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Mass Effect 2 - Requires Disc Swapping - Will be on Two Discs

by Aries100, 2009-12-04 15:46:05

Mass Effect 2 will require you to swap discs -  on the Xbox 360 at least. So sayeth Chris Priestly in a post at the ME2 forums:

Ok some details for you.

1 - Yes, there are 2 game discs for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions, both the Collector's and standard editions.

2 - There is a 3rd disc with the Collector's Edition. This is a movie DvD containing making of and other bonus information.

3 - The PC version is a standard install. You install the information from both discs and then play with 1 disc in the drive. No swapping.

4 - The Xbox 360 does not have an install and does require disc swapping during play.

5 - Even though there is a disc swap, it occurs at a carefully planned place in the game (that does not interfere with gameplay) and is done once. You do not swap back and forth. 1 swap and then done.

6 - Why 2 discs? Answer: Because you cannot fit this much awesome on one disc.

Hope this helps.

Do you think many more games will be coming out on two discs?  And when will see the first game out on Blu-Ray disc - for the PC, I mean.


Source: GameBanshee

Information about

Mass Effect 2

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360
Release: Released


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