UGO has a preview of Canadian developer Bioware's upcoming Mass Effect, a 360-exclusive and part one of a planned trilogy of games. Mass Effect is an RPG combining the light/dark choice-driven gameplay of Knights of the Old Republic and the real-time battles of Jade Empire, all wrapped up in an inhouse sci-fi story. Most interesting is their plans for Xbox Live: Bioware is planning episodic updates to the titles.
As the only oxygen-breathing earthling that wasn't thoroughly impressed with the unforgivably buggy KOTOR, I can't say this title is at the top of my "second wave" wishlist. Maybe the real-time battles--and the elimination of loading screen after loading screen after loading screen--will pique my interest closer to launch. Just whispering episodic gets me excited!
[Via Joystiq]
1. I was really excited when you said, "Most interesting is their plans for Xbox Live:" but then it was just downloadable content. Bioware better not hold something back that they could have put on the disk because they know they can get another $5 bucks for it later as downloadable content. But I trust (and love) Bioware, and don�t think that they will.
Posted at 1:44PM on Mar 8th 2006 by C FALC0N 0 stars