![]() The purpose of this interactive introduction to Mass Effect 2 is to fill in some of the story a player might have missed from the original Mass Effect, and allow them to make critical decisions that would have been made during the first game and will have an effect on the world in the second. This is a free DLC for PS3 players, since the original Mass Effect was not available on that platform when Mass Effect 2 was initially released. ![]() I believe the "comic book story" you're referring to is Mass Effect: Genesis. Just plug them in and their funny little calculator brains will work their magic.Addendom to answer, to address the "comic book story" issue: Yes, he goes rogue and is overwhelmed by the VI and the project itself is a failure, but the game accepts the initial premise - autistic people are just computers. When David is hooked up to the computer, it works. ![]() Sure, Shep saves the day and rescues David, and the one who hooked David up to the computer - his own brother, no less - is depicted as the villain, but it’s not so much the treatment of David within the game that’s troublesome as it is the treatment of David by the game. It’s such an obvious thing to say that it feels almost silly to write it, but if the argument for Overlord is that it has ‘aged badly’, there is an implication that even if it’s underlying ideas were always bad - a la Sex and the City - the way Overlord presented them was at least socially acceptable. ![]() We knew in 2010 that autistic people were real people. Overlord is not the same as Sex and the City saying ‘trannies’ back when everyone did. ![]()
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