Thought I'd give my impressions so far before I am taking a 5 day break due to a short vacation trip (if the snow lets us).

I really love it and it's superior to the first part in every section so far. The more often I think back on the first, the more I doubt I'll replay it any time soon, mostly thanks to the tiring Mako missions, which simply were not as much fun as running around with your team.

I love the immediate interrupt buttons, I even sometimes push the Defiant one, just to see what happens, although my Shepherd is as righteous as they come.

One thing I am wondering about is the weapon locker. The guns do not have statistics, so I usually stick with the one I got the latest and hope that it's the best. Or maybe there is no best, but just best suitable for certain situations? In which case they probably should have put a few statistics behind each.

The probing for minerals is fine, I just sometimes don't feel like doing it much when I only have 2 hours to spare and want to spend them fighting instead of scanning. But the idea of upgrades depending on those is pretty decent.

As for the story, I am ready to go into the Collector's space, I have all team members that were on the list. However, I still have a few personal missions for my crew to follow and I greatly enjoy these so far. The game already feels a lot longer and complex than the first.

Looking forward to continuing next week. I'll probably stick to Miranda as love interest, although flirting with Kelly is fun. Tali is somewhat hot, but I can't get over the fact that she only has three fingers. I dunno how I missed that during part 1