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A preview of Bioware's Mass Effect


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]