GoGamer is selling Mass Effect 2 for $17.90 plus shipping and I am thinking of buying it.
Can some of the GOGers here confirm that there is no DRM other than a simple disk check?
Also, I might as well ask how you liked the game and is it worth it?
Thanks for any insight you can shed on these questions.

All there is is a SecuROM based disc check. Nothing is installed on your PC.
The game is bloody good. I wub it. Not as much as Dragon Age but it's in my top 10 of the last few years. The ending has Crowning Moments of Awsome in spades. You will be bragging about it for months.

The game itself has only a disc check + serial and has no online activation. The "Cerberus Network" DLC access code needs to be attached to your BioWare account before you can install any free or paid DLC (refer to this page), but the DLC is by no means necessary to enjoy this game.
I personally enjoyed Mass Effect 2, and that's a great price for it. It's not exactly a deep RPG (even less so than the first game), but genres aside it's a very impressive experience. If you've played the first game bear in mind that Mass Effect 2 is very different (most of the changes were for the better). If you still have saves from the first game they can be imported into this one to give you some extra money and carry your decisions across.

Thanks for the replies guys. I have never played the first one. Well, a buddy gave me his old 360 and Mass Effect, but the 360 was so derelict that I never got to play it.
So, to be clear, SecuRom is not installed on the computer in any form?
If it is not installed, it seems like it may just be worth a go.

I liked most of ME2. However, while I've seriously considered replaying ME1, I don't think I'll ever replay ME2. One simple reason: planet scanning. Whoever decided to exchange the Mako for this, the worst game mechanic ever devised, needs to be trampled to death by ducks. Was the Mako perfect? Of course not. It could even be hair-pullingly annoying, but mostly because of the ridiculously steep gradients on the height maps used to generate the planetary surfaces. Divide the height map Z axis by 2, and it would have been excellent. The planet scanning, on the other hand, is the most repetitive grindfest ever to disgrace a game. They could have made a marginally more interesting game mechanic if they made you write sales reports for the upper management of a large supermarket chain.

No recent EA games install SecuROM

I strongly recommend that you do not play ME2 without having played ME1 first. You will understand absolutely nothing of the story if you do. You will also have none of the connection to many of the characters that ME2 expects you to have. In short, your experience of the game won't be nearly as good, and most likely extremely confusing.

I has been improved with the 1.02 patch. Try that out.

While I do suggest playing ME first, I have to call that post a load of crap :p
The only thing you will be missing out on is backstory with two of your party members, neither of which had a lot of development in the first game (and said development is explained when you first talk to them).
Nah, the real reason to play ME1 is to further enjoy things, and to make your own Shepard.

I assume you're referring to the line in the changelog that says: Reduced the amount mining time required to acquire all upgrades? To tell you the truth, I'd just as soon never do any planet scanning ever again. At least this shows that they are aware that everybody hates it, but simply reducing the amount needed probably won't be enough for me to want to play the game again.
I love how you always say the nicest things to people. It pretty much guarantees that any opinion you might have will be completely ignored by everybody.

If you are willing to cheat to avoid planet scanning, you can use cheat engine to edit the amount of each material. If planet scanning totally ruins your enjoyment, I don't see any reason not to.

Head to Sol and probe Uranus. Honestly it works. "Really Commander?"

You definitely should get it. Minimal DRM, great story, and a decent 3rd person shooter.

Definitely play the first.
http://meforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=710074&forum=144
"The boxed/retail PC version of Mass Effect 2 will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication. This is the same method as Dragon Age: Origins."
Dragon Age didn't have SecuROM and there is no note on the ME2 box about it as for other games with it (looking at it now).

Well then, since several say to play ME 1 first, does it have any form of DRM on it?
Thanks for all the advice and direction guys it really is greatly appreciated.