BioWare still has a number of vitally important questions to be answered in regards to Mass Effect 2, the developer's revealed to CVG.
"How do we make what you did in the first game affect what's happening in the second game?... Who is the main character? Who will re-appear in the game?" senior PR manager Matt Atwood said of the follow-up to its critically acclaimed sci-fi RPG during an interview last week.
These are key ideas currently being kicked around at the studio according to Atwood, who says that dramatically Mass Effect 2 will make us all go "wow" virtually right from the word go.
"Mass Effect really is all about dramatics and cinematics and choices and exploration", he added on the sequel, "and I think we'll expand in each of those areas".
BioWare's only speaking generally in regards to Mass Effect 2 at the moment, but Atwood continued, "There is a story arc already written for the whole thing... I do know that the level of impact from a wow factor, a dramatic factor, is going to be really quite compelling in the next game. I think people are going to be thrilled".
As reported last week, BioWare expects Mass Effect 2 to be exclusive to Xbox 360 "for a short period of time" before it releases for PC. But when is the developer actually planning to launch the sequel?
"I will tell you it won't be three and a half years or four years, which is what the first one took to create", Atwood said when asked about release timings.
"Beyond that we haven't disclosed anything. We'd like to see it soon, but as the old saying goes, we will sell no wine before it's time.
"The team's working hard already but they're going to make sure it's just right... hopefully [it will be] sooner than later... I don't know if it's sooner that you expect, or what you expect, so we'll just wait and see and once we're ready to divulge the date, we'll let you know."
By the looks of things,Q4 2009 is going to be as huge as Q4 2007 with games like Bioshock 2 (and from here I assume),Assassins Creed 2,Mass Effect 2,Prey 2,Resident Evil 5 and MAYBE Duke Nukem Forever .Here's to wishful thinking.Please EA,let Bioware do their Mass Effect thing without too much interference,PWEAZE!
EA's promise to the companies it swallows after 'seeing the light': You can do it your own way, if it's done just how we say.
they've been listening to eye of the beholder then ? i'm surprised there's been no mention of a ps3 port. mass effect would benefit from a hard drive being standard,instead of streaming from the disk because the player MAY have a core 360.
Hopefully we'll see this Q4 2009 at the latest. Bioware did state that they want to release the entire trilogy on 360. If that's the case, they better hurry up as more than likely the next gen will have started by 2010/2011 and I'd hate for Mass Effect to end up as one of those titles that gets overlooked because its released at the end of a consoles life span when everyone has moved into the next best thing...
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Nice one.
.Here's to wishful thinking.Please EA,let Bioware do their Mass Effect thing without too much interference,PWEAZE!
