Craig Mullins was the lead concept artist on the Halo series, this is his homepage.
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Mass Effect 2: Craig Mullins Artwork
turned into a nice wallpaper:
Craig Mullins was the lead concept artist on the Halo series, this is his homepage.
Craig Mullins was the lead concept artist on the Halo series, this is his homepage.
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Mass Effect 2: Importing Requires Hard Drive & New Game +
Mass Effect fans will soon be able to import character and story save data from the first title into the upcoming sequel. BioWare has outlined the process, with community man Chris Priestly answering questions and concerns of fans on the official forums recently.
Here's what you should know before you make the jump:
Priestly also says starting a New Game + after completing it will be able to reuse the same import data for a second playthrough. Completing Mass Effect 1 with a high level character and transferring it to Mass Effect 2 will receive greater bonuses, such as a monetary boost, or "additional research resources for use at the Normandy's Tech Lab."
Additionally, transferring a save where the player finished as either a Renegade or a Paragon, "part" of your character's alignment will carry over as well.
Here's what you should know before you make the jump:
# Upon starting a new game from the main menu, players can import a character save from Mass Effect 1
# The Player chooses which character to bring in. Bringing in more than one character is possible, this will create a second or additional profile(s), just like in Mass Effect 1.
# For Xbox 360 players need to be signed into your profile that you used to play through Mass Effect 1.
# On PC players will select the .MassEffectSave files to import.
# The profile and save data must be present on the hard drive and not an MU.
# There is a limit of 11 end-of-game saves that can be imported into ME2. This means that if the player was to complete ME1 12 times, regardless of the number of unique playthroughs used, the 12th save will not be available for import, but saves 1 through 11 will be available.
Priestly also says starting a New Game + after completing it will be able to reuse the same import data for a second playthrough. Completing Mass Effect 1 with a high level character and transferring it to Mass Effect 2 will receive greater bonuses, such as a monetary boost, or "additional research resources for use at the Normandy's Tech Lab."
Additionally, transferring a save where the player finished as either a Renegade or a Paragon, "part" of your character's alignment will carry over as well.
Source.
'Mass Effect 3' Will End Story Arc
It's no secret that "Mass Effect 3" will be be the third chapter of a trilogy and that BioWare wants "Mass Effect 2" to be the "Empire Strikes Back" of that trilogy. It now looks like that trilogy may end with a more definitely finale than previously mentioned, however, concluding both the trilogy's story arc and continuity.
"'Mass Effect 3' will be easier because we don’t have to worry about the continuity into the next one," the series' project director Casey Hudson said at a recent press event, according Shacknews.
Hudson may just be talking about the story's characters like Commander Shepard, Joker and Admiral David Anderson, but his comment does invite theories about what BioWare hopes to do with the series after "ME3," if anything at all. Whatever the case may be, his team has be thrilled about the prospects of reaching their third-chapter conclusion.
More info will surely start percolating after "ME2" rolls out on January 26, 2010, at which point we'll all see where "ME3" will be picking up. With Shepard getting left behind, however, you have to wonder if BioWare has thought past the trilogy's last act about subsequent games and spin-off tales.
"'Mass Effect 3' will be easier because we don’t have to worry about the continuity into the next one," the series' project director Casey Hudson said at a recent press event, according Shacknews.
Hudson may just be talking about the story's characters like Commander Shepard, Joker and Admiral David Anderson, but his comment does invite theories about what BioWare hopes to do with the series after "ME3," if anything at all. Whatever the case may be, his team has be thrilled about the prospects of reaching their third-chapter conclusion.
More info will surely start percolating after "ME2" rolls out on January 26, 2010, at which point we'll all see where "ME3" will be picking up. With Shepard getting left behind, however, you have to wonder if BioWare has thought past the trilogy's last act about subsequent games and spin-off tales.
Source.
Mass Effect 2: Achievements Revealed
 | Missing in Action | 5  |
| Save your crew from an overwhelming attack | ||
 | Very Elusive | 10 |
| Return to active duty | ||
 | The Convict | 10 |
| Successfully recruit the biotic Convict | ||
 | The Krogan | 10 |
| Successfully recruit the krogan | ||
 | The Archangel | 10 |
| Successfully recruit Archangel | ||
 | The Professor | 10 |
| Successfully recruit the Professor | ||
 | The Quarian | 10 |
| Successfully recruit the quarian | ||
 | The Justicar | 10 |
| Successfully recruit the Justicar | ||
 | The Assassin | 10 |
| Successfully recruit the Assassin | ||
 | Friend or Foe | 10 |
| Obtain geth technology | ||
 | Colony Defense | 25 |
| Defend a human colony from attack | ||
 | The Prodigal | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Officer | ||
 | Ghost of the Father | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Operative | ||
 | Catharsis | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of the biotic Convict | ||
 | Battlemaster | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of the krogan | ||
 | Fade Away | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of Archangel | ||
 | The Cure | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of the Professor | ||
 | Treason | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of the quarian | ||
 | Doppelganger | 10 |
| Help the Justicar resolve her mission | ||
 | Cat's in the Cradle | 10 |
| Gain the loyalty of the Assassin | ||
 | A House Divided | 10 |
| Hack a geth collective | ||
 | Ghost Ship | 25 |
| Complete the investigation of a derelict alien vessel | ||
 | Suicide Mission | 50 |
| Use the Omega 4 Relay | ||
 | Mission Accomplished | 125 |
| Save humanity throughout the galaxy from certain annihilation | ||
 | Against All Odds | 15 |
| Survive suicide mission | ||
 | Insanity | 75 |
| Complete the game on the "Insanity" difficulty level without changing the setting | ||
 | No One Left Behind | 75 |
| Keep your team alive through the suicide mission | ||
 | Long Service Medal | 75 |
| Complete Mass Effect 2 twice, or complete it once with a character imported from Mass Effect 1 | ||
 | Paramour | 50 |
| Successfully pursue a relationship with a teammate | ||
 | Head Hunter | 10 |
| Perform 30 headshot kills with any weapon on humanoid targets | ||
 | Brawler | 10 |
| Shoot and kill 20 enemies while they're knocked back by a punch | ||
 | Big Game Hunter | 10 |
| Thresher Maw defeated | ||
 | Tactician | 10 |
| Hit 20 different targets with multiple biotic powers to combine the effects | ||
 | Master at Arms | 15 |
| Kill enemies with 5 different heavy weapons during the game | ||
 | Merciless | 10 |
| Make 20 enemies scream as they fall or are set on fire | ||
 | Overload Specialist | 15 |
| Disrupt the shields of 25 enemies | ||
 | Warp Specialist | 15 |
| Warp the barriers of 25 enemies | ||
 | Incineration Specialist | 15 |
| Incinerate the armor of 25 enemies | ||
 | Operative | 15 |
| Complete a mission discovered by scanning an unexplored world | ||
 | Agent | 50 |
| Complete 5 missions discovered by scanning unexplored worlds | ||
 | Prospector | 5 |
| Retrieve mineral resources by scanning and probing a planet in the galaxy map | ||
 | Explorer | 10 |
| Visit 100% of the planets in an unexplored cluster | ||
 | Power Gamer | 10 |
| Reach Level 30 with one character | ||
 | Scholar | 15 |
| Unlock 15 new Mass Effect 2 codex entries | ||
 | Technician | 15 |
| Obtain 10 technology upgrades | ||
 | Weapon Specialist | 15 |
| Fully upgrade a weapon | ||
 | Scientist | 10 |
| Complete any research project in the Normandy's laboratory | ||
 | Fashionista | 5 |
| Personalize your armor in your quarters on the Normandy | ||
 | Power Full | 15 |
| Evolve any power | ||
 | Highly Trained | 15 |
| View all advanced combat training videos at Shepard's private terminal. | ||
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