Bioware project director Casey Hudson has told us that if you don't make the right choices in Mass Effect 2, the game's ending could be a complete bloodbath

"At the beginning of the game, you start to get an idea of something really scary, really dangerous, that you’re going to have to do at the very end of the game," Hudson said.

"To get ready for that you’re going to have to build up your crew, build the best team that you can, build up your ship, and then when you think you’re ready you’re gonna go in and do it."

"If you don’t do a lot of the stuff, or make the right kind of choices, the ending will be a bloodbath, and the people that you brought with you will die, and it’ll be a great ending, but it’ll be that kind of ending."

Hudson also said that while previous squad members from Mass Effect will return, none of them will be recruitable.

"All the squad members that you pick up are completely new characters," he said. "Some of them from races that have never been in your squad before."

"It’s going to be larger squad, a lot more varied and very, very different kinds of characters. "Everyone that you can take with you is a different character from before."

Check back soon for our full Mass Effect 2 interview with Casey Hudson.

[UPDATE]: Bioware has informed us that Hudson's comments on returning squad members was incorrect. Apparently it will be possible in some instances to recruit characters in Mass Effect 2 that were recruitable in the first game.