Mass Effect 2 on Playstation 3 Will Use Mass Effect 3′s Engine

The PS3 port of Mass Effect 2 due to hit store shelves this January may be more than a repackaging of a year-old game. With this game due to reach retailers in January, Xbox 360 faithful may find themselves with a bit of a console envy. This isn’t an issue of visual touch-ups anymore. Jesse Houston, producer of the Playstation 3 port, revealed this in a BioWare podcast:

We’ve actually created the engine for Mass Effect 3 and use that to make Mass Effect 2 PS3. So we took the content and the story and all the other assets that made up Mass Effect 2 and we put them in the Mass Effect 3 engine. And that‘s what we are actually delivering.

Players can expect a taste of what’s to come when Mass Effect 3 finally graces us with its presence, but what are we to do with this game? ME2 on PS3 is already shaping up to be the epitome of GOTY editions with its sleek new look and enormous helping of bonus content. We’ve learned that the comic book mission that takes place between the prologue and main story is essentially a condensed “fill in the blanks” version of the first Mass Effect. Players decide who they romanced, who lived and died, and what the hell happened to the Rachni Queen, thus resolving the issue we’ve been worried about: how are we supposed to have a complete ME experience if we’re never going to see the original game on the Playstation 3? Well, problem solved.

Let’s break it down: Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 will contain a truckload of  DLC ( Lair of the Shadow Broker, Overlord, Aegis pack, etc) the playable comic/condensed ME1 , improved graphics, and the first glimpse of the Mass Effect 3 engine.

If that’s not enough to start a riot in Xbox 360 land, then I don’t know what is.

[Source: Examiner]

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  • Destenoth

    As a 360 owner, this upsets me, but only because I know certain PS3 friends of mine will be unbearable about it. Personally, I’d love to own both consoles, but don’t have the money. Anyway, it’s good to see Bioware yet again demonstrating their awesomeness.

  • citruspop

    And then you have the Bioware Loyalists, like myself, who buy everything that has Bioware’s name on it, and will buy a PS3 just for this game.

    My pockets are going to be empty.

  • boristhespie

    LEt’s not turn this into a 360 vs PS3 thing. I am sure they will probably trickle it down to xbox 360 and as an owner of both consoles I have to say it is nice that someone is actually putting some effort into the PS3 for a change. Yeah they had to wait a year (hence why the publisher NEEDS to do this otherwise who’d buy a year old game) but at least they are getting treated with respect which is lacking from a large number of developers and publishers like Activision or Valve.