Mass Effect 2 motion comic now on XBLM

by Justin McElroy on May 17th 2011 1:30PM

We're not usually excited to be writing about motion comics when there are actual, you know, games out there, but Mass Effect 2: Genesis is a little more interesting than the usual offering. In this BioWare/Dark Horse collabo, you can relive some of the key decisions from Mass Effect (assuming you haven't played it) and then apply those choices to Mass Effect 2.

Keep in mind that this $4 (320 MSP) download, which served to introduce PS3 players to the universe of Mass Effect, functions as a game add-on. That means you'll need Mass Effect 2 -- but we assume you've already taken care of that part.

[Thanks, Lafu]

Source: Xbox.com

Tags: bioware, ea, mass-effect, Mass-Effect-2, mass-effect-genesis, microsoft, motion-comic, xbox

Reader Comments (54)

Sweet! I already have all the achievements for Mass Effect 1 & 2, but I'll still buy this anyway because I can't get enough! Yeah, I know... I'm a Mass Effect whore. ;-)

@nerdydesi
I heard the iOS games are terrible, but I quite enjoyed the novels. Might be a different story if I didn't borrow them though lol

This is Microsoft's way of making money

@Miami Prodigy

You say that as though Microsoft has no other avenues of making money.

EVERYTHING is Microsoft's way of making money.

@Copybass Ah jeez zombies

Hey dumbass did I say that Microsoft has no other avenues in making money?

This is free for any mass effect 2 owner on the PS3, while us 360 players have to pay $4 for it.... when this is just a recap of mass effect 1.

Again this is Microsoft's way of making money.

@Miami Prodigy

Other people do want it, hence there is demand,
Microsoft is complying to that demand by supplying the product,
This is called economics, this is how everyone makes money,
Microsoft did not invent this strategy.

If you don't want it, than don't buy it.

@Miami Prodigy

But is there value in those $4? Considering the alternative for Xbox 360 owners is to just go buy ME1 (which PS3 owners can't do which is, what? $20? That means my choice is spend $4 on a motion comic (about the same price as a regular newsstand comic) and get to create various iterations of the end of ME1 without having to replay the first time and time again, or go buy/replay ME1. I don't really want to go back through the first again after the control improvements in 2. I haven't bought it (and probably won't) so I don't know the value yet, but it seems kind of silly to poopoo the idea. They gave it to PS3 owners for free so they'd go buy ME2... which is Sony's way of making money.

I HEREBY CAST @Miami Prodigy INTO THE PIT OF TRANSLUCENCY!!!

HAVE AT THEE!

@Miami Prodigy

Microsoft is in business to make money?! Well I never!

When was someone going to inform me about this?

@Qehb

I don't understand why I am being down voted... All I said was this was Microsoft's way of making money.

if your a 360 owner and you haven't played mass effect 1 than buy it... but if you already played it... what's the point?

ALL IM SAYING IS PS3 GOT THIS FOR FREE, WHILE THE 360 IS CHARGING US FOR IT.

@Miami Prodigy

You didn't get downvoted for saying anything about Microsoft making money. You got downvoted for being a douche about it.

@RudyHuxtable

I am a 360 owner, I dont own a PS3, im just saying that this should be free for 360 owners... ah screw it... im going to get down voted anyways.

@Miami Prodigy
But... Microsoft didn't even MAKE this. Bioware (in some collaboration with Dark Horse) did. It just happens to be available on XBLA now. If you'd said this was Bioware's way of making more money, I think you'd have been a little more accurate.

@Miami Prodigy

Hahaha! Don't try to understand or rationalize it, just accept it. It is your destiny!

@Miami Prodigy

You didn't get it for free with the PS3 version, it was included in the $60 you paid, for a year old game.

@Raffi256
Exactly. You could easily get ME2 and all the extra content for it on 360 than you can currently get it for on the PS3, so OP's point is questionable

@Miami Prodigy

Why do you think this should be free? I love free stuff just as much as anyone else, but your assumption that it should be free is starting to sound like you feel entitled to this free thing.

I again ask, why do you think it should be free?

Kinda wish they released this when ME2 launched for the 360. I only went through the first ME once, and I hope I never have to again.

debating picking this up rather than going through Mass Effect 1 again. Decisions, decisions....

@nerdydesi

If you went through ME1 in 6 hours, you might have missed something...

@nerdydesi

Six Hours ???? I spent six hours just looking at Liara's polygons

@Uncle Jesse

yeah no shit....my final time for my first playthrough was around 20 hours, but i did a shitload of the sidequests and spent a lot of time surveying planets.

if you have me1 and played though it you dont need this dlc... this is just so those who didnt get me1

@Teus Or those who want to play ME2 again with a different set of decisions imported from ME1 without actually playing for 20 hours.

I didn't know it was even getting released on the 360 and thought, "that's kind of cool. I can see how the PS3 players played through ME2 without the first one now and play out some different scenarios", but then I kept reading and saw a price tag. Really? This should definitely be free. Weak.

@Uncle Jesse

Agreed, a $4 comic that I can't resell as a collectors item years from now.

@Uncle Jesse

You said it best, Jesse.

Anyone know how long this motion comic is? Worth 4 dollars?

Wow, I expected this to be a Cerberus network freebie... wtf?

@picaso trigger

Yeah, that thought occurred to me as well. The Cerberus Network wasn't as generously supported as many had hoped.

That said, I'm a Mass Effect sucker, so I'll buy this.

Don't get it. I supposedly gives you very little control over what happens in the game. For example, you can't save the colonists on Feros.

That Bioware keeps trying to get more and more new people with each new game is just utterly idiotic. You don't start reading a book a third from the start or a third from the ending. And because they have to accommodate all the new players, the games suffer from it. "Oh, we can't have Wrex as a party member, he's dead for the new players so they wouldn't be able to see it." "Oh, we can't make x matter too much, because some people might not see it." And now they want even more people with ME3? Great idea, make people see the finale but not the parts leading up to it. I despise anyone buying ME3 without having played the other two.

@Mehbah

Ok being that i too lose focus when writing,I sympathize. Please rewrite your thoughts so i can understand wtf you are getting at.

@Mehbah I'm currently enjoying an image of a guy running round slapping copies of mass effect 3 from people's hands just because they haven't played the first two.

@Mehbah

i agree with you, but all the ps3 owners out there essentially started experiencing the plot a third of the way in soooo, apparently it works for some people? then there's all those people who bought dead space 2 without having played the first and think it's awesome.

@Mehbah the points in the comic which allows you to make a decision were the main points that would of effected how mass effect 2 would start, the other details like you listed had no effect how mass effect 2 would start

@Mehbah i've actually gone through both ME1 too many times, and while i do love it, i don't exactly enjoy the idea of going through it again simply for an unimportant ME2 playthrough...and playing it half-butted won't do, if i play it i'll play it right; so, this gives me the option to go through ME1 just for a fun playthrough with unimportant characters...and besides, I'M A MASS EFFECT WHORE...although, i do agree that if you haven't played mass effect 1, then you should before you play the sequels

So let me get this straight:

You pay EA/Bioware/MS $4 to never play Mass Effect 1 again and you trade it into Eb Games for $7 tiv.

Seems like a really good deal to me. Especially the "never playing ME1 again" part.

Why not for the pc as well?

@Iamdude

http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc

Why not indeed? It is up, you just have to check the site. :P

@Iamdude

It is, but as always Joystiq fails at covering PC correctly.

@Draugdraugr
What's wrong with Big Download? Other than, well, everything.

@darkinchworm

How about the fact that it was shut down a few weeks ago, soon after Download Squad? It's non-existent now. Notice how it and DS disappeared from the bottom of the page's blogroll? Joystiq/AOL hasgiven no statements on why they shut them down either, since Big Download and especially Download Squad were quite popular. I liked DS as the software counterpart to Engadget, and BD as the more PC-oriented counterpart to Joystiq.

@RogueJedi86
Oh wow, I didn't notice at all. This is harsh, maybe, but I say good riddance. The writing on Big Download was awful.

YES YES YES YES YES! thank you bioware! it will be nice to play thru ME2 again [15? 16th time?] with a different ME1 backstory

now Obama Shepard can start ME2 without using the default canon, theres no way ME1 was ever getting finished again

thank you bioware

[RIP X3F]

Any chance we'll see this on PC? I'm not looking forward to playing through Mass Effect 1 again to set up my perfect choices for the third game....

@Rather Dashing

I posted less than a minute after you saying it's on PC now too. Check it out! http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc

@Rather Dashing

I don't wanna ruin the surprise, but if there is one thing Ive learned about Joystiq is that generally you should go elsewhere for your PC gaming news. I wonder if they are going to review The Witcher 2 even.

BTW, The Witcher 2... AMAZING~.

It's also available on PC now too!

http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc

Maybe update your post for the benefit of PC ME2ers. Yes we exist.

Wow, Mass Effect 2 for Sega Genesis? Count me in! I would have thought this would have been on 32X or Sega CD though.

I was just contemplating to go through Mass Effect again for a third time the other day. I'm most definitely going to just get this so I can fast forward back into Mass Effect 2 for a third playthrough there instead!

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