Mass Effect 3

Maynpayn · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:50 am

There's some Mass effect 3 news swarming the net now and here is some compiled news

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Humans aren't the only species that can be Husk-ified.

ME3 begins with Earth's assault by the Reapers, and things don't look so good, but there's something that is a silver lining, that makes it look like it's actually possible to not lose against the reapers .

TIM has sent his top agents to take down Shepard, The combat is going to be much harder and melee attacks are going to have more focus.

Shooting specific armor parts can have certain effects, and the AI of the enemies will have them routing Shepard and will coordinate with each other

Battlefields are going to be a great deal larger, and combat will be very varied.

Enemy Weapons can be PICKED UP. Soldiers can carry all kinds of weapons, and other classes understandably less so.

There is a larger skill tree and RPG aspects are going to be more integrated.

Weapon Modding is a greenlight, with things like barrels and scopes

Modding your weapons will vastly affect their appearance and how they function in battle

So far the CONFIRMED SQUADMATES are: Ashley/Kaiden, Liara, Garrus, and James Sanders who is mentioned is an Alliance Marine (although these guys are confirmed squadmembers, it isn't specified if they are permanent members or members for single missions)

Species Loyalty cannot only get obtained via Quests

Levels will have ladders

Available Squadmates will still maintain a balance, if per say Garrus had not survived ME2's events

ME1's Decisions such as sparing the Rachni will have a grave impact in ME3

There's no railroad to the end of the game, there are multiple paths to take back Earth

in ME3, you will start off with most of your powers from ME2, that will be able to evolve multiple times

Update:
Casey hudson video interviews
How Mass Effect Began
Feedback and Naming in Mass effect

other video interviews
Creating the diffrent alien species
creating Garrus and the turians
Sound design

some info about specific characters

Spoiler: show

Mass Effect 3 is currently supposed to be released November 8th this year.

katsujinken25 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:26 am

Can't wait for this. This series has become one of my favorites. I love the ambition in tying choices and events throughout all 3 games with actual bearing on the story, rather than just have characters mention "hey remember that time you did X, that was cool, moving on!"

phobos24 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:16 am

This just might be the most awaited game of this year......just loved the last two games, but unfortunately i lost all my saves.
This is most certainly going to be the best in the series!!!

acelister · **Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:42 am

katsujinken25 wrote:

Can't wait for this. This series has become one of my favorites. I love the ambition in tying choices and events throughout all 3 games with actual bearing on the story, rather than just have characters mention "hey remember that time you did X, that was cool, moving on!"

I thought that had happened in ME2... "Do you remember who you sponsored to get into the Council?" - Yeah, I do, so you'd best let me meet him! "'Kay!" Yay!

I'm excited. This will vary wildly from player-to-player. Although two people saved the Rachni, did they also both sponsor Anderson? Did they also let Kaiden die? Did they ALSO get Grunt through the suicide mission?

So many variations - I can't wait. When I first read about Mass Effect, and the fact they had a storyline that spanned three games, I was excited. Then I read that things from the first game would later affect the third game - being a continuity nut, that was wonderful news.

Southparkfanatic333 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:38 pm

they made so many improvements between me1 and me2 and it looks like theres going to be some great improvements between me2 and me3
this is what i want to see

1. Deeper romance relationships- both games you talk to them a couple of times then just before the final mission you get to have sex with them... wow bioware you can do a lot better you should like be able to do different things with your romance like take them out on dates and instead of a sex scene before the final mission if you have a romance continued from me1 or me2 maybe shepard and the romance could get like married because they might die on the mission and a deeper relationship system would help silence the people who said me2 wasnt rpg enough i mean i know it sounds a bit weird but shepard marrying his romance would be a satisfying conclusion especially if you had the same romance through all 3 games
2. Improved Armour customization- i love the customization for me2 but it can be improved, eg more variety and customizing squad armour that sort of thing and more casual outfits, in ME2 it took me ages to decide what colour i wanted so more colours and the ability to make each part of the armour that you can change a different colour
3. Player Housing- i dont mean actual housing but more customization of shepards cabin and the normandy itself again more rpg type options you know it makes it more personal and more upgrades to the normandy that change the way it looks
4. More action cutscenes- the cutscenes where shepard does awesome things, in mass effect 1 and 2 most of these were in the final mission and i think they should be in more levels because its great to watch a nicely animated shepard doing something heroic and awesome and make the situation in the finale so completely hopeless that when shepard wins (assuming he does win) its an amazing victory
5. Improved interruption system- the interruption system was great in me2 but one thing instead of having a renegade symbol come up from time to time or a paragon symbol come up time to time how about having a renegade interruption and a paragon interruption come up at the same time so it forces you to choose
6. A physical enemy- it was awesome in me1 having saren as the main villain he was just one guy, he had a personality and the reapers were just a background threat, a physical enemy you can dislike is way better than just "the collectors" or "the reapers"
7. Improved Face customization- lets face it, the face customization in mass effect sucks there arent that many options and its hard to make a character that looks good, more hairstyles, more beards etc
8. More set pieces- the car chase in shadow broker was awesome more stuff like that but more length and even more vehicles like maybe a speeder bike type thing like the ones from star wars, and maybe a free fall section, maybe shepard could take control of the normandys turret and have to defend it like the scene in matrix reloaded, just more things that make you feel awesome
9. improved melee
10. Weapon customization- a la army of two 40th day, make your weapons personal although they have now said you can change barrels and scopes and stuff so this one ilooks like it will be in it
11. Give Shepard A PERSONALITY!!!- im sorry mark meer has a very heroic voice but every line he says is completely emotionless, and why does every paragon line sound like a question? hes either a naivve idiot (paragon) or a complete ****(renegade) sure maybe sacrifice some dialog options and give shepard more scripted lines so hes actually a three dimensional character and jennifer hale does a good job as female shepard but fem-shep is still very two dimensional
12. Show us what the quarians look like- tali is the best romance option and she obviously isnt ugly because when shepard romances her and sees her face he doesnt even flinch it would just be interesting to see what they look like
13. Hard choices with big consequences
14. Interesting character development- apart from their loyalty missions the characters, including shepard, dont change at all make all the characters three dimensional

doomedfortune · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:23 pm

almost cant wait till winter

shavedwookie · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:34 pm

I loved the first two and I am really looking forward to the third game. This one sounds like they have made a really good balance with RPG and action game. Hopefully it lives up to the hype. I would like alot less digging for soils or aimlessly driving around planets!

garyr85 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:35 pm

This game is going to be EPIC!!!! I enjoyed the first 2 so much i made sure to get all the DLC as well. The release date can't come soon enough

Southparkfanatic333 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 12:00 am

some new details
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/7 ... ens-flare/
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/7 ... -spoilers/

garyr85 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 12:07 pm

The screen shots in your first link southparkfanatic333 look amazing looks like the engine has improved a fair amount since ME2

Maynpayn · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 6:28 pm

Maybe the guy in the front in the first pic is one of the antagonist, like Saren in the first game, but he is working for cerberus.

Maynpayn · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:10 am

updated the first post with some video interviews and a pic

Southparkfanatic333 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:52 pm

interesting pic in the first post not sure about ashley and kaidens remodel and the fact that they have both been promoted to spectres is a bit weird also i thought they said that james sanders was not the guy in the trailer

Maynpayn · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:00 pm

maybe that pic is the reason they released that statement :shrug:

Kevs · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 9:20 am

Game of the year, played through the first one maybe 4-5 times. The second one was good but I think the first one will always be my favourite.

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