Jun 27, 2011

Mass Effect has always been a series highly rated for its storytelling techniques (besides, of course, the gameplay itself). Mass Effect 3 will definitely uphold this tradition. The E3 lines for this title were huge. And I mean huge. Even members of the press had to stand in line to get a ticket, and then come back half an hour later. But it was worth it. In...

Jan 24, 2011

 What makes an RPG an RPG? Is it the stats? Leveling up with experience points? Health items and loot? The expansive genre spans from real-time action RPGs to turn-based strategy RPGs, and many a debate has been held on what should be included in the list. But by oft-ignored definition, an RPG is (quite obviously and literally) a role-playing game. However,...

Dec 14, 2010

Here we have a trailer for the third, and apparently final, Mass Effect game. Hmm, this guy’s got a funny accent. It’s certainly not an American accent – is he a bad guy? He’s sniping from… is that some sort of clock behind him? It’s Big Ben (that’s the name of the bell by the way, not the clock; you learn something new...

Casey Hudson, Executive Producer of BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise, took a short break from the trenches to tell Critical Gamer what his team was most excited about and proud of regarding the company’s highly anticipated end of January release, Mass Effect 2. “Probably the biggest enhancement that we’ve made for Mass Effect 2 is simply the...

It was hard to get hold of Earth’s first elite Spectre agent, Commander Shepard. So hard, in fact, that I had to settle for the man who voices the digital representation of Earth’s greatest hero… from the future. I think. We settle down with Edmonton based actor, Mark Meer, and discuss the process of voice acting with BioWare, and a little bit...