Mass Effect News, Walkthrough, and Screenshots

Is the next Mass Effect book coming out this month?

Amazon.com has Mass Effect: Ascention listed with a release date of July 29 and a price of only $7.99. I’m sure many of you have read the first Mass Effect novel titled Revelation, which came out the summer before the game release.

The second novel, Ascension, will span the events between the end of the first game and the beginning of the second. Many fans have speculated that this pattern would continue throughout the life of the Mass Effect franchise. You better go ahead and pre-order your copy now. These books are awesome.

Enjoy Mass Effect? Discuss this topic, along with anything Mass Effect related, with hundreds of other fans at the unofficial Mass Effect Forums.

Enjoy Mass Effect? Discuss this topic, along with anything Mass Effect related, with hundreds of other fans at the unofficial Mass Effect Forums.

A lot of gamers are also into graphics design. Almost every video game forum you go to, you will also see a graphics section where members can create and share cool sigs or avatars they create. I wanted to post a couple of Mass Effect signature banners I found online. There are tons more, so if you have one or know of any other good ones, please post a comment with a link.

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VIDEOGAME CONSOLES

A video game console is basically an interactive computer or electronic device which transmits the video signal of the display device (a monitor, television etc.) to display the game. The ‘Video game console’ is different from the personal computer as it is solely dedicated to video games while a personal computer is used for various other purposes as well.

Although it was in the 50’s that the first Computer game hit the market, but it was in 1972 that Magnavox came out with the first home Video game console. Other consoles which hit the market were collectively known as the First Generation Games. With the passage from time the companies kept on raising the standards like switching to wireless remote sets, inculcating better game graphics, replacing cartridges by a single ROM chip etc.

All the video games have Video Game Cheats to let the users steer a bit and have some extra fun. These cheats are usually hidden and users find it on their own and some times game companies publish them on their own.

All such features are very common in the most recent and the Seventh Generation Games. Also when it comes to the Seventh Generation Games, the three names that come to your mind are Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. The details of which go as follows:

Playstation 3:
PLAYSTATION 3 entertainment system gives you a brilliant and high definition gaming experience. The Cell Broadband Engine is the digital soul of Playstation 3 which gives you a gaming experience beyond imagination. It has an in-built Blu-ray-Disc which gives you an entirely new generation in terms of High-definition gaming and unparalleled media storage. So whether it is the Blu-ray movies, gaming or even the online services, PLAYSTATION 3 gives you the chance to take a step beyond. This next generation console has a great future and it might over take Playstation 2, like in PS2 you can find PS3 Cheat Codes in Ps3 games which usually help users to over come some hurdles and probably finish the game smoothly.

Playstation 3 successfully launched the Metal Gear Solid 4 (MGS4) on June 12th in Japan. The popularity of the game is spreading like the forest fire all over the country and even to some foreign ones. Another game to be on the lookout for is the NASCAR 09 which is the sport’s latest prodigy. With features like the latest Career mode, the Sprint Driver Challenges and designing your own customized car, it is sure to give a fight to the arcade games for their widespread popularity.

Xbox 360:
Microsoft’s second video game console was developed and produced in collaboration with SiS, IBM and ATI. The latest integrated service of Xbox 360 allows online competition and to download content like arcade games, trailers, movies, TV shows and demos. Being the successor of Xbox, it gives tough competition to Sony’s Playstation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii.

Xbox 360 came up with 13 games in Europe and 14 in America. The game which turned out to be the best for the year 2005 was Call of Duty 2 which sold more than a million copies. A few other games that made quite a business are Dead or Alive 4, Warfighter, Gears of War, Saints Row and Ghost Recon Advanced. Blue Dragon which was launched in the year 2006 turned out to be the best selling game of the region with more than 20,000 units. Like in other consoles users can use Xbox 360 Cheats for their favorite games e.g Halo 3 and Gta 4 on Xbox 360, recently these two games did a great business.

Wii:
The Wii is the fifth generation of Nintendo’s popular videogame console. It is reported to have a wider market than the Xbox and the PS3. What sets is apart from these two huge competitors is the wireless controller which can be used as a pointing device as well motion detector. Nintendo has undertaken a fierce campaign for the promotion of the set.

Anticipated games include Super Mario Cart Wii. This is yet another racing game in which you can also try out racing with all the best players around the world and thus improve your game drastically.

After browsing the Mass Effect Forums, I came across a post that shows you how to get the awesome looking Spectre Status Armor on Shepard. This is a game glitch so follow the directions carefully:

1. Change Wrex into a different armor.

2. Switch to Shepard in the equipment menu.

3. Count how far from the bottom of the list the Krogan Battle Master armor is (say 5th from bottom).

4. Press X to bring up the upgrade menu.

5. Press Y and then quickly A. You will be asked if you want to turn the upgrade into omnigel.

6. Press B. You then get a list of upgrades but you are in fact in the armor menu.

7. Go to the place your Krogan armor was in the list (eg. 4th from bottom) and select the upgrade in that slot.

After step #7, Shepard should now be wearing Krogan Battle Master armor. This won’t change the physique of Shepard, but will give him a human looking version of the armor and it will have all the Battle Master stats.

Every game, no matter how critically acclaimed it is, will have some aspects that are just flat out wrong. Maybe it’s gameplay controls, visuals, or in game music. The folks over at henryke.com wrote up an article of the 10 Biggest Failures of Mass Effect. It’s quite funny and you should really go check it out. Posted below is an excerpt of the article.

8. “And now… im gona sit into this chair, and im gona stay here till our adventure ends!” - Liara

Crew member animations are not changing, Ashley always cleaning weapons, Kaiden always hacking the same panel, Liara never-ever get out from her chair, all the time… (I dont mention Wrex, whos standing near the wall via 20 or so hours…) They are probably bored like hell. Even in Kotor2, the team were walking on the ship, so this is a step backward in ME.

The rest of them are just as funny. The article talks about how the Mass Effect Airlines never has plane crashes or why there is no vegetation on any of the planets.

Once you’ve completed Mass Effect for the 3rd or 4th time, you’re likely to put the game down. In my opinion, all RPGs should allow for unlimited game life, but on consoles that’s tough to do. Since Mass Effect launched, we’ve seen only one downloadable content released.

Someone on a Mass Effect named raptorx was messing with the config files of Mass Effect PC and noticed some clues that might suggest there will be a total of 4 DLC releases. Check it out:

“I was poking around the config files, specifically ../Mass Effect/BioGame/Config/DefaultEngine and found something pretty interesting about a quarter of the way through the file.

Hmmn, tried pasting the interesting section but it won’t let me. Anyways, go into that files and look for the Jan 26, 2007 and Aug 1, 2007 entries.

It would seem to indicate that there were at least four DLC episodes planned when this was written with one being Mars, another being Caleston (from the commercial?), and two others, one of which (DLC_UNC) is probably the Bring Down the Sky DLC.”

Hopefully we’ll find out soon enough.

Well the day has finally come. Mass Effect is no longer a single platform game with today’s launch on the personal computer. PC gamers across North America can grab their copies of the hottest RPG game in the last year. Millions of gamers will build their Shepards and fly across the galaxy in the Normandy. What an exciting time for all the newbs!

VideoGamer.com wrote a nice, long comparison of Mass Effect on PC and Xbox 360. Which version is better and why? Check it out here. Of course, if you’ve been reading this blog for the last few months, then you know all the new features that Mass Effect PC is bringing to the table, including a free download of Bring Down the Sky.

From this point on, there won’t be much new discussion in the Mass Effect world, except for speculation on upcoming downloadable content and the eventual release of Mass Effect 2. We’re determined to keep fans up to date with information, but if we aren’t quick enough to write about it, be sure to check out the forums.

In anticipation for the upcoming Mass Effect PC release, Bioware / EA has released a couple of new high res screenshots of some in-game activity.

You can find more of the screenshots over at GamersHell.

There are only 5 more days until Mass Effect is released for the PC. I know this website started out, and is appropriately named, for the XBOX 360… but that was before we knew the game would be ported to the PC. You will find that most of the information here applies to both versions of the game. I also want to welcome all the new PC fans to this site, and invite them to join the Mass Effect Forums, which can be found via the link at the top of this page.

Over the weekend, Bioware’s Mass Effect for PC officially went gold. Once a game “goes gold” that means the final master CD has been delivered to the manufacturers. Mass Effect will be out for PCs on May 28th, 2008 for North America and Europeans will see a June 6th, 2008 release.

If you’re new to the game, now is the time to head over to the Mass Effect Forums and introduce yourself to all the veterans. It’s a great community with a lot of offer people seeking help in this vast game.

Gamespy recently caught up with Bioware co-founder Ray Muzyka. As you may imagine, he is one of the bright minds behind the Mass Effect project. The interview is way to long for me to post, so if you want to read the entire thing, please visit Gamespy. Otherwise, here are some solid excerpts.

Dr. Muzyka on whether or not additional content would pick up where Mass Effect left off, or if it will be more along the lines of Bring Down the Sky.

Both approaches are really intriguing to us, I think we like both ideas. We’re not releasing details yet, but really, they’re both valid approaches. We could continue the storyline, we could try to build stuff that’s interstitial between different aspects of the trilogy. We’ve always talked about Mass Effect being a trilogy of content. Or, we could do things that are off the beaten path. “Bring Down the Sky” was a little bit of both in that it actually featured an alien race that I think was introduced in the prequel novel. We view Mass Effect as like a body of work. We’re creating a world, we’re creating this IP that the fans can immerse themselves in both in and out of the game, between the installments and the post-release content, the novels, and other spin-offs as well. We take it pretty seriously.