{"id":9041,"date":"2010-12-17T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ps3-mass-effect-2-powered-by-mass-effect-3-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/9041-ps3-mass-effect-2-powered-by-mass-effect-3-engine","title":{"rendered":"PS3 Mass Effect 2 powered by Mass Effect 3 engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>BioWare&rsquo;s Jesse Houston has dropped a rather unexpected bit of information in the company&rsquo;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bioware.com\/2010\/12\/15\/mass-effect-2-on-playstation-3-podcast-and-gold-announcement\/  \" target=\"_blank\">podcast<\/a> &ndash; apparently the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 is powered by the new Mass Effect 3 engine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the first things you&#8217;re going to see is improved graphics,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We actually created the engine for Mass Effect 3 and used that to make Mass Effect 2 PS3. So we took the content, the story and all of the other assets that made up Mass Effect 2 and we put it into the Mass Effect 3 engine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, both game engines are basically built on Unreal Engine 3, but considering the subtle &ndash; but significant &ndash; visual improvements between the first and second game, PS3 gamers can probably expect something nice to look at. And hopefully less texture pop.<\/p>\n<p>Houston also mentioned something about an &ldquo;improved&rdquo; planet scanning mini-game. Perhaps the biggest improvement would be removing it altogether, but any improvement is, well, sure to be an improvement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS3 gets total graphics hax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}