The latest batch of Mass Effect 2 DLC will be out early September, this one picking up the Shadow Broker plot thread left dangling during the original campaign.
As announced back in July, Lair of the Shadowbroker teams Shepard with Liara T’Soni as they confront the mysterious information broker. It will include five new achievements, additional research and an intel center.
In addition, if Shepard has a relationship with Liara from the first game, it will be possible to pick up where things left off. Out of all the DLC to this point, it looks like this might be the one that has the greatest impact on the sequel.
The DLC will cost 800 Microsoft Points, with the release date set for September 7.
Bioware’s just announced that the Mass Effect series will FINALLY be coming to PS3 in January, 2011. Up until now of course the highly successful action RPG has been an Xbox 360 exclusive. Big news for PS3 users if you’ve always wanted to get in on one of the best RPGs gaming has to offer.
BioWare’s project director Casey Hudson has recently been discussing the huge interest directors have had with making Mass Effect into a movie.
Obviously we have a tremendous amount of interest from people in Hollywood to make a major motion picture about Mass Effect. The most important thing for us is, we don’t just want to see a movie get made. We want to see a great movie get made, if it’s going to get done at all. We’re just looking at our options there, but waiting to make sure we have something really right before we do it.
Project manager Casey Hudson was careful not to release to much information but he revealed a little about the DLC planned for Mass Effect 2 as well as a further sequel.
We are already at work on Mass Effect 3. Building the first bits of the story, putting that together.
We don’t have anything specifically announced yet, but we basically plan for DLC pretty shortly after the release of the game and then a pretty intense schedule of downloadable content throughout. This is one of the big improvements that we’ve been able to do for Mass Effect 2. Lots of DLC and lots of really high quality DLC that players can look forward to.
BioWare community coordinator Chris Priestly has released details on how to carry over your game saves from Mass Effect 1 into 2.
We know many fans of Mass Effect have been asking how their saved games would transfer between Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2. We have put together details you need to know about transferring your saves between ME1 and ME2.
Save Game Import
*Upon starting a new game from the main menu, players can import a character save from Mass Effect 1
*The Player chooses which character to bring in. Bringing in more than one character is possible, this will create a second or additional profile(s), just like in Mass Effect 1.
*For Xbox 360 players need to be signed into your profile that you used to play through Mass Effect 1.
*On PC players will select the .MassEffectSave files to import.
*The profile and save data must be present on the hard drive and not an MU.
*There is a limit of 11 end-of-game saves that can be imported into ME2. This means that if the player was to complete ME1 12 times, regardless of the number of unique playthroughs used, the 12th save will not be available for import, but saves 1 through 11 will be available.
At this point we have revealed that the save game import system will carryover all your decisions and plot decisions from ME1 into ME2. Did you save the Council? Who survived Virmire? And how did you handle your most ardent fan? We don’t want to list everything out and spoil the surprises we have in store for you, but rest assured you will be pleased when you see just how much carries over into Mass Effect 2.
According to Co-founder of BioWare, Dr. Ray Muzyka Mass Effect 2 will be the best game that their studio has created yet.
I think it’s going to be the best thing yet from BioWare when it comes out. This is the dark second act of the Mass Effect trilogy and I’m really incredibly excited about this. The quality is outstanding, I’m so proud of the team across the board. Listening to the feedback from the fans and the press and internally on the first team, we amped up the intensity of the shooter experience, amped up the depth and richness of the RPG experience.
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EA’s released new Mass Effect 2 plot details after showing off the sequel at its Gamescom press briefing.
The details of which along with a new trailer and a screenshot can be found here. Be warned though it does contain spoilers, so if you dont want anything spoiled refrain from viewing. There is also a new hands on preview from Xbox 360 World which you can find the link to in this thread here. Feel free to let me know what you think in both threads.
BioWare’s unveiled the Mass Effect 2 box art on its Facebook page for both the Xbox 360 and PC version of the game. You can view the shots and add your opinion here.