Mass Effect 2 Interview
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RPGFan: Mass Effect 2 has ten playable characters, and you can only have three at once. Remembering Baldur's Gate 2, you had thirteen or fourteen characters, but you couldn't get some; say if you were Chaotic Evil you couldn't get that Lawful Good character. Will it be possible to recruit all of the characters? And if so, how will it work with those characters that are kind of mis-aligned from each other?
CH: Yeah, you can recruit them all, but it is a game where loyalty plays a big role. Loyalty is where there are conflicts and you may get two characters loyal, but they may come into conflict with you or each other. Depending on how you resolve the situation, you may gain or lose the loyalty of the characters.
Q: Is that displayed to the player as a reminder?
CH: Yeah, on the squad status screen it'll have a little glowing ring around the character. That's like your collection, where your team is. I have all of these characters, I'm missing that one, but these are loyal, and things like that. So you know that if you're going to head off to the final mission, you'll know if you have a sparse crew or if they're kind of disloyal.
