Collider wrote...
I bought ME2 because I liked the first game. Unfortunately they did not make the Reapers interesting - in fact, they made them hilarious (all thanks to my friend Harbinger), nor did they make Shepard interesting, so I can't say I'd buy the third game if my favorite characters are universally absent.
ME1 - Saren: "I'm not doing this for myself. Don't you see? Soveriegn will succeed. It is inevitable. My way is the only way any of us will survive. I'm forging an alliance between us and the Reapers. Between organics and machines! And in doing so, I will save more lives than have ever existed!
ME2 - Harbinger: "LOL I OWN YOU!"
Having said that, the character depth and especially facial expressions and body animations, were 10x better in ME2. Hard to not get attached. But if Garrus is gone, then there's no reason they wouldn't cut Tali and all the rest, too. So no I couldn't buy ME3.
When you all hear that your squaddies will be reduced to cameos, ohh...the hell that will break loose. I can't wait