Mass Effect 2 was cut out of same-sex relationship with Jack due to criticism of the first part on television in the USA
Mass Effect 2 writer Brian Kindregan told The Gamer that a girl named Jack from the mentioned BioWare project was originally planned to be made pansexual, but this decision was abandoned during the production process. The reason was the criticism of the first part of the series on television in the United States.
[TV] Fox News criticized Mass Effect in the States quite strongly and without much reason,” Brian Kindregan said, referring to a 2007 discussion about sex scenes in the project. Then several journalists accused the game of objectifying women, and the organizer of The Game Awards Geoff Keighley tried to prove the opposite.
“The Mass Effect 2 development team was progressive and open-minded, ” Kindregan continued, “but there were serious concerns that if the first part, which included only one same-sex romance with Liara – in fact, not one, since the girl belonged to the mono gender race – caused a stormy scandal, then Mass Effect 2 should be more careful. “
The creators of Mass Effect 2 wanted to make Jack pansexual so that Shepard could have an affair with her regardless of the gender of the protagonist. However, the team was then instructed to implement a “more traditional relationship” with this character, which the developers did. True, the heroine had replicas hinting at the possibility of having an affair with her Shepard the woman.
