Mass Effect 2 Preview

OXM has published a five-page Mass Effect 2 preview that looks to have first appeared in their magazine sometime prior to this year’s E3. There’s still some info to glean, though:

Essentially, they want to make a game where you can’t just reload one key save and see most of the endings. Instead, Mass Effect 2 becomes a different experience depending on which characters you add to your party and what you do with them. To support all these story threads, the writers and audio team are creating 20 percent more dialogue than they did for last time, which is a pretty huge amount.

And now, let’s turn the floor over to Hudson: (The ending, I think, is going to blow people away. The scope of it goes far beyond what happened in Mass Effect 1. The things that are happening, the choices you get to make.it gets really dark. It all starts to diverge, and a lot more of your squad members can die for real, forever. You realize all bets are off; anything can happen. The scale of it just skyrockets.)