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Get your Mass Effect here! [update 1]
If you haven't been able to grab the video on XBLM, or if your slavish devotion to X360F prevents you from checking it out on Joystiq, here is the recently released Mass Effect video. If I am not mistaken, it is rendered using something called "streaming" technology. Simply amazing.So, if you've got four minutes to spare, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.[Via Joystiq]Update 1: Replaced not working Gamevideos video with reliable Youtube. Sweet.
Teaser takes Mass Effect on XBLM
A four minute "Demo Walkthrough" for BioWare's 360 exclusive RPG, Mass Effect ,is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace. The video features Project Manager Casey Hudson talking over gameplay footage from E3. It's impressive stuff, especially if you haven't seen it before. The squad-based gameplay looks a bit like Gears of War and you have to love that incinerator gun (Not too crazy about the voice acting though). BioWare's baby isn't due until Q2 2007. No telling why the marketing guys are calling the vid a "walkthrough" when it's more aptly described as a teaser trailer -- unless it's to torture us with the hint of an early playable Mass experience.Note: Bungie's Halo 3 "making of" featurette, long available on the web, is up as well.[Thanks Matt T]
Video of E3 Mass Effect demo hits XBLM
Microsoft and Bioware have seen fit to treat the unwashed masses who didn't get their hands on Mass Effect at E3 this year to a video, now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace or (convenient for those of you with an allergy to Microsoft's newest console) embedded in this very post.Remember when we said "Bioware really went to town with the facial animations, something which immediately becomes obvious when you start whipping out your gun and shoving it in people's faces in your efforts to get information"? Yup, so do we, and it's apparent in this demo footage. With Bioware's impressive resumé, including Xbox hits Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire, Mass Effect is looking like a sure thing this holiday.
Girl gamers applaud choice
One of the features in the upcoming Mass Effect is the ability to choose your gender. For a game which revolves around one central character (Commander Shepard) and the related storyline, it's an interesting addition, though not entirely novel.However, it may have more appeal than a first glance would imply. We spoke to several female gamers at E3 who insisted that being able to play a female character is a crucial differentiator between games they like and games they love. It doesn't strike a game from the favourites list -- many of these women loved Halo 2 -- but it's a selling point that turns out to be surprisingly important to the female audience.
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]
