The Mass Effect 2 interview on guardian.co.uk talks with BioWare producer Adrien Cho about the upcoming RPG sequel. The conversation invokes the Modern Warfare series a couple of times as part of the gradual repositioning of the Mass Effect series as more of a shooter, though they maintain the game's role-playing does not suffer along the way: "When Mass Effect came out it was fairly unique. There was nothing else really like it around and it set a benchmark. It was the first game to really meld shooting and role playing games. I call it a Sci-Fi action/RPG/Shooter. So we haven't taken away any of this for Mass Effect 2. What we have done is focus on the shooter aspects more. We wanted to make it more visceral. We did this because we wanted to open up the audience to gamers who like Gears of War or Modern Warfare and introduce them to a genre that they may normally ignore. The upshot of this is they may notice the great things about Bioware games such as believable characters and great stories. If you can convince them that this is a fantastic shooter but then they will discover that there is so much more to Mass Effect 2 than that." Thanks Joker961.