BioWare released Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 with the motion comic Mass Effect: Genesis for the benefit of PS3 gamers who did not have access to the first game. BioWare doesn’t think that’s good enough, however, and will alter some character interactions based upon whether or not Mass Effect 3 players played the second game along with including a narrative of the game so far.
“In all honesty, we didn’t do a really good job of new player orientation,” said Nick Clifford, Product Marketing for Mass Effect 3. “If you didn’t play the first game then 2 was pretty jarring for the first half hour.”
“If I’m a new player and some guy walks up to me and is like ‘Ohhhh Shepard! Remember that one time ‘ I would be like ‘No. I don’t remember that one time’,” he added. “So we wanted to make sure that there aren’t those moments that the player is like, ‘Who is this What’s going on What are they talking about ‘”
Source: ps3.ign.com
