Frank Gibeau, EA Games boss, has today revealed that Mass Effect 3 is compatible with the Kinect to make the game less intimidating to the general public.
In an interview with Eurogamer, Gibeau was quoted as saying, “grow the audience and make it more accessible.”
He went on to say, “Mass Effect has a fairly complicated combat system. You’ve got story and choice. For some fans that don’t buy 12 games a year and maybe buy two or three, some of those things can be intimidating. We wanted to open up the accessibility without hurting the depth or the quality. Kinect is a fantastic technology that allows us to do that.”
“For core gamers, they just liked the fact they could even be more powerful with it,” he said. “With new gamers they felt they could get into it much easier.”
“We think it about it as the core and more. Not more, leave the core. That’s a recipe for failure. You have to be smart about it. You can’t dumb the game down. But at the same time you have to make it so a lot more people can play it than just core gamers.”
Mass Effect is coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 6th 2012, it will be interesting to see how will the Kinect works with the game and whether it is indeed a wise move to make the new Microsoft peripheral such an integral part to the game.
