Mass Effect 2 Looking To Take On Shooters, Says BioWare

Mass Effect 2 will be heading to new territories. Not only is it one of the highly expected RPGs, but BioWare project manager Casey Hudson told Kotaku, “We need to put Mass Effect 2 combat against the very best that is out there. And say this is absolutely state of the art shooting.”

Don’t worry gamers. Mass Effect isn’t turning into a shooter anytime soon. What Mass Effect 2 is an evolution of action role-playing. You have the best of both worlds – top notch shooting and the RPG depth that you have come to expect from a BioWare game. Here’s the full transcript:

“When it comes to the shooter quality of the game there are things that a really experienced shooter is looking for. The feel, the precision, things like that, so we made sure those things are there as well.

We do have third-person shooter combat. That was a big thrust, including that. That world continues to evolve with games like (Modern Warfare 2). We need to put Mass Effect 2 combat against the very best that is out there. And say this is absolutely state of the art shooting.

I think in combat moments they will feel it is the same sort of game.

Before if you got a role-playing game that meant one and only only thing: You’re going to be playing a medieval fantasy with lots of rules, that is turn based and includes this whole list of things,” Hudson said. “Our definition of role-playing games is that in addition to the core gameplay you have the ability to explore your world freely, have a non-linear story and the progression of your character.

That allows us to make role-playing games about anything.

The weapon that you are firing is still something you bought in a store and you customized it with resources you added,” Hudson said. “In the combat areas you are fighting your way through areas, you’re shooting, you’re planning your squad, you’re doing all of the same things in this one as Mass Effect one, but each element works a little bit better. You have independent control of your squad, the powers are more interesting and more class based and more powerful.

It’s no less of an RPG.

A lot of what we are interested in in terms of audience is surprising people that they like RPGs,” he said. “That’s our favorite kind of new gamer. It’s not that we would ever want to go away from making a great RPG experience, it’s more about finding ways to show people that even though they didn’t know it, they really like RPGs”