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Some of the decisions players made in Mass Effect 1 won’t be resolved until Mass Effect 3, BioWare has said.
The Mass Effect trilogy, which began in 2007 with the release of Mass Effect, has been designed to read players’ game saves and reflect their choices.
Speaking to Microsoft’s Larry Hryb on the Major Nelson podcast, BioWare’s co-founder and CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka said the developer will reward players who import saves throughout the trilogy.
“Some decisions you made in Mass Effect 1 you might not see reflected in Mass Effect 2 and you’re saying: ‘Ah! Ha! Got those guys. They didn’t reflect the choices I made in the second game.’
“But wait till the third game and you might see some surprises. So if you import your saves along the way and you have a continuity of experience going back to the first one, well, we’re going to try and reward the players who do that. It’s going to be very cool.”
Speaking in the same interview, BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk revealed how the studio ensures the trilogy is as personal an experience as possible.
“The system of storing information is flexible enough to see what resonates, for example in 2, and decide what we want to reflect in 3. But the key story beats have been defined along the entire series right from the beginning. What we do in each game is we fill in the blanks between those and pick and choose from among the decisions you’ve made on how we want to do that.”
Mass Effect 2 is due out on the Xbox 360 and PC this Friday. Expect our review tomorrow at 8am.
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Mass Effect
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, RPG, Science Fiction, Space
