Mass Effect 2 PS3 Will Use Mass Effect 3's Engine

I will buy mass effect 1 and 2 on pc if they are on sale next week on steam. Played them both on 360, but all my gamesaves corrupt, so I would like to play it on pc all over again. 

i could just buy mass effect 1 and mass effect 2 on 360 then buy mass effect 2 on the ps3  
  then at least id be able to judge  
 
the 360 ones are cheap as fuck now after all and i do need some more games for it 
halo is just not any fun for me 

" EA = bunch of dicks!   Is it me or are they monopolizing the entire fucking videogame market?  Shooter?  Pay EA. Sports? Pay EA.  Scifi RPG? Pay EA.  Fantasy RPG? Pay EA.  I hope EA doesn't buy out Bethesda.  Seems like the whole fucking market is flattening to just a couple of extremely large corporations. Like Starbucks & Wal-mart.  I fucking hate EA. "

Is Lind upset that EA are putting a shit tonne of great games out there?
 
Oddball.

Reading up on Mass Effect 3 is kind of making me want to have another play-through. 

It's not going to look radically better.

" @xXwindoverXx said:

" @PhatSeeJay said:

" Here's to hoping we'll see a MASS EFFECT TRILOGY BOX completely in the Mass Effect 3 engine then!  Well.. ok that will probably never happen but one could at least dream of a Mass Effect marathon with all three games being enhanced and optimized with the ME3 engine! Oh God I would definitely play that trilogy till I'd either pass out, my console bricks or.. well I reach the end of Mass Effect 3. "

I would need some towelettes...  "

That would be such an amazing trilogy and I'd buy it day one. Alas, it would only be on the 360 and PC because of ME1 but still. "

I might just go for this. I've played the 360 and PC versions, might as well go in for one more.

I just wonder how they'll handle the first game impacts. Will they leave it as is and just have "bad" as default, or will they implement some sort of player choice?

Why are they making it impossible for me to resist buying this game a second time?

THATSFREAKINGAAAAWESOME wow. dude. woooooow. cool.

" I just wonder how they'll handle the first game impacts. Will they leave it as is and just have "bad" as default, or will they implement some sort of player choice? "

I have beaten Mass Effect 2 twice by now, and own all the DLC. On the 360. And have an S rank. So even if I break down and buy a PS3 soon, I won't be bothering with this.
 
Still, I'd be interested in seeing the breakdown of the differences. ME to ME2 was a more dramatic leap than many may think. (See an analysis here.)

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" EA = bunch of dicks!   Is it me or are they monopolizing the entire fucking videogame market?  Shooter?  Pay EA. Sports? Pay EA.  Scifi RPG? Pay EA.  Fantasy RPG? Pay EA.  I hope EA doesn't buy out Bethesda.  Seems like the whole fucking market is flattening to just a couple of extremely large corporations. Like Starbucks & Wal-mart.  I fucking hate EA. "

Shooter - Battlefield Bad Company 2 Sports - NHL and FIFA franchisesSciFi RPG - Mass Effect 1 and 2 Fantasy RPG - Dragon Age Origin Horror Action Games - Dead Space Racing games - Need for Speed Hot Pursuit If EA keeps all this up then I'll be more then happy to pay them for their games. I dunno why the fuck you are bitching about a company that makes some of the best games in the market. And don't fucking kid your self that Bethesda is some awesome Indi dev that makes games for the gamers, if they were then they wouldn't have released any of their games in the state they were in. Bethesda is the forth ot fifth largest video game company in the bussiness. Only EA, Activision and Ubisoft are bigger, maby 2K or THQ but I'm not sure. All the companys are in this to make money. Thats a fucking fact. And your should really learn what monopolizing means because last time I checked there are other shooter, sports games and RPGs  out there.  If you hate EA just because they are big and are able to make alot of games then you should hate all the other companys I mentioned and boycott all their games and then we'll see how many great games your able to buy in a year. "

" Is Lind upset that EA are putting a shit tonne of great games out there?  Oddball. "

" @TwilitEnd656 said:

" I just wonder how they'll handle the first game impacts. Will they leave it as is and just have "bad" as default, or will they implement some sort of player choice? "

There is a interactive comic that you have to watch in the beginning of the game where you can make the most important choices in the first Mass Effect (death of people, saving/killing an entire species, etc.).  Bioware will probably make default choices for the more minor decisions though (e.g. Conrad Verner). "

There is already a comparison on IGN, and it does look noticeably better.

OWWWW SHIT!!! Most effective video game trailer i have seen so far :) Despite the article saying Mass Effect 3 in the title, I completely forgot about it 20 seconds into the video! Props for that. Truly cant wait.

Now I feel like playing 1 & 2 all over again... It's great they're making it look even better for PS, but to be fair, it already looks pretty great on my  22" monitor. I'm not getting a new one any time soon, so improved graphics in 3 don't mean that much to me.
... I do have a friend with a giant tv and PS3 though... hmmmmm...

" @LiquidPrince: All I noticed was the slightly shiny faces, which doesn't actually look more realistic compared to the 360 version they had the side-by-side for. Then again I played the PC version so my experience was basically a lot closer to what was shown of the PS3 version anyways.  Kinda hard to look drastically better when it's the same assets, mostly just performance I assume. "

" @LiquidPrince: All I noticed was the slightly shiny faces, which doesn't actually look more realistic compared to the 360 version they had the side-by-side for. Then again I played the PC version so my experience was basically a lot closer to what was shown of the PS3 version anyways.  Kinda hard to look drastically better when it's the same assets, mostly just performance I assume. "

Better than a good PC running ME2?  I wonder...

" Nice to see Bioware is doing extra work to make this port not just another lazy port. "

This story makes want to play ME2 all over again. 
Damn you Bioware!

Great news. This is #1 on my must-buy list for 2011.

" @ptys said:

" It's a shame that Mass Effect didn't stay 360 exclusive. Hey, I have a PS3, I just feel the identity is suited to Xbox and they really need that cool image, cause Halo is done! You know some people specifically bought an Xbox 360 for these games and feel it's a slightly unfair that Sony is getting all this catch up, but ME2 only sold like 2.5 million copies so can understand where BioWare is coming from. "

Console exclusivity has always been, and will continue to be, complete and utter bullshit.  "

I have played the 360 version, but I have wanted to play it again and never bought any of the DLC, so I may just got with this version (especially with the ME3 engine).

" @ptys said:

" It's a shame that Mass Effect didn't stay 360 exclusive. Hey, I have a PS3, I just feel the identity is suited to Xbox and they really need that cool image, cause Halo is done! You know some people specifically bought an Xbox 360 for these games and feel it's a slightly unfair that Sony is getting all this catch up, but ME2 only sold like 2.5 million copies so can understand where BioWare is coming from. "

Console exclusivity has always been, and will continue to be, complete and utter bullshit.  "

Canadians can make games, eh? Good work bioware!

Makes a nice Change for the PS3 to get a exclusive. Especially when Microsoft suck up all the timed Exclusive DLC and some games!
 
Good win for the PS3!

This is going to be amazing.

Can't wait! Excited to play Mass Effect 2.

I cannot wait to finnaly play this damn game.

That's pretty cool!

More good PS3 news

" @MarkWahlberg said:

" @ptys said:

" It's a shame that Mass Effect didn't stay 360 exclusive. Hey, I have a PS3, I just feel the identity is suited to Xbox and they really need that cool image, cause Halo is done! You know some people specifically bought an Xbox 360 for these games and feel it's a slightly unfair that Sony is getting all this catch up, but ME2 only sold like 2.5 million copies so can understand where BioWare is coming from. "

Console exclusivity has always been, and will continue to be, complete and utter bullshit.  "

It sucks, but then again, exclusivity is a byproduct of Sony console design. First party Sony dev houses like Naughty Dog are now so used to the PS3 development cycle and workflow, and they take advantage of that console's unique set of hardware and rendering pipeline features that, if a game like Uncharted would be multi-platform, it would suffer on all other platforms severely (if they don't hire a completely separate team to develop the other version correctly (you probably can't just bake/port Uncharted to another console the way it is programmed now).  Much like how multiplatform games suffer when ported to PS3 these days (brotherhood/Anvil engine games). "

w00t!

Damit this article made me start up ME2 again. There goes the rest of day.

" Better than a good PC running ME2?  I wonder... "

Woot! Good things to those that wait! (or, in my case, just hoped and prayed it came over to the console they own because they didn't want to get another one for just one franchise =)

" @warxsnake said:

" @MarkWahlberg said:

" @ptys said:

" It's a shame that Mass Effect didn't stay 360 exclusive. Hey, I have a PS3, I just feel the identity is suited to Xbox and they really need that cool image, cause Halo is done! You know some people specifically bought an Xbox 360 for these games and feel it's a slightly unfair that Sony is getting all this catch up, but ME2 only sold like 2.5 million copies so can understand where BioWare is coming from. "

Console exclusivity has always been, and will continue to be, complete and utter bullshit.  "

It sucks, but then again, exclusivity is a byproduct of Sony console design. First party Sony dev houses like Naughty Dog are now so used to the PS3 development cycle and workflow, and they take advantage of that console's unique set of hardware and rendering pipeline features that, if a game like Uncharted would be multi-platform, it would suffer on all other platforms severely (if they don't hire a completely separate team to develop the other version correctly (you probably can't just bake/port Uncharted to another console the way it is programmed now).  Much like how multiplatform games suffer when ported to PS3 these days (brotherhood/Anvil engine games). "

Except that the Anvil Engine and every game that has ever used it (Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed etc...) has been more solid technically on the PS3 versions of the games. "

" @LiquidPrince said:

" @warxsnake said:

" @MarkWahlberg said:

" @ptys said:

" It's a shame that Mass Effect didn't stay 360 exclusive. Hey, I have a PS3, I just feel the identity is suited to Xbox and they really need that cool image, cause Halo is done! You know some people specifically bought an Xbox 360 for these games and feel it's a slightly unfair that Sony is getting all this catch up, but ME2 only sold like 2.5 million copies so can understand where BioWare is coming from. "

Console exclusivity has always been, and will continue to be, complete and utter bullshit.  "

It sucks, but then again, exclusivity is a byproduct of Sony console design. First party Sony dev houses like Naughty Dog are now so used to the PS3 development cycle and workflow, and they take advantage of that console's unique set of hardware and rendering pipeline features that, if a game like Uncharted would be multi-platform, it would suffer on all other platforms severely (if they don't hire a completely separate team to develop the other version correctly (you probably can't just bake/port Uncharted to another console the way it is programmed now).  Much like how multiplatform games suffer when ported to PS3 these days (brotherhood/Anvil engine games). "

Except that the Anvil Engine and every game that has ever used it (Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed etc...) has been more solid technically on the PS3 versions of the games. "

funny how Digital Foundry always claims the exact opposite "

" Woot! Good things to those that wait! "

gamespot played the ps3 version and claimed the game looks IDTENTICAL except for slightyly better textures due to the bluray format. and i thought the game used Unreal Engine 3 to begin with, not their own engine( just looked it up and it IS the Unreal engine, just modified for their purpose). anyways i have this one on 360 and PC so i see no reason to pick it up a 3rd time especially since i can't import my character from a game that didn't exist on PS3. But for anyone who never played it it's a bargain since it's only on 1 disc, the bugs have been ironed out AND you get all that DLC for FREE. you just had to wait an extra year. 

" @warxsnake said:

" @MarkWahlberg said:

" @ptys said:

" It's a shame that Mass Effect didn't stay 360 exclusive. Hey, I have a PS3, I just feel the identity is suited to Xbox and they really need that cool image, cause Halo is done! You know some people specifically bought an Xbox 360 for these games and feel it's a slightly unfair that Sony is getting all this catch up, but ME2 only sold like 2.5 million copies so can understand where BioWare is coming from. "

Console exclusivity has always been, and will continue to be, complete and utter bullshit.  "

It sucks, but then again, exclusivity is a byproduct of Sony console design. First party Sony dev houses like Naughty Dog are now so used to the PS3 development cycle and workflow, and they take advantage of that console's unique set of hardware and rendering pipeline features that, if a game like Uncharted would be multi-platform, it would suffer on all other platforms severely (if they don't hire a completely separate team to develop the other version correctly (you probably can't just bake/port Uncharted to another console the way it is programmed now).  Much like how multiplatform games suffer when ported to PS3 these days (brotherhood/Anvil engine games). "

Except that the Anvil Engine and every game that has ever used it (Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed etc...) has been more solid technically on the PS3 versions of the games. "