Refunded. EA had the switch pulled off on the online services and achievements are no longer obtainable.

The game is unplayable. There are no servers for this game to play it on. After a small intro scene the game ends up in an infinite loading screen. This game should not be sold.

I had many high hopes in the game - and while it has many great things about it, it just is a frustrating expirience:
1) You need to grind basic movement skills in the beginning, which you had in ME1.

2) this entire character skilltree stuff makes no sense when you need to unlock every single skill at the end anyways -> there is no specializiation. So it was plain the "what do we need to to?" game designers brainfart typical for every game nowadays

3) there is way too much annoying stuff to collect: Gridlocks, Security Chips - hundreds of them. They occupy your vision and you feel obligated just for "cleaning the map" to get rid of them. But anyways, if you do so, the flow is destroyed. The concept is to have one run threw a new area and one run back collecting them, but most of the time they are so close together that you do not follow a nice flow but just go zig-zag collecting them.

4) there are some areas that are "bugged": Too dark, so you cant see at all (f.e. Billboard in Eden Village), others (Billboard in the construction zone) which you cant reach.

5) that issue is so bad, some runs are "not possible": f.e. meta grid run for plastic in the construction zone. super annoying

6) and now the worst to me: You have so many obstacles in the map, with small edges and stuff, that you constantly die. It is such annoying: Taking a zip line - jumping off in the perfect spot, congrats you will die because you bounce from some angled surface. Running around and jumping from some ledge? you will die due to some small edge that blocked your way from grabbing onto the right thing. Need to double wall jump some area? Make sure to freaking face the wall you jump onto in a 45° angle (totally nonsens) instead of having a flat angle like you are running straight with just minor adjustment to the side

7) the drop-off "side missions" are annoying: The timing of some is on point without any spare seconds left, so you will fail quite some time before finishing them. Other missions than are too easy and you finish with like 10seoncds+ on the clock. The missions also do repeat and take the same route sometimes. The NPC drop offs are super annoying: They make a fuzz out of getting some vial to another NPC in like 45 seconds - but stand all day long waiting for you to engage them. This feels too cheap for me: The devs werent creative enough to think of some real missions, and how to implement their goal of "run against the clock" in a better way than this. So all the drop-off missions, all the Dash Missions, all the Meta-Grid missions, they are plain boring.
Same goes for the gridLock towers: You need them to unlock tast travel locations. While fast travel can be handy, the purpose of the game is running so Im conflicted on that. Anyways: They are boring. You get in, climb them in 5-10 Minutes after falling to death a couple of times when you first try it, and thats it.
All in all: Only the main missions are the fun ones - focus on them, even if you are a side mission person, because all side missions are the same: Run against the clock for 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Done. Repeat. Your map will be cluttered with so much stuff to do if you dont clean it up but at least you dont waste 10-20 hours in real life due to some boring clock-runs.

8) The entire harbor area also has so many wrong design elements and quirky glass that require you to slide under - even if they look like a regular door height you could run threw.

9) This list of negatives goes on and on.
The game is unfinished - the devs didnt refined many areas - and since 2024 EA decided to make it abondonware while still selling it (even with sales) in the EA or Steam store: You need to modify some minor things to make it run - while you can never get all achievments, and you can not get all the tags/emblems etc. you unlock.

10) I also liked ME1 because you can pick up enemy weapons, so it was a question of your character if you use these or not. With ME2 they were too lazy to implement gun features and went with the cheap excuse of biometric locked weapons. omfg.

11)The fighting experience is pretty bad: Keep running in a fight is punished by the enemys with rifles shooting at you. As you will most likely have lost your "focus" after the first attack, you are constantly hit and loose your stamina bar. Even if the game wants you to hit and run, you end up needing to constantly fight a single enemy until he is down, so at least the riflers are not shooting at you (they dont shoot their own and stop while you fight them). Even if you managed to get rid of riflers first and focus than on the others, cool wall runs + attacks arent really possible all the time. The enemys are slow to follow you, so your nice plan of running to some wall and turning 180° to kick them is useless because they are too far away. Than there are these annoying guys that have a throw-back weapon. 2 of them, and they spam you with it. Trying to seperate them, or to kick them into each other, is always frustrating. So you constantly try to dodge (A/D + right click) and attack again, but at some point one of them will use the bounce-back weapon on you. NARF. and than there are the Sentinels, the "runner-enemys". Heck. Fighting a group of like 4-5 with one sentinel is pretty hard. You need to use the disrupt weapon and focus on the sentinel, but you will get hit and loose stamina bars anyways. Cool finishing moves dont worth anything, if its more or less constantly the same rotation: Disrupt, A&D&S Dodge, Counterattack - all without any great running between. Stairs are your friends: At least here you can have some nice jump kicks when waiting for the lame ass enemys to follow you up some stair flights.

Conclusion: I think its really sad - I played ME1 in 2008 and loved it.
The game could be sooooo good, but it is just frustrating. If you never played ME1, rather play that - it has less features, true, but its more fun and refined parkour wise without all this bloated openworld/skilltree/collectable stuff. ME2 had the potential to be the better game, exp. due to the open world and larger map, but at the end its just frustrating for me that you die every 15seconds to 2 minutes running again by falling off some minor geometry, or from running down a minor step of 1m and not rolling (wtf).

Much respect for the speedrunners: They must grind every single mission so hard to have a good flow + the extra difficulty due to their "uber speed". Its more fun to watch someone on youtube than trying to get this done yourself. Have fun wasting 100 hours of training if you wanna be a really good runner that flies threw the map.