Mass Effect Trilogy: 9 Crazy Facts You Never Knew
4. SFX Magazine Forced The Series Name To Change
Names are always difficult to come up with, but
Bioware did a good job with Mass Effect. As well as sounding suitably
bombastic and attention-grabbing, it also illustrates the key concept
behind the games: That the player's actions will have a mass(ive) effect
on the story.
However, things could have been very different if Bioware had kept their original choice of name for the series.
Casey Hudson, Executive Producer on the series, revealed in an interview with Gizmodo that Mass Effect's codename in development was Science Fiction X, or SFX for short, and that many of the people who worked on the game genuinely wanted to call it SFX.
They were, thankfully, overturned.
Not only does Science Fiction X sound like the world's most lazily-titled erotic novel (which would have given FOX News' moral outrage partial justification), the acronym SFX is already used by a famous British sci-fi mag. It was the latter point that caused Bioware to drop the name and go with Mass Effect.