You'll love the 2nd, and it will eat your social life away until you finish it. Me, on the other hand, took away mostly just sleeping time. lol.
I won't say anything about it cause I don't want to spoil it, but lemme know when you finish it, curious to see what ending you'll get.
i finally finished it last night lol.
I finished with everyone still alive including all the crew because i rock lol. I got to the crew just in time before they were squished up and fed through those tubes. But i never activated Legion before i went to the final mission. I brought him back from that mission where you get the IFF and i chose to hold onto him rather than giving him to Cerburas but i got the impression that the crew were fucked if i waited around to activate him and do his loyalty mission so i just went straight to the final mission. I did activate after i completed the final mission though but i hope he will still be there if i use this save game in ME3. i guess i can always do it again if not.
The first time i played that part where you knocked the human reaper by shooting those tubes, i chose to keep the Collector ship and hand it over to Cerburas but i got the impression afterwards that this was a bad choice so i reloaded it and did it again and this time i chose to blow it up. The ending was great
Overall, an excellent game but i think its much more of a shooter than an RPG. There wasnt as much freedom to move around planets and other areas like you had in ME. There are RPG elements in it but Mass Effect was pretty much half shooter, half RPG. The weapons were much better than in ME but you couldnt customise them as much as you could in ME. I think that part with Legion was a little bit confusing as well. I think that you should have acquired him earlier in the game. but overall, a great game.
And i didnt fuck any of my crew. My good Paragon Sheppard stayed loyal to Ashley lol.
Next playthrough though, Miranda is getting it in the ass.