EA announced today at GamesCom that Mass Effect 2 will be coming to the PS3 in January 2011. According to EA, the PlayStation 3 edition will include the full game with hours of bonus content.

EA have not indicated whether Mass Effect, the first game in the franchise, will be ported to PlayStation 3, so how Bioware intend to solve the problem of players not having played the original Mass Effect (this was designed as a trilogy, with continuing story, remember) has not been indicated, but EA assure us that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 will be the “perfect introduction” to the franchise.

Mass Effect 2 was originally released on Xbox 360 and the PC in January 2010.