14 DAY TRIAL // BioWare has always focused a lot on the story side of its games, with previous title series like Neverwinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic, but it has lately begun to take things to another level. It started out small, with the dynamics, character interactions and in-game cinematic storytelling in Mass Effect, but it really kicked them up a notch in Dragon Age: Origins. The characters were very well defined and detailed, and the implementation of dramatic consequences into the game's universe made things very believable and genuine.
And with Mass Effect 2 less than 24 hours away before it gets launched, BioWare has revealed as much as it can about its game and it has even promised that it will be the pinnacle of BioWare experience. And with such heavy elements of storytelling and cinematic presentation, there's no surprise that a Mass Effect movie has become a rather popular concept. But while game-based movies have started to become a bit of a trend in the last couple of years, almost all of them have proven that this is a very bad idea.
BioWare is aware of this, and the risks involved in making a movie out of its beloved game, so it has no intention of doing this halfheartedly. Casey Hudson, the project director for Mass Effect 2, had a chat with MTV and he said that, "Obviously we have a tremendous amount of interest from people in Hollywood to make a major motion picture about Mass Effect. The most important thing for us is, we don't just want to see a movie get made. We want to see a great movie get made, if it's going to get done at all."
While the powerful story behind the Mass Effect universe is more than elaborate and good enough to support a movie, many other games were able to provide this as well, and their tie-in movie proved to be a disaster. The bright side of the Mass Effect movie is that it won't be a confirmed project until a rough form and a quality evaluation are made, decreasing the chances that this will be a money scheme. "We're just looking at our options there, but waiting to make sure we have something really right before we do it," Hudson added.