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squicken · Jan 20, 2007

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/756/756883p1.html

January 19, 2007 - If you're an Xbox owner and an RPG fan, then you know BioWare. The studio is only responsible for Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire, after all. But now BioWare is moving into the next generation of consoles with Mass Effect and the expectations are high. The sci-fi themed RPG is one of Microsoft's major players for 2007, with an army of fans drooling over the few movies, screens, and bits of information that have been released.

BioWare's Casey Hudson, Project Director for Mass Effect, was kind enough to take a break from working to shed some light on what we can expect out of the title when it arrives on store shelves later this year. Read on to learn about the inspiration for the game, details on how BioWare has moved videogame morality beyond simple good and evil, info on character creation and combat, and much more.

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Tchu-Espresso · Jan 20, 2007

Why does everyone glow?

SnakeXs · Jan 20, 2007

Oh my sweet Jesus. *drool*

Thanks.

MutFox · Jan 20, 2007

Looks really bland...
Like each character is lifeless.

pswii60 · Jan 20, 2007

wow

loving the environments

llTll · Jan 20, 2007

The Black Brad Pitt said:
Why does everyone glow?

yeah like wtf

Vyse The Legend · Jan 20, 2007

EB has the release date for this set at May 22nd. What are the odds that they will actually make that date?

pswii60 · Jan 20, 2007

I genuinely think this looks great. The environments look like they're going to have so much atmosphere in them, the 'glow' is just light reflecting off their metal armour.

SnakeXs · Jan 20, 2007

Vyse The Legend said:
EB has the release date for this set at May 22nd. What are the odds that they will actually make that date?

Splooge to none.

/hope

Just read all that. Very, very few games get me hyped. This is one of them. Sweet Jesus.

How the **** are they getting all this content out, though? My God. It all seams so vast, so epic, so... massive.

I need to tone my hype down a wee bit.

I will say that I am planning my trip to Europe this year around this game, as much as I can. It's that huge.

And, thanks for asking about a release date, IGN.

dirtmonkey37 · Jan 20, 2007

llTll said:
yeah like wtf

Next gen games look nice, not real. duh.

:lol

Heavenly SWORD + THPS HDR FTW!

nelsonroyale · Jan 20, 2007

I like the look of the ingame stuff...the art is very bland to me...rather 70s

peace

pswii60 · Jan 20, 2007

SnakeXs said:
Splooge to none.

/hope

Just read all that. Very, very few games get me hyped. This is one of them. Sweet Jesus.

How the **** are they getting all this content out, though? My God. It all seams so vast, so epic, so... massive.

I need to tone my hype down a wee bit.

I will say that I am planning my trip to Europe this year around this game, as much as I can. It's that huge.

And, thanks for asking about a release date, IGN.

It just comes across as one of those games that you can really sit down, relax and get your teeth stuck in to. A real epic with atmosphere and story. I absolutely loved KOTOR, but Jade Empire not so much. However, everything I have seen of this so far has just got me so excited. I really can't wait for this to come out, but only a month then until Bioshock too!

PolyGone · Jan 20, 2007

best looking next gen title confirmed. never in my wildest dreams did I think games would ever look this good.

Final Fantasy 13 can kiss Mass Effects ass. Look at those screens! And we know they're not doctored, which is the best part!

Dammit Microsoft, stop making me want to buy your console!

Borys · Jan 20, 2007

Anachronox 2 on that engine would be DA BOMB.

/ walks away from thread imaginating a glowing, HDR Democratus...

dirtmonkey37 · Jan 20, 2007

nelsonroyale said:
I like the look of the ingame stuff...the art is very bland to me...rather 70s

peace

That's one of the things I like about it. The art style has this intriguing demeanor.

g23 · Jan 20, 2007

MutFox said:
Looks really bland...
Like each character is lifeless.

I don't want the badass space marine to be replaced with

kthx go back to your anime games.

(Artsyle looks awesome, 80's scifi)

Zen · Jan 20, 2007

I'll be buying a 360 for this game...

painey · Jan 20, 2007

Looks dull to me.. generic metal space suits and half-life aliens aside, flat looking ground textures, and horrible trees.. meh. I'll hold judgement until I see in game screens rather than the press-release ones

MasterMFauli · Jan 20, 2007

Zen said:
I'll be buying a 360 for this game...

Dito.
That´s the best upcoming X360-game for a long time to me.
But one great game is enough to justify the purchase of this console^^

temp · Jan 20, 2007

nelsonroyale said:
I like the look of the ingame stuff...the art is very bland to me...rather 70s

peace

You say that like it would be a bad thing.

aeolist · Jan 20, 2007

g23 said:
I don't want the badass space marine to be replaced with

[IM G]http://simplyff.free.fr/FF12/artworks/vaan.jpg[/IMG]

kthx go back to your anime games.

(Artsyle looks awesome, 80's scifi)

There are no alternatives. You either get a generic space marine or Gackt.

AgentOtaku · Jan 20, 2007

man, i'm so fvcking in love with the art direction

PjotrStroganov · Jan 20, 2007

The art style really is awesome. It really delves in to the old sci-fi style.

But considering previous projects and gameplay footage, I really hope no serious framedrops will occur. It seems this games is going to push the boundaries of what can currently be done on the hardware.

squicken · Jan 20, 2007

temp said:
You say that like it would be a bad thing.

Ditto. I was always fond of the clean lines present in modern/post-modern design. Some of the art has a bit of an Advent Rising feel imo.

nelsonroyale · Jan 20, 2007

temp said:
You say that like it would be a bad thing.

yes it is a bad thing....for some reason I cant put my foot on it but it just looks rather poor to me...sub par...ill defined, blurry washed out colours, sparse detail, clashing colours, etc

peace

MutFox · Jan 20, 2007

g23 said:
kthx go back to your anime games.

Uhh yeah, never played that game and don't care...
But yeah, the characters faces look retarded.
The environments though, pretty sweet.

Way to generalize though... LOL

Topfuel · Jan 20, 2007

painey said:
Looks dull to me.. generic metal space suits and half-life aliens aside, flat looking ground textures, and horrible trees.. meh. I'll hold judgement until I see in game screens rather than the press-release ones

Ok?

The art looks good. One of the few games with art thats look solid all through, from architecture to people.

Got kind of a French sci-fi influence.

Tongue · Jan 20, 2007

I like the look of these screens so far.

I have one question though. Why the **** is everyone glowing so hard? It seems overly glowy for some reason.

Other than that I dig the art style so far.

element · Jan 20, 2007

i love the character concept art for this game. it is awesome!

cank stoochie · Jan 20, 2007

ummmmm

Jewbacca · Jan 20, 2007

I would so have sex with an alien... a female alien. I felt like was the thread I could express that in.

sprsk · Jan 20, 2007

g23 said:
I don't want the badass space marine to be replaced with

kthx go back to your anime games.

(Artsyle looks awesome, 80's scifi)

Uh. Let's not do this.

Anyway, my one problem and it even shows in the art, is the weird issues with posture and how everyone seems to have a big rod shoved in them. Very stiff looking.

PjotrStroganov · Jan 20, 2007

sp0rsk said:
Uh. Let's not do this.

Anyway, my one problem and it even shows in the art, is the weird issues with posture and how everyone seems to have a big rod shoved in them. Very stiff looking.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5152/me64zu.jpg

I'm now thinking of a rod being shoved into her.

Orodreth · Jan 20, 2007

sp0rsk said:
Anyway, my one problem and it even shows in the art, is the weird issues with posture and how everyone seems to have a big rod shoved in them. Very stiff looking.

I don´t know, the videos showed good animations and attitude ( the bartender confrontation and shepard vs alien companion discussion ).

And i love the art, the scenery, armor, characters design. They look fantastic.

Syb · Jan 20, 2007

I watched a video just last week from X06 (old... i know) and while for the most part it was astounding, it showed some god awful boring action scenes. Also the lip-sync animations look really odd on the male lead, there is just something with his lips that is odd.

Ghost · Jan 20, 2007

sp0rsk said:
Anyway, my one problem and it even shows in the art, is the weird issues with posture and how everyone seems to have a big rod shoved in them. Very stiff looking.

what? Who are you referring to exactly because every character i can see has perfectly normal posture, and you can see that different characters have different body language...Bioware has been guilty of shoving rods up asses before (KOTOR & Jade empire suffer), this is leagues ahead of those.

MutFox · Jan 20, 2007

Syb said:
I watched a video just last week from X06 (old... i know) and while for the most part it was astounding, it showed some god awful boring action scenes. Also the lip-sync animations look really odd on the male lead, there is just something with his lips that is odd.

I haven't seen the video, but from one of the pictures,
it looks like the facial rigging for lip animation is not really using very good shape animation for the cheeks, and that's what makes it look awkward.
Though I'd have to see it in motion.

MegaTen · Jan 20, 2007

The art looks great. Hopefully in the final build, Bioware doesnt go overboard with the HDR lighting.

Brashnir · Jan 20, 2007

Jewbacca said:
I would so have sex with an alien... a female alien. I felt like was the thread I could express that in.

that way people would see you and be all like, "Homeboy f**ked a Martian, yo."

Jewbacca · Jan 20, 2007

Brashnir said:
that way people would see you and be all like, "Homeboy f**ked a Martian, yo."

Spider_Jerusalem · Jan 20, 2007

Wow, this game is awesome. Great character design, great environments, great gfx. Now let's hope for great story and gameplay, and it will be aboslutely killer.

f@luS · Jan 20, 2007

Spider_Jerusalem said:
Wow, this game is awesome. Great character design, great environments, great gfx. Now let's hope for great story and gameplay, and it will be aboslutely killer.

framerate
framerate
framerate

Spider_Jerusalem · Jan 20, 2007

f@luS said:
framerate
framerate
framerate

GOW
GOW
GOW

llTll · Jan 20, 2007

dirtmonkey37 said:
Next gen games look nice, not real. duh. :lol

Heavenly SWORD + THPS HDR FTW!

yeah i know but thats too much lighting its the same lighting on ur face if u were in night club and the light was on ur face. :lol

reduce it a lil, it would look better i think

cbrotherson · Jan 20, 2007

The Black Brad Pitt said:
Why does everyone glow?

http://letyoursoulglo.ytmnd.com/

"Just let it shiiiiine thrrrrrouuuuugh!"

devilscallmedad · Jan 20, 2007

I am amazed every time i see Mass Effect

Remedy · Jan 20, 2007

looking good, would love bioware to do another baldurs gate.

MegaTen · Jan 20, 2007

Spider_Jerusalem said:
GOW
GOW
GOW

To be fair, Epic designed Unreal Engine 3, did they not? I'm sure it would be a hell of a lot easier for the creator of the graphics engine to get a smooth framerate as compared to other developers with little to no experience working with it.

Gaia Theory · Jan 20, 2007

my brother was permabanned for jizzing over screens of mass effect? He wasn't trolling, he actually plans on buying one because of this game. Just wondering if thats standard response for this sort of thing, or maybe a mod was being a little heavy handed? :/

Dr. Kitty Muffins · Jan 20, 2007

I won't get mad if this game slips to the fall. I understand what they are trying to here is truly massive. The sheer amount of locations you can visit is astounding !

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