To talk all things role-playing, we sat down with BioWare bosses Greg Zeschuk (Vice President BioWare and Electronic Arts) and Ray Muzyka (General Manager and CEO BioWare, and VP and GM EA). It's a busy time for the duo, as Mass Effect 2 is expected sometime in 2010.
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According to CMPevents, the sequel to BioWare rather smashing RPG, Mass Effect, will feature at GDC 09. Corey Andruko (Project Manager, BioWare) and (Lead Technical Designer, BioWare) will be conducting “a session examines the BioWare Mass Effect team’s new level-creation process, which is focused on maximizing iteration for quality while minimizing rework and cost,” says the piece.
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The second installment of BioWare's sci-fi action series finally gets more video love today, and this time it's not telling us that the main character is dead. Instead we notice ... well, we'll just let the above video, "Prelude to E3," speak for itself. Just please stop toying with our fragile emotions, already! We'll have hands-on Mass Effect 2 goodness from E3 soon, where we look forward to "killing someone a thousand times."
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According to DFC Intelligence, BioWare's latest spacefaring adventure sold an estimated 1.1 million copies (of the Xbox 360 version) in January -- six times the sales of any other game.
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Bioware's previews of Mass Effect 2 at E3 and at GamesCom have been interesting. Asides from the usual raft of comabat & engine improvements, what they've been most keen to talk about is the end. After 60+ hours over two games, the possibility exists that you'll lose your Commander Shepard, for good. How will Bioware's flirtation with permadeath affect the game?
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In a chat with PC World, lead producer Casey Hudson spoke at length about the hundreds of ways that actions from the first game, not just "big choices," can change things in the action-RPG sequel due on PC and Xbox 360 early next year.
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