'We wanted to continue to explore the original comic book, Redemption, and find a snippet in there. 'Dark Horse and the Bioware team are always looking for new ways to explore the Mass Effect universe, and an opportunity came up to do a smaller, 8-page story on their MySpace page,' said writer Mac Walters. The best part about said story? IGN has it, in its entirety, for you - today. Dark Horse has teamed with Mass Effect game writer Mac Walters to craft another entry in the ME universe, this time in the form of an eight-page story. Starting with the release of the second part of Bioware's epic galactic trilogy and moving to expanded stories courtesy of Dark Horse comics, fans of Commander Shepard have had no shortage of material.īut what comes next? With the game out and the comic book, Mass Effect: Redemption, in stores and collected, would fans of Bioware's galactic epic be left sitting in the cold? Not quite. So it gets added to the main story and sometimes the main story gets adjusted because we did something really cool in that 'episode.' So long-from storytelling is a great place for game franchises.Mass Effect fans have had a very, very good year. It gets written at the time that we get to it.

'When we build out a 'Mass Effect' game, we have a backbone, or an overall story that we want to tell, but each level or mission is like its own TV episode,' Walters said. 'Mass Effect' is a series of role-playing, open-world games, giving the player the ability to customize their character, explore different planets, and step away from the main story to complete 'side missions.' There's a natural way it fits well with episodic content.'

Walters sees this shift to TV as beneficial for game adaptations: 'If you're going to tell a story that's as fleshed out as 'Mass Effect,' TV is the way to do it. Game sales hit a record $56.9 billion in 2020, according to a report by the research firm NPD.Īs streaming has surged, so have series adaptations (as opposed to movie ones). Streaming services, and video games seeing record sales, Hollywood is mining the games industry. But with media companies battling for IP to boost subscription Video-game adaptations have often flopped in Hollywood.

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