Mass Effect 2 Save May Not Work in Mass Effect 3

Posted by Adam Larck on 02.08.2010

Depends on choices made in the game.



For people wanting no spoilers about Mass Effect 2, all you need to know is that choices in the game can make your Mass Effect 2 save worthless in Mass Effect 3.

For people who don't care about a slight spoiler, choices made in the last mission can result in Commander Shepard dying. If this happens, Casey Hudson, BioWare producer, explained that the dead won't come back to life when the next game releases.

"Dead is dead," Hudson said to Game Informer. "Mass Effect 3, as with the rest of the trilogy, is Shepard's story. If you have a dead Shepard at the end of Mass Effect 2, that saved game won't import into Mass Effect 3. You can play Mass Effect 3 if you died in Mass Effect 2 of course, but you'll have to create a new Shepard. Harsh? Yes. But we wouldn't be serious about the concept of a suicide mission if you couldn't die and your death didn't have serious consequences."

I actually just finished this yesterday with the full team alive. What about the rest of you?

Source: IGN

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