Sun, Jan 16, 2011 | 17:11 GMT
Priestly: Mass Effect 2 “PS3 demo was old build”
According to Bioware’s Chris Priestly, the demo for Mass Effect 2 on PS3 used a two month-old build of the game’s engine - so put away the pitchforks, PS fans.
It was revealed last year that the PS3 version of the game is actually using the new Mass Effect 3 engine, however people were left a little deflated after seeing the demo in action.
It seems though there was no need to panic, as explained by Priestly on the PlayStation Blog: “The demo was, for certification and testing reasons, about a two month older build than the final ‘what you will play when you get it home’ version. I think you’ll see that the game is noticeably better at launch.”
Mass Effect 2 for PS3 releases in North America on January 18, with the UK version following on January 21.
Thanks , Ripten.
9 comments
#1
Stardog
16/01/11, 5:40 pm
What are people expecting? It’s still an Unreal Engine game, so it’s barely going to look different.
The only major thing that was updated in UE3 recently was the bounced lighting (Lightmass), but Bioware already prebaked the shadows for all their levels anyway and just imported them from the 360′s ME2.
#2
Aimless
16/01/11, 5:49 pm
Even if performance is exactly the same as the demo, soft capping the framerate should make it appear a lot smoother and cut down on the tearing.
Personally it’ll just be nice to play the game without Shepard slowly inching to the left all the time; curse you, 360 pad!
#3
Syrok
16/01/11, 5:50 pm
Meh, looked fine as it was anyway.
#4
earlyrock
16/01/11, 6:10 pm
Yeah thought it looked quite dapper too
Looking forward to picking it up.
#5
tenthousandgothsonacid
16/01/11, 6:11 pm
It’s not going to fix the fact that the video bits dropped frames and were jerky. Even the logo at the start glitches ffs
#6
Gekidami
16/01/11, 6:15 pm
^ Thats exactly the type of thing you’d expect from an earlier build…
#7
KL
16/01/11, 7:51 pm
damage control.of course they don’t wanna lose sales.
then again you never know.
#8
IL DUCE
16/01/11, 8:53 pm
PS3 users should just be grateful that they are getting the Mass Effect series at all…
#9
TraceableX
17/01/11, 1:10 am
Sadly, this one leaked into torrent sites.