Mass Effect 2

Supposedly bioware are working on a faster loading system, one that should cut down the amount of awkward time spent within the elevator rides with Wrex. The first mass effect game featured a few things heavily, firstly the most newsworthy feature seemed to be the gaming sex scenes, which grabbed the media quite extensively. Seperate to this lesbian alien sex there was also the formidable elevator rides. These rides in the mass effect elevator met mixed critisism, ultimately it was designed to mask the loading of new levels – which some thought it was a good idea and was a lot better than simply displaying a loading screen. Other recent games such as Portal (on the half life engine) have also used this technique and overall to the non veteran gamer it does mask the loading of new levels nicely, making the whole experience less segmented.

But some critics thought the elevator rides were over the top and a more efficient game loading screen would have done if it had cut down the time spent loading. Some elevator rides did last up to 1 minute, which is quite a long time to be stuck in any elevator, let alone in mass effect. Gamers like shooting things, exploring, running jumping – climbing you know – action stuff – elevator rides are not really action.

Anyway according to an interview with BioWare founders it was one of the major feedback’s recieved from the first mass effect game and they are actively looking to remove/improve these loading scenarios. YAY less time in lifts!