Mass Effect 2 has been confirmed as multi-platform title, due to arrive in Q4 of EA’s fiscal year – somewhere in the first three months of 2010. CEO John Riccitiello revealed the title in the company’s earnings call to investors. Its existence won’t come as much of a surprise though – the original Mass Effect was being touted as the first of a trilogy before it even launched.
However, PS3 owners may have a reason to perk their ears up. Riccitiello specifically stated that it was coming to “multiple platforms”. This may just mean a simultaneous Xbox 360 and PC release, but if it uses the same Unreal Engine 3 technology as before, there’s no reason why PS3 owners – or even Wii owners – wouldn’t be able to join in the fun.
EA also holds the publishing rights now, instead of Microsoft, adding more weight to the possibility that it could come out on a wider range of platforms. There’s still a big question mark hanging over whether the PS3 will get a port of the original too.
Mass Effect is one of the Xbox 360’s strongest RPG titles, chronicling the adventures of Commander Shepherd, exploring the galaxy on board the SSV Normandy. The game also courted controversy with its very un-risqué sex scene, which could be made slightly less savoury by courting the appropriate female alien and picking a female character at the start. Ultimately , lesbian alien sex sounded a lot more dramatic on paper and when Fox News went to town on it than it was in the actual game.
We wonder what BioWare has in mind to make Mass Effect 2 even more distasteful to the conservative media? The sex thing has been done now, so maybe a monstrous alien race will come in and steal all the jobs from hard working humans instead.
