If you haven't been able to grab the video on XBLM, or if your slavish devotion to X360F prevents you from checking it out on Joystiq, here is the recently released Mass Effect video. If I am not mistaken, it is rendered using something called "streaming" technology. Simply amazing.
So, if you've got four minutes to spare, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
[Via Joystiq]
Update 1: Replaced not working Gamevideos video with reliable Youtube. Sweet.
Reader Comments (5)
Posted: Jul 13th 2006 10:55AM (Unverified) said
It makes my pants tingle.
Posted: Jul 13th 2006 11:23AM (Unverified) said
OMG this looks sooooo good, Gears Of War then Mass Effect THEN Halo 3!! roll on christmas and next year!!!!
Posted: Jul 13th 2006 1:57PM bbond said
I don't know. What looks sooo good? The cut scenes? I'm not convinced the conversations were actual gameplay footage. How many times have we seen this kind of footage only to find out we were looking at scripted scenes? Maybe I need to see more on this one, but I didn't think the gameplay scenes looked very exciting either.
Posted: Jul 13th 2006 2:42PM (Unverified) said
I'm reasonably sure there were very few cutscenes in that video. The conversations are real-time gameplay (which should be fairly obvious as choices are being made in the middle of the coversations).
As for the gameplay, if you've played KOTOR, you get a better idea of one of the interesting things they're doing. Like KOTOR, you appear to be able to pause in the middle of combat so you can control your team. It looked to me like they froze combat, selected one of the team members, and then moved them through a path that the team member then followed.
Instead of shouting orders at teammates, it appears as if you'll be able to direct their path while the combat is frozen.
As for the rest of my pants-tingling excitement, I'll simply note that they were not only able to navbigate through different star systems, but that all the planets in the star system appeared to have details, and might even be landable.
I've been waiting for a long time for someone to do a reasonable space exploration/combat game, and this looks like it's going to be golden.
As for the gameplay, if you've played KOTOR, you get a better idea of one of the interesting things they're doing. Like KOTOR, you appear to be able to pause in the middle of combat so you can control your team. It looked to me like they froze combat, selected one of the team members, and then moved them through a path that the team member then followed.
Instead of shouting orders at teammates, it appears as if you'll be able to direct their path while the combat is frozen.
As for the rest of my pants-tingling excitement, I'll simply note that they were not only able to navbigate through different star systems, but that all the planets in the star system appeared to have details, and might even be landable.
I've been waiting for a long time for someone to do a reasonable space exploration/combat game, and this looks like it's going to be golden.
Posted: Jul 18th 2006 3:03PM (Unverified) said
If Bioware says the demo was generated with the game engine, then it was. Bioware doesn't BS their customers... they don't have to because their products are ausome and people buy them reguardless. Have you been disappointed by a game they have produced yet? PC or console? I didn't think so.
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