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When you drop the best part of £50 on a new game you want to get your money’s worth. This is something an RPG is traditionally good for, offering plenty of gameplay hours for your pound.
It comes as a slight disappointment then that BioWare’s upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Mass Effect will only feature a main campaign lasting between 20 and 30 hours. This is according to Microsoft who clarified the game’s length to Team Xbox after BioWare’s CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka had said the main campaign would last around 40 hours.
“There are so many interesting choices, no player will likely see everything in the game in one pass through the core game. One play through, just one permutation of the critical path, would be about 20-30 hours and the extra stuff you could do, including exploration of uncharted worlds and post-release content, would add another 20 or more hours depending on what you do and in what order,” said Microsoft.
Earlier BioWare joint CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka told Team Xbox that the game would last “about 40 hours or so for the main story” and “probably another 20 or 30 hours or so of stuff, or more, depending on how much you do and what order you do it in and all of that.“
With plenty of side-quests to undertake, the game, even based on the conservative estimate from Microsoft, looks to have a good 50 hours of gameplay and that’s not too shabby at all.
Mass Effect is currently pencilled in for release later this year.
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Mass Effect
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, RPG, Science Fiction, Space
