She also has Overload, which makes her a good choice for missions with lots of synthetics and/or shield-users. I know I’ve blown a lot of Medigel on her thusfar. This has the unfortunate side effect of leaving her exposed, quite often near enemy lines, so you need to be careful with how she uses it. She’ll vanish for a few seconds and then reappear, standing behind her target and doing massive damage.
Her main defining power is Shadow Strike, which is your standard “dirtbag rogue” maneuver. Sadly she really suffers in the health department, which can make these close-range forays potentially fatal without some decent fire support. Broadly, she’s a tech/combat type similar to Garrus, but whilst Garrus was a distance specialist, Kasumi likes to get up close and personal. In game, Kasumi’s got an interesting niche. Bioware try their best to make her as distinct from the other main female characters in the game (six if you want to count Yeoman Chambers and EDI), but the limited interactivity stunts that.
From the trailer, I was expecting an ubercompetant badass, somewhere between Jack and Miranda, but there’s a bit more whimsy and charm in there. Kasumi’s personality is hard to pin down. You don’t even get the ship AI telling you which corner of the ship they’ve made their home in, and when you do track their little hideyhole down, it’s the same deal as Zaeed, no dialogue, just click on the artifact and they’ll tell you a little story about it.īut hey, whatcha gonna do? Get Bioware to reunite the entire cast to record a few lines of dialogue each every time they release a new DLC pack? It’d be nice but I don’t see it happening. That’s it: No lengthy outerspace dungeon crawl to get their attention, no conversation with your current crew members about how they’ve always admired/hate the guts of your newest acquisition, they’re just… there. You get a notification to go to location “X”, make contact with a specialist who then joins your crew and immediately gives you a mission they’d like your help with. So what did I get for the price of a couple of pints? Well, if you downloaded the Zaeed DLC at launch, then the experience is uncannily similar. Fifteen minutes later, I’m 560 MS points lighter and I’ve downloaded a 750 meg DLC package. Ok, fanboy gushing out of the way, I loaded up ME2 last night out of boredom and noticed, “hey the Kasumi DLC pack’s out!”.
It wasn’t perfect planet scanning sucked and I really found explicitly tying your morality options to your persuasion options tended to encourage you to “game” the roleplaying or miss out on the cool stuff but it’s the best console RPG I’ve played bar none, even eclipsing Bioware’s own Knights of the Old Republic. It married a solid 3rd-person cover-shooter to Bioware’s leanest RPG system yet to create an action RPG that actually delivered both Action and a solid degree of roleplaying. Yes, I know it came out in the first month of the year, but really it set the bar too impossibly high for any other game to possibly compete. Mass Effect 2 is my favourite game of 2010.
0 kommentar(er)
