Monday, January 25, 2010

Mass Effect 2 developer diary discusses customization, bonus missions

Mass Effect 2 developer diary discusses customization, bonus missions

We're off to see the Collectors...

Got a Mass Effect 2 developer diary for you today, sirs. This one covers a variety of areas, including imported save games, the Paragon/Renegade system, and armor customization, among other items.

A highlight is the N7 bonus missions: extra content centering around the universe's elite military class. From what we can tell, these look to liven things up in the sequel -- those who played the original know one of the main flaws was the sheer boredom you'd encounter when exploring planets. Not so in ME2, at least not where there's N7 missions to be had.

In our interview with project director Casey Hudson, we learned BioWare has a "much stronger" plan for DLC support post-launch than it did with Mass Effect; we're guessing N7 missions and others like them will make up some of the content, so there's that to look forward to.

Onto it, then.

Deardiary, Shepherd was a total jerk today...

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