{"id":9417,"date":"2011-01-17T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioware-mass-effect-2-ps3-demo-an-older-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/9417-bioware-mass-effect-2-ps3-demo-an-older-build","title":{"rendered":"BioWare: Mass Effect 2 PS3 demo an \u201colder build\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Responding to complaints on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/01\/12\/mass-effect-2-ps3-hits-psn-and-blu-ray-on-january-18th-more-than-a-simple-port\/comment-page-2\/#comment-505948\" target=\"_blank\">BioWare blog<\/a> about the PS3 Mass Effect 2 demo&rsquo;s visual quality, the company&rsquo;s community coordinator Chris Priestly says that, &ldquo;The demo was, for certification and testing reasons, about a 2 month older build than the final &lsquo;what you will play when you get it home&rsquo; version. I think you&rsquo;ll see that the game is noticeably better at launch.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also added a little smiley face to show he was totally deadly serious.<\/p>\n<p>BioWare <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/9041-PS3-Mass-Effect-powered-Mass-Effect-engine.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced<\/a> that the PS3 version of the game is built on Mass Effect 3&rsquo;s engine, which is probably not quite as grand as it sounds &ndash; it&rsquo;s still the Unreal Engine 3, just with a few aesthetic tweaks. It&rsquo;s a rather fine looking game, regardless.<\/p>\n<p>There was also some vague commentary about the game featuring an &ldquo;improved&rdquo; planetary scanning system. Dodged a space-bullet there, PS3 fans.<\/p>\n<p>The game launches at retail and over the PSN on 18 January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release version is apparently much sexier<\/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-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417","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=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}