Inside the Game-Changing Features of Mass Effect 2

PopSci talks to the designer behind the game's dynamic AI and sandbox galaxies

By John Scott Lewinski Posted 01.29.2010 at 1:01 pm 10 Comments

Mass Effect 2: courtesy Bioware

Bioware's Mass Effect 2 is amongst the handful of video games that generate the same buzz for hardcore players as a major feature film would for genre fans. As it rolls into stores around the world this week, the sequel to the popular blend of action shooter and role-playing game packs new features expanding the capabilities of the title, the genre and the game industry.

Beginning with a special press roll-out in San Francisco last month and concluding with this week's release, players "peeled the onion" on Mass Effect 2 to discover what this game can do -- and what subsequent games will be able to do in the future.

We collected a set of the top new features and discussed them with Bioware senior producer Adrien Cho.

Of course, there are players who take advantage of all of these advancements. And there will be those who just run their characters around a lot and shoot bunches of bad guys. But, Mass Effect 2 is evolving what games can become holistically -- making folks dream of what could be possible in Mass Effect 3.

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beesnuts

02/01/10 at 1:26 pm

great game better then the first. finished it in 3 days :)

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Entertainment

02/05/10 at 8:49 am

It is always hard to predict what the next generation of video game could possibly be online as the industry sector of online gaming is developing at dramatic speed.

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henrietta monster

02/08/10 at 2:19 pm

this game sucks so much, I had to stop the game and puke my insides out

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Caracalla

02/11/10 at 11:08 am

I thought it was a good game. Worth giving it a try

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coregamer

02/16/10 at 12:00 pm

i wish though that i could play a game and not beat it in 3 days. ive played alot of games since back to the playstation 1 up till now. i can beat most games in 3 days on average, but longest its ever taken me to beat a game is 7 days. id kinda like to play a action packed adventure game like this that takes me 3 or more weeks to beat.

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