BioWare: Mass Effect Galaxy iPhone game 'a big mistake'

Mass Effect on home consoles was a hit, and Mass Effect 2 is many gamers' prime contender for game of the year. Mass Effect Galaxy on iPhone is different. In the words of Pocket Gamer's own Tracy Erickson, it's “light years from enjoyable.”

In an interview with videogamer.com, BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has admitted that Mass Effect Galaxy was a 'big mistake.'

He goes on to qualify this remark. “Maybe it wasn't even a mistake as much as we took a guess, our guess was wrong, and we learned something in the process - that the fundamental tactile gameplay is actually the key thing on the platform.” In that sense, “it was very worth doing”.

Will BioWare be taking another shot at iPhone?

“I don't know. We still poke around on it. At some level we're leaving the expertise on the iPhone to the folks who are experts. We'll explore stuff. For us, it may be things that link into other games. It's the cross-platform nature of the potential platform, like an iPhone app able to somehow access one of the other games' universes, or something. That would be really cool.”

If you want to see what Mass Effect Galaxy's like for yourself, click on the App Store icon below to download it. It costs £1.19 / $2.99.