At GamesCom last August, ElectronicArts announced that BioWare’s Microsoft-exclusive sci-fi shooting game franchise Mass Effect would soon be a multi-console enterprise. Early next year Mass Effect 2 will be released on Sony’s platform following the game’s release on the Xbox 360 and PC in January 2010 and well signifies Mass Effect 3’s eventual distribution on Sony’s platform.
BioWare offered PS3 gamers a glimpse at what they will be able to expect from Mass Effect 2’s Blu-ray Disc debut. The main advantage of the PS3 edition of the game will include contents released in a downloadable form for PC and Xbox 360. This content includes Project Overlord, Lair of the Shadow Broker, Kasumi: Stolen Memory, and Blood Dragon Armor packs.
PS3 gamers who buy Mass Effect 2 will also gain access to the Cerberus Network, which offers free access to more downloadable content ranging from the Zaeed character missions to the Hammerhead hover tank. Used-game purchasers, on the other hand, will be required to purchase access to the Cerberus Network.
BioWare will also offer a make-good to PS3 gamers for the absence of the original game on Sony’s platform. The studio’s Edmonton division will be collaborating with Dark Horse Comics on an interactive comic that will help fill in the story leading up to the events in Mass Effect 2.
“While I cannot release all the details about this yet, what I can tell you is that we want to create a stunning visual experience that not only tells the core story elements of Mass Effect 1, but also is fully interactive allowing you to be faced with some of the major choices which will have consequences in your Mass Effect universe”, says BioWare producer Jesse Houston of the comic. He also mentioned that it will be included with the Cerberus Network and initially be a PS3-exclusive.
Finally, BioWare validated a number of additional DLC packs are going to be available for the PS3 edition of the game, of both the paid and free variety. Though the studio didn’t reveal much of the specifics of these add-ons, it did offer the names Recon Operations Pack and Aegis Pack.
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