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IGN have just put up an interesting Mass Effect 2 preview showing, amongst other things, a first glimpse at how the game gets around the whole ‘not having the original game’ thing and a comparison between the 360 and PS3 version. Bioware has created a little interactive comic that lets you ‘play’ through the original quickly. It’s a pretty interesting solution…
In addition – Mass Effect 2 for the PS3 has gone gold – check the official Bioware blog for more details.
I can’t watch the video right now, but I assume that this ‘comic’ lets you make all the major decisions from the first 2 games so you can see their effects in the third.
Please, please, please give players on other consoles a way to do this. I understand that in a way it waters it down, that you don’t have to go to so much effort to get these first choices so their consequences don’t seem as significant. But I want to see all the different consequences in the game and I don’t want to play through them all dozens of times.
Just thinking of say 1 major choice of ME1 gave 2 possible ways for ME2 to go. Now if you think of another single major choice in ME2 you already have 4 different playthroughs to do to see each of these possibilities play out in ME3; and I would think that there are more than 1 major choice in each game that will have an effect.
If need be make it so you can’t choose your options until after you’ve finished the game once, this seems fair. I think this was one of the biggest frustrations of ME2 which will only be increased exponentialy by ME3.
No, the interactive comic thing lets you make decisions from the FIRST game only. This is Mass Effect 2 we’re talking about here – you make the decisions in the 2nd game by playing it. Those decisions will then carry over into ME3.
So if you want to see how things pan out if you make different decisions in ME2, you’ll still have to replay it.
Right, I totally misread that. Well I would still like to see this feature in ME3.
I have heard about a PC save game site, but not one for the 360, I will definitely check that out, thanks Simon G!
Hey don’t despair, I had this same frustration with ME2 as I had played ME1 three times (on my third run I reloaded a lot to see different decision outcomes) and saw pretty much every possible outcome and most of the dialogue in the game.
Luckily I found Gibbed’s savegame editor (also known for the Just Cause 2 editor) a few weeks after ME2 launched which is super-easy to use on the 360 and won’t get you banned or anything as it requires no modification. There’s a sanctioned thread about how to use it on the official Bioware forums here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/128/index/2277020/1.
You can do all sorts of awesome stuff with it, including customizing every single decision that’s possible in ME1 for import into ME2 and even modifying your Shepards face mid-playthrough (this was a huge annoyance for me, as faces can look great in the creator but weird in-game). I have little faith that Bioware’s interactive comic will cover any more than the very basic “big” choices, but Gibbed’s editor let’s you tick off everything, perfect for those that have played ME1 multiple times.
I do remember hearing something about Bioware releasing the interactive comic in a while via DLC for Xbox/PC owners of Mass Effect 2.
I could be horribly wrong, though.
What for? The same is still available for both platforms and is not going to disappear anytime soon.
(Late reply)
It’s much easier to play a 15-minute comic that establishes backstory for an ME2 import than a 40-hour game which accomplishes the same thing.
For people who want certain choices to import into ME2/3, and don’t want to play through an entire game (and can’t edit their saves), this interactive comic backstory would be great.
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