppelganger) posted this news on the page: "Man, so much time tied up today in meetings and "secret stuff" I didn't get any time with ME2 at all. =( Still with the coming surprise for next week on the ME2 website, I'm sure fans will forgive me for no update. Did I, Evil Chris Priestly, just drop a hint? Yes. Yes I did."
What could it be? Let's hope it is an announcement about how the game's terrible box art is going to be changed to something that doesn't look like the poster to a Hallmark move. Really, couldn't you just see that thing captioned with "His struggles almost killed him, but then he found friendship, laughter and love?" You'd have to take the guns out of course, but I think I'm spot on there.
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7:00 PM on 11.22.2009
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new dlc character will be Jim Sterling, and Samit as playable characters.
Samit's character has the ability to make enemies flee while he talks about sports.
While Jim's makes witty puns that give him higher xp with every kill.
Also Jim's character will have 70% more sex scenes, and Samit's will have a half a sex scene cut off by the Yankie's celebration clips after they won the 2009 world series.
all this for the low price of $2 and a meat pie
Though I guess it could be more interesting. Still looking forward to the game very much... hoping it has more than one town this time though.
I really wouldn't care about the new game+ features if I could just play it on ps3.
Ideally, I WANT AN EVEN EARLIER RELEASE DATE!!!
It better not be the GameStop preorder bonus everyone decided to ignore.
Yet another victim of the evil EA empire. EA is garbage.
I was being sarcastic in a way that no one here would know unless they knew me in real life. Fact is, some people don't want it on ps3, and I lump those people with the people who would be inclined to call me a Sony fanboy for wanting the opposite.
Just jest is all.
@ Jacob Gamer - I'm going to take that a little further: screw Shephard, I want to play as an elcor. And in every line of dialog, I expect an adjective to preemptively describe my feelings.
Or maybe I just want Shephard to talk like an elcor. Eh, I'll settle for an elcor party member XD.
And why would they announce it so soon before release, instead of months ago (so that they could promote it along with the other versions,) or after the other versions are released (if there is some kind of temporary exclusivity contract)? I'm going to guess that this surprise is going to be something else. I have no idea what, but I'm excited.
The actual ME-related surprise will be that ME2 is not the second installment in a trilogy, but will be a part of the new ME expanded universe with 3 new games announced for each console and handheld.
/conspiracy
a real surprise would be something totally unguessable by anyone outside of bioware and left only to the truly hardcore and clever about mass effect. i really love mass effect but i have an inkling it may have to do with a companion favourite:
wrex ;D
I'm torn, I want it to be on the PS3, but I want to use my save from MA1.