14 DAY TRIAL // Florian Totu: My dealing with Mass Effect is over for now. I've finished the game with a level 42 Soldier and have the saved one all tucked away and made safe for two weeks from now when the sequel will be officially launched. BioWare has recently released the gameplay trailer for the Soldier class, and, I have to admit, I'm pretty unsatisfied with the ME1class choice I've made. And even if I'd really like to take a shot at a biotic class, I think it's time to step down from the game before I get supersaturated with it and get nauseous at the thought of more Shepard.
As such, I think this weekend, or at least a big part of it, will be dedicated to Mad Moxxi and her Underdome Riot. I've spent almost all of my Borderlands time as a dedicated single player, and had only brief multiplayer incursions, most of them in the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned. But it looks like the Underdome might be too much of a challenge in single player, even for a stubborn, old fool like me. The Dr. Ned multiplay wasn't a bad experience at all, quite the contrary, so, honestly, I don't even know why I hesitate.
Andrei Dumitrescu: The replay of the original Mass Effect is continuing this weekend. My female Commander Shepard is ready to storm the snow-capped peaks of Noveria and find a Matriarch and her Geth protectors. I forgot how quickly a fight could end, most of the time with the death of the main character, in that game and how much difference a few tweaks to the weapons and to the add-ons used on them could make.
I plan on finishing the game just before the release of Mass Effect 2 so I will take my time with my galactic adventures. And when I try to take a break from grand-scale space opera I will return to Europa Universalis III with the Heir to the Throne expansion, trying to get Aragon to be the power that dominates the Western Mediterranean and then goes on a colonization spree in the Caribbeans.