Mass Effect 2 Preview

Giant Bomb adds some thoughts on the Asari companion Samara based on their own hands-on experience, after the character was revealed at GameSpot earlier (they also mirror the video if you haven’t seen it yet).

Samara’s an Asari, one of the blue, sort of mystical, ladylike beings from the first game. But her demeanor is about 180 degrees from the steady, contemplative cool of your previous Asari squadmate, Liara. Samara is a justicar, a hot-blooded vigilante bent on exacting justice upon the galaaxy’s lawless scum. She operates within her own questionable but nonetheless specific moral code, which makes her a good fit for the rogues’ gallery Shepard appears to be constructing in this sequel. She’s also an intensely powerful biotic character, so–while I didn’t get to play her, myself–you can probably expect to fling a lot of enemies to and fro with her abilities.
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The brief mission I played had me running after Samara on the Asari homeworld of Illium, where she was herself on the trail of a group of mercenaries whom she was hellbent on bringing to justice. I don’t want to give away too much of what was a pretty cool narrative interlude (albeit one that may or may not have much bearing on Mass Effect 2’s core storyline), so I’ll only say that the investigation into the mercs’ operations went deeper than expected into a series of tangled events, and everything was not as it seemed, even with the minor characters involved. There were some tense exchanges of dialogue, a few quick decisions to make… and Samara threw someone out a window. Pretty good stuff.