Gaming 2 – BioWare Talks Serious BusinessWritten By Roy
BioWare have been having a really good time in the last few weeks. Their newest release, Mass Effect 2, has gained an overall score of 94 from review aggregator Metacritic – the fourth highest in the story of the site that compiles the scores from review sites and publications all over the world. We haven’t had a chance to review Mass Effect 2 yet as it’s a pretty big game, but from the ten or so hours we’ve already sunk into it we can safely confirm its brilliance.
Of course, the game is a commercial success for BioWare, and so recently from its other smash RPG, Dragon Age that will see an expansion coming out in March and a sequel already on the cards. Bioware announced this week their intentions to make the Dragon Age sequel more visually attractive – one of the only weak points of the original game:
“I can confirm that we’re doing a lot of work on the Dragon Age engine, and doing a lot of stuff to pump it – to make it visually super hot.
I think the overall visual style we’re going to continue to evolve in Dragon Age. People are going to see some cool stuff. I can’t really say too much, but I think Dragon Age as a world is interesting. It’s a timeline, and you can go anywhere.”
The company have also stated that their best work is still ahead of them, and talked about their ambitions to make each game better than the last:
“The way we approach it is that each game has to be better than the last one, that’s always been true for the last 20 years we’ve been doing this, that’s just what we do. It’s kind of in our culture now.
If it wasn’t difficult it wouldn’t be worthwhile our best work is still ahead of us. That’s why I’m doing it, because I think our best work is still ahead of us and that’s why our teams are doing it I think."
It’s great to see a company that relies on well written stories and interesting gameplay mechanics doing so well. Here’s to Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2!
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