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We are only a few months past the launch of Mass Effect, and now one of Bioware’s senior developers is saying we could see Mass Effect 2 “soon.” Matt was asked when we could be seeing the sequel and he replied, “Well, the first one took three and a half years, but because we’ve got a lot of the tools and a base level now, it’s not going to take that long. I’d say soon, but not real soon.”

So the question everyone is asking is, how soon is soon? To me, soon means a couple of months. But in the timescale of video game releases, soon probably means a year or more. At the very earliest, I would predict a Mass Effect 2 launch around the Holiday 2008 season. But that’s not very likely since we haven’t seven seen any footage of Mass Effect 2.

For it to be released that soon after Mass Effect, it would have had to been in development during the original game… much like how Peter Jackson filmed all three Lord of the Rings movies at the same time.

I think a more realistic launch date would be Q3 2009, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed.

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