Mass Effect is coming to the PC!

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We'll get an improved version of the Xbox 360 game.
- Optimized controls designed specifically for the PC.
- High resolution visuals – Mass Effect for the PC features highly detailed textures, characters and environments.
- Fully customizable controls – PC gamers can re-map the control scheme any way they like.
- Run & Gun Control – Players can assign biotic powers or skills to ‘hot keys’ allowing them to play Mass Effect with a heavier focus on action.
- New decryption mini-game.
- New inventory screen GUI and functionality – The enhanced inventory system makes it easier for players to equip and modify their weapons and armor.

+ most probably the downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version.





This is great news!

I wonder if the required specs will be crazier than those needed for Assasin's Creed

The game uses the Unreal 3 Engine and looks about the same as Unreal Tournament 3, so the performance probably won't be much different than in UT3.

yeah should be about the same... i haven't played it yet for 360, might just pick it up for PC

Awesome news, i already finished it in the 360 but i wouldn't mind giving it another go on the PC

This is great news, i already completed it on 360 but would love to run it on my rig and experience no slow down and shorter loading times

Good, atleast we can run it at a playable FPS - The Console version is a joke.

Well a lot of people would put this in there top 10 games of 07 list, so I might pick this up to see what all the fuss is about.

I only ever saw framerate problems on the ship docking scenes. Otherwise the game was smooth as silk.

I played it and sold it to Gamestop. Not really my kinda game. But, at least I did finish it....so it's definately a good game.

I can't recall any slowdown what so ever. Still haven't finished the game, yet though. About 20 hours in and taking my sweet time.

They released the first PC screenshots of the game today.

Here are two of them.






Looking sharper than ever.

There is no point in getting an Xbox 360 if you have an up to date PC. If there is a game you really want to play, just wait, it will come out on the PC and it will be better. I actually considered picking up a 360 for this game, but I thought better of it, because I assumed it would come to the PC.

There are tons of reasons to get a xbox 360. I am a huge pc gamer, but there is so much the xbox delivers.

Very true, but I have given up on that years ago because the cost of keeping my PC up to date just got too much. PCs may get the superior visuals (and at times superior gameplay) but it comes at a cost, consoles are easier on the pocket and arn't really that bad, which is why I focus mainly on console gaming these days (I still game on PC, just not as much anymore)

Conversely, there's no point in keeping an up to date PC if you have an Xbox 360. Once I finally got a 360 my PC no longer mattered half as much. But I am still a PC gamer, so its above average.