Mass Effect 2 cinematic trailer makes us want to skip Christmas

There are no words. This trailer for Mass Effect 2 — which just happens to be the expanded edition of the trailer teased during IGN's pre-VGA show — is just completely radical. This particular video is more story-driven than the previous pieces of marketing for the game, giving a bit of backstory into the team Shepard has assembled, then showing that team going to war against a gigantic, sinister spacecraft.

We like to think of ourselves as fans of the holiday season, but we'd be more than happy to skip the next couple of weeks, just so we could be that much closer to Mass Effect 2's January 26 release date.