14 DAY TRIAL // BioWare has confirmed that the next installment in its Mass Effect series, the third one set for release next year, will feature some quests that take place in the Citadel, which were dropped from last year’s Mass Effect 2.
The Mass Effect series has delighted gamers with dozens of hours of content across the two games released up until now and its developer, BioWare, is now getting ready for the third installment, which is supposed to conclude the adventures of the protagonist, Commander Shepard.
The new game, while finally allowing the studio to add a multiplayer mode into the series, through the Galaxy at War cooperative one, also gives BioWare a chance to include some of the content that was cut from the previous game.
Speaking with OXM UK, Mass Effect 3 lead writer Mac Walters revealed that one specific quest line that was supposed to happen in the Citadel back in Mass Effect 2 will now be featured in the upcoming game.
"There was a Mass Effect 2 plot that was a kind of callback to the first Mass Effect that was going to be on the Citadel, and we cut it. But now it's made a resurrection in Mass Effect 3, so I'm happy, but I can't say what it is. That's the nice thing about trilogies, sometimes you get a second chance."
Walters also looked back on some of the endings he and his team wrote for the last title, admitting that some were a bit complicated and are a pain to work around when developing the third iteration in the series.
“I don't think I'd call it 'trapped'," when asked how he and his team feels about working with dynamic choices made by the player. "They're more hurdles. Sometimes they're hurdles that we've given ourselves, so we kind of smack ourselves in the head and say 'What the hell were we thinking? Why did we do that?'
Mass Effect 3 is currently scheduled to appear on March 6, 2012, for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.