Jennifer Hale - the voice of female Shepard. She does not like video games.

But for the Tom Bissell's article in New Yorker she agreed to play Mass Effect 2.

Jennifer played a calm Shepard, because she wanted to hear how it sounds neutral cues in the game. In her opinion it is the most complex type of dialogue for the record, because of measure out filling energy. 

Hale had time about an hour with game. She believes that the first branch of the dialog Mass Effect 2 might be recorded better. In general, she like the game, but it was unusual with the right stick.

Via Kotaku

25-th time Golden Joystick ceremony happened just a few days before. Games, which were released between August 2009 and August 2010, were competing for rights to be called Best of the Best. 1.543.309 people submitted their voices.

Well, Mass Effect 2 is the best of the best of the best. It is win not only RPG of the Year, but the Ultimate Game of the Year too. Guitar Hero 5 become Music game of the Year and Final Fantasy XIII has Soundtrack of the Year. That’s a strange. There are many good nominees, which you can see below:

• Assassin’s Creed II
• Brutal Legend
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Final Fantasy XIII
• GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City
• Halo 3: ODST
• Heavy Rain
• Mass Effect 2
• Metro 2033
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

As you see, nominees are worth every penny, so we are a little bit surprised.

Seems, Electronic Arts - knock on wood! - better than others knows how to make money from publishing soundtracks (even exclusively in digital form! No costs for drawing covers and stamping disks, besides, they sell badly). Also making wide music collection not only devalues ripper’s efforts but gains some profit.

So, last month «Electronics» issued 20 minute EP Mass Effect 2: Atmospheric Additional Videogame Score. As you’ve guessed, we have some atmospheric ambient-tracks, and today we’ve got a new one, a half an hour's playing Mass Effect 2: Combat. It’s a collection of unique, never published before action-tracks from the game. Altogether, truly saying, it’s the third album of full value in addition to the main one.

We hope it’s only the beginning of a good tradition. And, maybe, this might be a good example for other publishers (hello, Ubisoft!).