I think that today's gaming audience is more and more sophisticated. [...] While the missions in Mass Effect 2 are very combat-oriented and play like a first-person shooter, that's just to make the gameplay more enjoyable.
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I think your skills as a player do transfer into the skills of your character.
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We've made a few key improvements [over the first Mass Effect]. There is no other game around that has this amount of reality within the digital actors, it's beautiful cinematically, the scenes are set up beautifully, the characters show emotions without speaking.
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We are trying to make the game more accessible to people. [...] because it's a first person shooter, it is a more attractive game, as the word "RPG" can scare people off from playing a game because they think it's going to be boring.
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Your Halo gamer would love this game, because again, it's a more sophisticated gaming audience now.​