Mass Effect to drop for the PC in May, EA to publish

by Jason Dobson on Feb 12th 2008 9:15AM

Mass Effect's long-rumored jump to the PC is now a certainty, as publisher Electronic Arts has taken the popular action RPG under its wing with plans to publish the title for the PC in May. The game is the first in a new deal struck between EA and Microsoft, which will see the publisher bringing this and other unspecified games to the PC market.

According to EA, Mass Effect has undergone a slight makeover for its PC debut, with new PC-centric "fully customizable" controls, the ability to assign hot keys for "run and gun control," an enhanced inventory system, and a new decryption minigame. The publisher also boasts of the version's new "highly detailed" visuals, though we're curious to see if the console version's horrendous texture pop-in will be checked at the door before boarding the painfully slow rising elevator leading to Mass Effect's spring release.

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Reader Comments (103)

are you kids STILL talking about Mass Effect?

Didn't you beat that shit months ago? So PC guys get to finally play it, that's cool

Just as I collected $10 PC ports of Xbox games while owning a PS2, I'll start to collect PC ports of 360 games once they hit the bargain bin. While I'd be ecstatic about PC ports of GTAIV(unlikely after Hot Coffee) and MGS4(dependent upon a 360 port), I'm perfectly happy waiting for a $150 PS3 while playing Assassin's Creed, DMC4, Mass Effect, Gears of War and probably Fable 2. Not to mention parallel 360 releases like Bioshock, Call of Duty, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and Tomb Raider. No RRoD, no wind tunnel in my living room, no waiting a year for a $40 price drop, no pay for multiplayer matchups. All in all I've spent $400 on parts since 2004, and made back $150 on selling used parts. Wait a minute, with that money, I could've simply bought a Wii...nah, I'll wait for the 'buzz' to die down and it to hit the magic price of $99.99.

I had to post this to say that Mass Effect has been the hot poker thats been prodding me to get an XBOX360...cuz I REALLY want to play that game. Especially when they first said that they might not make a PC port or it might take over a year.

Then this news comes out...and now there is no reason whatsoever for me to get a 360, I upgraded my computer recently, many times more powerful then the 360 and ps3 put together.

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