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Mass Effect 3 will do a much better job than Mass Effect 2 in bringing new players up to speed with what’s happened previously in the series, BioWare has promised.
“In all honesty, we didn’t do a really good job of new player orientation,” Nick Clifford, product marketing for Mass Effect 3, told IGN. “If you didn’t play the first game then 2 was pretty jarring for the first half hour.”
In addition to offering something similar to the ‘story so far’ interactive comic provided for Mass Effect 2’s release on PlayStation 3, BioWare says characters will interact differently with Shepard depending on whether a Mass Effect 2 game save is detected.
“If I’m a new player and some guy walks up to me and is like ‘Ohhhh Shepard! Remember that one time?’ I would be like ‘No. I don’t remember that one time,'” Clifford said. “So we wanted to make sure that there aren’t those moments that the player is like, ‘Who is this? What’s going on? What are they talking about?'”
Mass Effect 3 will be released March 9 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. A multiplayer demo will be released February 14 via early access (activate a Battlefield 3 online pass) or for general release on February 17.
In related news, a fourth Mass Effect novel will be released in the UK on February 2.
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Mass Effect 3
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, RPG, Science Fiction, Space
