Mass Effect 3 ends the Story Arc

[heruamon]

Bioware originally sold this as a trilogy, and it's good to see that they are already working up the plans for the third and final chapter.  I actually hope they can get this out for the 2011 Holiday Season.  I hope we get 2-3 solid DLCs on the scale we saw for Fallout 3, as that will keep the $$$ following, and align for the Game of the Year release.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/61666

BioWare Already Looking Forward to Mass Effect 3

by Garnett Lee Dec 17, 2009 8:30pm CST tags: Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect, BioWare

Mass Effect 2

After the exhausting effort that went into developing Mass Effect 2 it would be reasonable to expect the team was ready for a break. Not BioWare, or at least not Project Director Casey Hudson. Speaking to the press before showing off the game at a recent event in Edmonton Hudson said, "We're looking forward to it [Mass Effect 3] and it should be more fun for us."

The original Mass Effect and the upcoming Mass Effect 2.

This comment came after Hudson went into some detail about the challenges faced during development with perfecting the system for carrying over saves from the first game. Managing all the potential player choices and their outcomes took such a commitment to making it work that he said, "I'd be really surprised if anyone else tried to do it."

"Mass Effect 3," Hudson said, "will be easier because we don't have to worry about continuity into the next one." While no one ever expected the Mass Effect world to go away after the Shepard trilogy, it sounds like they're pretty dead set to wrap the current story arc up in the third game.

Mass Effect 2 hits PC and Xbox 360 on January 26, 2010. Specific platforms and a release date for Mass Effect 3 have yet to be announced, though the franchise's save data carry-over suggests PC and Xbox 360.