Mass Effect 2 PS3 Previews

If you’re one of the PlayStation 3 fans awaiting the release of Mass Effect 2, then you may want to brush up on what’s headed our way with these latest two previews.

Bright Hub:

You might be asking yourself, (But don’t the decisions players make in the first game affect the world of the second game via the save file on the system? And what if I only own a PlayStation 3 and never got the chance to play the first Mass Effect?) Worry not, exclusive PlayStation 3 owners. It seems BioWare thought about that, and they decided to throw in a 15-minute motion comic that details the events of the first game in full.

(A motion comic won’t allow me to craft a world based on my decisions from the first game, though.) If that’s what some of you are thinking, think again. The introductory graphic novel will feature several points where you must make decisions, decisions that will literally craft the world of Mass Effect 2 accordingly once you actually start playing. This is definitely a nifty way to compress an entire game and bring all of the features from the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Mass Effect 2 to the PlayStation 3. Oh, and did I mention that the graphic novel was illustrated by indie comics company Darkhorse? How sweet is that?

PlayStation University:

Every Mass Effect fan out there is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Mass Effect 3, and we’ll take every little taste of the game that we can get. Seeing the reveal trailer, along with a lot of other fantastic announcements, was a huge (and probably the only) reason for gamers to tune into Spike’s dreadful Video Game Awards show two weeks ago.

So it came as a pleasant surprise to find that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2, including the demo up on PSN, runs on Mass Effect 3’²s engine. As a result, the game is looking mighty fine. BioWare have gone on record to say that the game looks (as good, if not better) than it did on Xbox 360, and recent comparisons of the demos on XBLA and PSN are consistent with this claim.