Mass Effect 2 has "sold-in" over two million units worldwide in less than a week, claims EA, making the BioWare RPG the "first blockbuster of 2010".
The stellar numbers (which are based on "internal EA data") have been achieved despite the sequel only being on sale in North America since Tuesday - and released in Europe just today.
"Mass Effect 2 has earned 40 perfect scores, amassed over 30 editor's choice awards and is donning the front cover of 20 magazines worldwide," said EA.
"On launch day, the term 'Mass Effect' was in the top 10 trending topics on Twitter and most searched on Google News. MSNBC.com said, 'Mass Effect will go down as one of the most influential video game series of all-time on the Xbox 360 platform'."
Dr. Ray Muzyka, BioWare co-founder, added: "Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010. We could not be more proud of the game's universal acclaim and early commercial success."
That's a lot of willy-waving there. Check out our Mass Effect 2 review, if you haven't already.
I thought ME2 was being overrated, but I was wrong. I had my copy delivered yesterday, and have already racked up about 12 hours :/ And I've been hugely cutting back how much I play games. It's fantastic, so much smoother and slicker than ME1, combat is almost perfect, voice acting is brilliant pretty much everywhere, loads of cool touches on the new ship.
Bioware deserves this success. They listened to the fans and made a great game.
MAG has stiffer competition in the form of Modern warfare 2, Killzone 2, and Bad Company 2 around the corner. Plus it's a online game only which will turn off even more people. Mass effect 2 has no competition and is a sequel to a very good game. See the difference?.
I got Mass effect 2 today but can't play it yet. Playing the first game so I can load a save up in the sequel and have my choices from the first game have a impact on the story in Mass effect 2.
Sounds like they've done a good job for this sequel, so it selling well is a good sign. It won't make me go out and buy a 360 (no third time's the charm for me), but I'll let my friends know about it
MAG has stiffer competition in the form of Modern warfare 2, Killzone 2, and Bad Company 2 around the corner. Plus it's a online game only which will turn off even more people. Mass effect 2 has no competition and is a sequel to a very good game. See the difference?.
I got Mass effect 2 today but can't play it yet. Playing the first game so I can load a save up in the sequel and have my choices from the first game have a impact on the story in Mass effect 2.
Definitely worth it IMO. I transferred a level 50 character from "ME1" who was rich, had completed all the resource gathering side-missions and had only 1 Renegade point and a completely filled Paragon metre. I started at level 3, got an additional 100,000 credits on top of the 30,000 you start with, along with 5,000 units of each of the four rare elements (which you will need for research and upgrades in "ME2" and had about 1/8th of my Paragon metre filled already which helps with Paragon persuasion/charm dialogue options. Besides, the game does actually refer to decisions you make in "ME1" via background news announcements and the odd NPC standing around in different parts of "ME2".
sorry everone i was making a point when i said that mag would not sell and i was correctomundo lol f**k you ps3 f***yboy
if he's older 10 than i would be shocked, he really let's down your x-box community, yh i know ps3f***yboy can be as bad to lol.
Anyway, well done to ME2 i'm sure you deserve all the praise you've gotten As for MAG, no-one thought it would be a system seller except SONY. All us ps3 users are really waiting for (well me at least) GOW III, and that probs won't score or sell as well as ME2...but we don't care and neither should you, just enjoy whatever YOUR playing and laugh at the haters.
Peace be with you, all of you...yes even the Wii community
Never played the first game and after about 6 hours of play in the sequel i'm pretty hooked. Graphics are bog standard but its the battle system and story telling thats got me still playing this game. Not 10/10 but 9/10 for me.
Too right! Mass Effect 2 is one of best games I have ever played, if not the best. Bioware do it again, hats off to you all and thank you for such a great game.
Could've done with a demo, just isn't my type of game. Just one of those games, the more perfect scores and hype it gets the more disappointed I am when I finally see what all the fuss was about.
The game looks amazing but being a beat'em up/shooter fan, i really need to know how the action side of this game plays?Anyone care to comment?
The only RPG's i play are the zelda series, as Mass effect has sold so many i'll probably pick it up in the second hand stores!
The first game was more of an RPG with shooter elements bolted on. Mass Effect 2 is more of a shooter with the RPG elements trimmed down.
It works all the better for it and this game actually does a great job of combining the incredible immersion of the Mass Effect story with a more traditional 3rd person shooter.
I would say you shouldn't worry about action because this game is full of it.
I love it. How do they create such a believable and diverse world to play in that seems so large.
Yeah, thought the start was very strong and atmospheric. Sound and visuals are top draw. Really not keen on the EAisms though. An EA published title always bears too many hallmarks. Mission end screens are not what I want to see in an RPG.
Shooting is far better but still feels a bit unsatisfying compared to bona fide shooters although the powers are far better implemented. The thermal clip idea is really contrived though.
The interaction with characters can be stilted at times but the voice acting is generally very good.
Overall, yeah good. Glad I rented though as I know it's going to be done in a week and I've never been one for multiple play throughs for something as conversation heavy as this.
I'm pretty impressed by how well it's doing so far.
Has anyone here seen the advert for the game in the UK.. It has to be one of the poorest game adverts I've seen for such a big game. If I didn't know what I already know about the game, I probably wouldn't be that impressed. I personally think they should've used that cinematic trailer that was released in December.. It has such a better impact than that p**s poor one they've used..
Copyright 2006 - 2009 Future Publishing Limited, Beauford Court, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, UK BA1 2BW England and Wales company registration number 2008885
haha and mag has only sold 100,000 copies in the states lol THATS A SYSTEM SELLER SONY 
