Mass Effect preview for Xbox 360

This month we have a huge preview of Mass Effect, the major space RPG that's due out this winter. The game has been the subject of major speculation and now we can answer some of the questions: we've had a look at the game and we have lots of titbits and screenshots to share with you. Mass Effect is set to be one of the biggest releases of the winter: find out more about it in our major Mass Effect preview for Xbox 360!
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Mass Effect preview for Xbox 360
“Approaching Arcturus. Disengaging FTL drive core.”
As opening lines of novels go, that probably isn’t up there with the all-time greats. It is however, the first line in Mass Effect: Revelation by one Drew Karpyshyn, who you may know from such bestsellers as Baldur’s Gate: Throne Of Bhaal, Temple Hill, and Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path Of Destruction. A man who appears to be paid by the colon, Drew has only gone and penned ‘The thrilling prequel to the awardwinning video game from BioWare!”
How do we know this? Because we were given a copy of said tome following the presentation of Mass Effect at E3. Now it’s a long flight back from LA, but it’s not that long, and suffice to say the paperback remained in our hand luggage, not least due to the picture of a three-clawed alien adorning the cover. We are nothing if not professional though, and having rescued it from the laundry bag, we have since doggedly ploughed through the prologue, a gruelling 19 pages.
This much we know: in 2148, mankind finally makes it to Mars. Initially pretty smug at having conquered the red planet, the shocking discovery of a 50,000-year-old bunker full of alien technology rapidly puts things into perspective. We might have sandwich makers, online poker and rollon deodorant, but in comparison to the alien boffins, dubbed Protheans, we are little more then dim-witted windowlickers.

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