I have finished my first playthrough of Mass Effect 2 with my imported character from the first installment. In my opinion they improved a lot of aspects over ME1. You no longer have to make sure you have tech people in your party to open locks or hack computers, now you have a minigame to complete in order to access these items thus allowing you to pick who you want on your away team. No more cumbersome inventory management, instead guns are researched or found and they go into your weapons case to be chosen from before missions. Your guns do not overheat, you have ammo that you pick up off of dead enemies or that you find laying on desks etc. Ammo abilities are trained skills instead of equipped upgrades and other upgrades to equipment are researched in your lab.
All of these things seem designed to put the story first. You don't have to worry about having enough inventory space to carry every item you find so you can focus on the mission at hand. Because really.... space commandos have more to worry about than carrying 10 suits of armor and 30 guns back to their ship.
There are also a lot more varied options for romance. This is an aspect I enjoy. Bioware is excellent about inter-party relationships.
ME2 is a terrific game, it surpasses it's predecessor, and I am about to play it again!
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