Mass Effect 3 Wii U Port Detailed, Release Date Announced

New and old content is included in the Mass Effect 3 Wii U port, apparently now titled “Mass Effect 3: Special Edition”, as detailed in a recent BioWare Blog post by external producer Melanie Faulknor, which also announces the port’s release date.

Included in the edition are some of the DLC released to date, an updated version of the Genesis interactive comic book already available for Mass Effect 2, and, of course, a few interface features to take advantage of the platform’s GamePad:

The Mass Effect 3 Special Edition for Wii U is my first project as an External Producer, which means I work with both our internal teams and our external partner, in this case Straight Right from Australia. As this was the first time a Mass Effect game would be on a Nintendo console, we wanted to make sure we had a partner that really had a lot of experience working with Nintendo and that’s what Straight Right delivered.

This was important because this was more than just a standard port project. We’ve added additional content and new features to fully utilize the Wii U GamePad. Our team in Edmonton and the team at Straight Right was working together constantly to create a feature set we think would enhance Mass Effect 3 and we’re proud of the results! You can control your squadmates, utilize both Shepard and your squad’s abilities and even play Mass Effect 3 all from the GamePad something that comes in super handy if someone else in the house wants to watch or use the TV.

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And now that all the hard work is done, we’re excited to be able to confirm that Mass Effect 3 Special Edition for the Wii U is a launch title for the new console. It will be available when the console launches in North America (November 18), Europe (November 30) and Japan (December 5).