

As Shepard heads to the bridge to rescue the pilot, Joker, you enter an area where the hull has been breached and the Normandy is open to space. It looks terrific – there's a noticeble step up in the quality of the graphics from Xbox to PS3 – and the game almost immediately gives you a perfect sci-fi moment. Mass Effect 2 launches mid-action, with a breath-catchingly dramatic disaster on the SSV Normandy. Reckon that's enough time? Wait until you've tried the game: deep like a black hole and with a similarly powerful gravitational hold on you, Mass Effect 2 is the kind of life-devouring entity that Shepard would usually be trying to dispatch from the nearest airlock. This re-release of the previously Xbox and PC-only RPG comes ahead of the multi-platform arrival of Mass Effect 3 this winter, which means that Sony types have got most of the year to get the hang of being Commander Shepard on a universe-saving mission. P layStation space marines, you can cancel your defection to a rival console planet: Mass Effect has come to PS3.
