Survey reveals Mass Effect: Jacob's Story for iPhone

by Andrew Yoon on Apr 28th 2009 7:05PM

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Mass Effect certainly is moving to multiple platforms -- just not the one you might have been expecting. A Joystiq reader recently took a survey about an upcoming Mass Effect app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, and according to the survey, this portable Mass Effect will feature Jacob Taylor, "a biotic-powered super-soldier who stumbles across a plot to terrorize civilization's greatest beacon of hope."

The mobile game will feature top-down shooter combat and a stylized, cartoonish look. The survey notes that Jacob's Story will function as a predecessor to the upcoming Mass Effect 2, revealing some of the backstory of characters featured in the console game. The handheld adventure would be about two hours long and cost $2.99.

Depending on the success of this first mobile adventure, EA and BioWare would look into expanding the Mass Effect game into an entire series. The survey also mentions the possibility of mobile games based on the Dragon Age universe.

We're certainly intrigued by this expansion of the Mass Effect universe, but we can't help but wonder why EA and BioWare would limit it to just the iPhone audience. We're pretty certain DS and PSP owners wouldn't mind a portable Mass Effect experience either. We've contacted EA and BioWare for more details, and will update the post if/when they respond to our inquiries.

Mass Effect Galaxy (iPhone)

[Thanks, Matt P.!]

Tags: Apple, bioware, ea, Electronic-Arts, iphone, iPod, ipod-touch, mass-effect, Microsoft, survey, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (51)

This trilogy was supposed to be an Exclusive to the Xbox... and while I can understand it making a port to the PC now I hear that people are having ME2 go to PS3 and possibly the "Wii"? This isn't right at all, and is in fact the reason some of the better game series are becoming so warped and rotten... I blame EA since they acquired Bioware, and I always figured it would destroy the company, just like every other series and company they bought.

ME2 and 3 and other versions should go to the Xbox first, then the PC through a port.

I shouldn't have to get a mobile phone and play a game to read about story that isn't located in the books or the game.

This is a waste of time and I fear that a series with such potential is now going to become rotten and warped... sigh.

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