Mass Effect 2 too big for One Disk
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The sheer number of foxy blue alien women in Mass Effect 2 has pushed the limits of the DVD format’s storage capabilities. As a result, BioWare is spreading the Xbox 360 and PC game across two discs.
While that won’t mean that much to owners of the PC version—it’s a two-disc install—poor Xbox 360 owners will suffer the galactic inconvenience of a disc swap at some point. Chris Priestly, community coordinator of BioWare, says it’s not so bad.
“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,” Priestly wrote on the Mass Effect 2 forums. “You do not swap back and forth. 1 swap and then done.”
There is also a 3 Disk version of the game, but that’s only included in the Collector’s Edition version of Mass Effect 2, offering “making of” content on a dedicated DVD.