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Commander Shepard on cover of next OXM photo

My Commander Shepard looks like Peter Weller, yours may look like Sylvester Stallone. Either way, it doesn’t matter -- BioWare has a face for Shepard. Just look at your Mass Effect box.

Now look at the header image again.

Yep. That’s (probably) Commander Shepard and he’s gracing the cover of the July issue of Official Xbox Magazine. We don’t know what’s in the magazine (content, lol), but we have a feeling it’s a bit of an explanation about where Shepard has been, or at least, why he was teased as deceased a few months ago.

We’ll learn more about Mass Effect 2 at E3. And hopefully hear that Shepard isn’t dead and our equipment transfers over with our saves. (It took me a long time to construct that Robocop suit, BioWare. A long time.)

[via Joystiq and Deeko News]

[Update: Yep. I'm a failure. I somehow managed to botch the name at least five billion different ways in this article.]







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Reien's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:03
Reien
Good stuff.
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:04
covah
[ur]=http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/covah/lots-of-mass-effect-2-info-from-oxm-133260.phtml]I had a blog that has a bunch of info from that issue[/url]

Sheppard's life is still up in the air apparently.
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:05
covah
screwed that up
fix
blackdeath1347's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:08
blackdeath1347
Can't wait for E3 for new info on this! Also looking forward to getting this in the mail.
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:16
Puppy Licks
My Commander Shephard looks like Gary Sinise. Seriously.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:17
AngelsDontBurn
Dude's lookin' super shiny!
StingingVelvet's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:19
StingingVelvet
I love that the little "deceased" tease actually got people so worked up, as if marketing or cliffhanger endings have teased "OMG THEY KILLED THE MAIN CHARACTER" a thousand times before.

Good for their marketing department though... they know what they're doing. Can't wait for the game.
the GAMEGOBLIN's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:27
the GAMEGOBLIN
My dad walked in on me playing Mass Effect once and he asked me why I was playing a game with John Travolta in it :/

Literally he asked me "Why you play game with John Travolta"

The Portuguese accent really helped
HiddenAHB's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:29
HiddenAHB
Gotta. Buy. The. First. One.

PS: ASAP!!
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:33
ArrestedDeveloper
Technically the teaser only proved that Cerberus believes Shepard to be dead. If you've read the books you know that Cerberus is a badass rogue covert ops group obsessed with ensuring humanity's dominance by any means necessary. Case in point, they were responsible for introducing a ton of humans to element zero (through "accidents"), and when pregnant women are exposed to the element their in utero child can develop biotic abilities. So anyway, cerberus is trying to make super soldiers, they have men everywhere in all the government and military echelons and fans are assuming they are after shephard in the second game so the only way he can escape and do his job is to fake his own death.
the Golden Avatar's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:45
the Golden Avatar
Brad, it's neither Shepherd nor Shephard. It's Shepard.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:54
Darren Nakamura
Jesus is the only Shepard for me.
Brad Nicholson's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:57
Brad Nicholson
HAI GUYS, I LIEK SPELLING. ITS FUNDAMENTALIST.
the Golden Avatar's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 20:58
the Golden Avatar
@Brad

Try it again. Just once more.

:)
Brad Nicholson's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 21:00
Brad Nicholson
I, uh, need a drink or something. I blame this all on Microsoft.
boomfasa's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 21:01
boomfasa
Thats not what my Shepard looks like... its strange, all of the promotional material with the standard-shepard image feels like it must be for a different game then the one I played because of how differently mine looks.
the Golden Avatar's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 21:04
the Golden Avatar
@Brad

Jesus, Brad. Are you sure you haven't had too many drinks? It's still not right.
the Golden Avatar's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 21:23
the Golden Avatar
I knew it.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 21:54
Brian Szabelski
Just give me the damn game already. All this teasing is painful X_X
Twisted Imp's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 22:32
Twisted Imp
Just realized this now, but he looks an awful lot like World's Famous Robert Summa!
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2009 22:41
Chronic Logic
Is there an "official" Shepard look? Or can he shapeshift his face at will?
boomfasa's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2009 00:22
boomfasa
@chronic Both.
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2009 00:25
JRisJunior
so i guess the dude is NOT dead. who knows what this may or may not mean?
Los255's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2009 01:22
Los255
That's the look of my "good" Shepard. My "evil" Shepard has scar and is bald cause he's a badass and shit.
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2009 10:04
Maurice Tan
My good Shepard was supposed to look like O'Neill from SG-1. O'Neill Shepard was his name. Too bad he didn't really look like him :(
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2009 10:48
Holyetheline
I still need to beat the original mass effect.
IV Backstab MC's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2009 13:59
IV Backstab MC
My sheppard looks like christian bale if he had been doing meth for about ten years his motto is "I'm john connor and I'm a doucebag" also terminator story makes no sense and makes a lot of paradoxes.... Paradoxi....paradox's whatever
IV Backstab MC's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2009 14:02
IV Backstab MC
Also stargate sg-1 FTW
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