IGN: Mass Effect 3 Review

Colin Moriarty writes:

"Few games come with the amount of hype Mass Effect 3 has swirling around it. As the culmination of BioWare's epic sci-fi RPG trilogy, Mass Effect 3 hasn't garnered this groundswell in an artificial way. Rather, anticipation steadily sits at a fever pitch because the previous installments -- Mass Effect, and especially Mass Effect 2 -- rate amongst the best games ever made. And in many ways, Mass Effect 3 has set the bar even higher as the worthy conclusion to one of the finest stories ever told in gaming history, even if it's still admittedly imperfect."

[LX-General-Kaos]

Amazing score for an amazing game.

After playing through the previous Mass Effect titles. I am not surprised by this review. I am looking very much forward to trying out the new Kinect voice commands. A new twist to the madness with pure innovation.

Rated E For Everyone

[NukaCola]

Game is getting great scores. Can't wait to play it.

[EVILDEAD360]

Can't WAIT to lose my life again in the ME universe

Life is good..

Evil

[zeal0us]

Glad I pre-order it, I know what I'll be spending Tuesday and the rest of the month doing.

[Danteh]

I am commander Shepard and I am going to play the hell out of this game!

[Anon1974]

Fantastic. I have to admit, I have yet to play the series but as soon as I have time, Mass Effect is on my list and I can't wait to spend some time with them.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. Whenever something becomes popular, doesn't matter if it's games, movies, tv shows, music...you'll always have a subset who suddenly have to hate it. You see it all the time. It happened to Rock Star, it happened to Infinity Ward, then it happened to Bioware were suddenly, it was cool to take to the internet and hate on them despite the solid product they continue to put out.

I'm glad to see so many on here enthusiastically recognizing a great game they can't wait to get their hands on. It's refreshing after all the pissing and moaning about DLC and the Bioware hate leading up to ME3's release.

[da_2pacalypse]

I'll wait for a price drop or goty edition. that's what Bioware gets for cheaping out.

[guitarded77]

I got it in the mail today... sadly, I'm trying to finish ME2 quick, fast and in a hurry before playing 3.

[Army_of_Darkness]

Afterall, IGN's Jessica chobot is in it;)

[Simon_Brezhnev]

I got the game on PC. I have to admit even thought i usually dislike Sci-fi shit this game is actually good so far. I'm 2 hours in the game so far.

[Pushagree]

The demo bored me to death. This is jsut another one of those free pass reviews since the game is so popular. There is no way any real gamer could find this game to be fun. Maybe a movie would be a better idea.

[JeffGUNZ]

Are you kidding me? The demo got me so hooked on the series again. I can't get the game for another week and a half, so I was pissed I played the demo. The story is amazing in this series, how was it boring?

[STONEY4]

Guess I'm not a real gamer. *sobs*

[EmperorDalek]

Have you played ME2? The demo for that sucked too, but the full game was/is epic.

[MysticStrummer]

That's how I felt about the ME2 demo. I was so excited that the series was coming to PS3 until I played that demo and it killed all my interest. I didn't bother checking out the ME3 demo, even though a girl I know is engaged to one of the devs who worked on the co-op part of the game and she bugged me constantly about giving it a look. The Binary Domain demo reminded me of the ME2 demo. Cool looking story and cinematics combined with uninteresting gameplay, though Binary Domain's shooting gameplay was better imo.

[trancefreak]

I played Mass Effect 2 thought it was amazing. I mean you control your destiny. You do anything you want but some time I would get stuck not following the mission path properly and that drove me nutz. But to say the game is bore well I dunno about that.

[Nozzle]

I don't know.....

I like ME3 but the whole Jessica Chobot thing, like how she's in the game, would get praise from IGN from the start.

[The_Nameless_One]

I mistakenly clicked on her in the Citadel, they wisely had her back facing me, so when I realized the mistake I made I told her to fuck off.

[FrankDrebin]

The problem with this site is that people waste time arguing about which system is better. That is the underlining theme. The truth is, play it on your favorite console and enjoy the great experience. They don't come along as much as they should. You should all listen to me, I'm a cop (that I played on TV before I died).

I'll play it on the PC. That's me. It's an amazing game and looks great!

[bobrea]

46 Disagrees on your comment...uhh, what?

[majiebeast]

@reddead destroyer
Atari 2600>xbox 360 version...
Cake version>pie version

[hulk_bash1987]

About to pick up my copy when i get off of work. Cant wait to play it.

[slevin_77]

WTF metacritic user score?

[Aloren]

Just a bunch of hysterical kids who gave the game 0 to crash the score.

[Kingdom Come]

Just like Bioware did with "The Witcher 2"?:
http://uk.gamespot.com/drag...

[Aloren]

Does that make it right ?

[Sargerus]

MW3 user scores anyone?

[Chrono]

Now some people will complain it's not a 10.

[WitWolfy]

Yeah like me.. 9.5 is an atrocious score!!! LOL just kidding.. CANT WAIT TO FINISH THIS!!! My thumbs are getting all excited just thinking about it :D

[TekoIie]

Personally think no game deserves a 10. A perfect score implies a perfect game and there's always at least one thing wrong with every game, even our favourites :/

[GamersRulz]

looks like the PS3 got the finest ME of them all.

Great!! Mass Effect 3, Journey and Twisted Metal will be added to my collection soon.

[Kingdom Come]

The original Mass Effect was the finest in my personal opinion.

[MariaHelFutura]

Exactly.

[Kur0]

Which I enjoyed in all its 1080p glory on PC.

[theWB27]

I've already picked my copy up and started the fight. Goodbye hours!

[WitWolfy]

You lucky dog!!! I only get my copy on Friday!!! DAMN YOU US citizens for getting games earlier then us EU peasants! ;)

[theWB27]

Hilarious : )

[SageHonor]

This review felt really brief

[rattletop]

whoa. that's a kickass page ign

[MrChow666]

is this a review of the demo or wtf

[Bordel_1900]

I finished ME2 on my PS3, but now I've bought an Alienware PC, should I still get it for my PS3 or should I go for the PC version?

Do I gain anything from running it on my PS3? I.e. does ME3 use the old save game from ME2?

[Disccordia]

Start from ME1 on PC.

[Bordel_1900]

he he, yeah, I guess that's an option aswell.

[Disccordia]

I know it's annoying but I only say it because you'll get a much better experience. I watched somebody play ME2 on the PS3 and was surprised by how many little subtle things were missed out compared to the PC/360 versions (due to not being able to import a save).

It's not going to change the game in a massive way but it's nice to be able to meet the characters you met in the first game. So if you have the chance, start from the beginning!

[00]

If your a fan of both ME1 and ME2 the ending is going to make you regret enjoying them. the only good thing about ME3 is the multi-player.

[WitWolfy]

Im predicting a sad tragic ending so im not to phased of what the out come is... I wanna see the adventure that leads to climax :)

[00]

No the "endings" are not sad but bad in the WTF were they thinking kind of way.

[ginsunuva]

This game lacks that sci-fi feel and incredible art style of the first two. Now it's just a bland shooter with REALLY bad writing. It's so incredibly cheesy that it's almost laughable.

Also, just because I feel like advertising, EVERYONE GO PLEDGE TO AUDITORIUM-DUET ON KICKSTARTER! I don't want that goal to be left unreached.

[JeffGUNZ]

...says the guy with one bubble.

[STONEY4]

The sci-fi feel is there just as much as ever. The art style is also much less dreary than ME2 and more in tone with ME1, and I'm only about 5 hours in. Soundtrack is a bit more synthy like ME1 instead of the Holywood-style ME2 music. So far, I've spent less time in combat than exploring and doing dialogue.

[Der_Kommandant]

Let's kick some reapers ass!

[MasterD919]

I can't wait for my game to arrive here today...I knew the review scores would be this good and don't even care! I just want to play and finish my Shep storyline.

I have a universe to save dammit!

[JonnyBigBoss]

Still downloading. Can't wait for this torrent to finish.

[Yodagamer]

thank you for making someone lose money from there hardwork, people like you are the reason why developers don't innovate games anymore, because they are scared to lose money so they sell games like cod that will make lots of money, despite piracy, smh

[frelyler]

Curious, IGN mentions the stutter on the ps3 occasionally, but completely ignores the disc swapping on the 360. Wouldn't having to get up, go to your console and physically swapping discs break the experience just as much as a stutter? I believe that is important to mention but they failed to do so.

[BraveToaster]

WAIT A SECOND. IGN gave a game a 9?!?!? OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD. THIS IS TOTALLY NEWS

[TheLastGuardian]

The Mass Effect series is overrated.

[SneeringImperialist]

*Very angry response claiming how you are a troll and what not*

[TheLastGuardian]

Ahh yes, that's just what I wanted. /s

Saying Mass Effect is overrated makes you a troll now? Interesting.

[honkyjesus]

Very angry response to his response considering you are a fanboy.

[honkyjesus]

Considering the game was sponsored by Chobot's fifty pound head this is... surprising?

Journalistic integrity. Editorial integrity. You are doing it wrong.

[Sarcasmology]

People still give a rat's ass what IGN has to say? Embarrassing.

[BraveToaster]

Right? I thought everyone figured out they are paid to give every popular game a 9 a long time ago.

[Kostchtchie]

LOL 9.5... another sad day in gaming history

[spike]

Great game i'm 3 hours into it and having a blast

[ilovemyps3]

Great game.

[portugamer]

For the guy above, fighting with his computer, updates, partitions, manual installations,etc., to be able to play his me3 game.

That's exactly WHY I stopped gaming on a pc, more than 10 years ago.

Playing a game should be fun, and not a headache, dealing with cards drivers, DirectX, extra tuned beta graphic drivers, resolutions, choosing quality profiled, doing benchmarks to know which resolutions the pc will handle, mapping keys, hearing a clic on every keystroke, pausing the game to reply to a message on msn/other chats, pausing the game because someone commented a picture on facebook, sliding under the desk, sitting uncomfortably for hours, on a chair, having a neck and back ache, eyes fatigued because the monitor is really close to the head, hands hurting because of that heavy wireless mouse, compressed stereo sound only, for most people, keyboard full of food, sodas all over the desk, room/bedroom too hot, because of the pc generating lots of heat, forced to open some windows, in order to cool down the room and the computer, and now, we have a lot of noise coming from the streets,cars,birds,dogs,people . Because of that extra noise, we have to turn up the volume, making the sound look less clear, and more distorted. Add this the nocd crack, that isn't very stable(yeah, games are massively pirated on PCs,we all know that, and that's the main reason why people say the pc version is the best , bla bla, and and why these same people hate consoles).well, even if , Mayne,it isn't the best version, at least, its the less expensive one.
The nocd crack fails, after a game update, its necessary to uninstall and reinstall all those +12 gb again, during a good time.because of this reinstall, we need to do a defrag, so the game isn't spread all over the disk, making hicups and bigger loading times

This is, for 90% of pc gamers, who aren't geeks and have their computer ready to play a game, this is what represents playing games on a computer.

OR you can do like me, who press the home button on my dualshock, it turns my ps3 on and sets the tv on the good hdmi in, then I turn on my av amplifier, go to the kitchen, grab a fresh soda or a pina colada,and lay down on my couch, all this done in 1 minute, I'm ready to play the game and have fun, with the maximum comfort as possible, that the couch can give me.

Do you think I would like to move to PCs, and start playing mass effect 3 or other games, on that platform?

My answer: N O, T H A N K S :)

[Kos-Mos]

Now we all love ign..again. How long will it last this time?

[vikingland1]

I don't care if they gave it a 9 or a 1 . I am dying to play this series to the end.I played 1&2 on xbox and I have allready did my import and played for 2 hrs. It was cool to see all the choices I made right in front of my face....it's been awhile I didn't remember if I saved the racni or not..but it showed me when I imported my character,I saved the racni I wonder if it will have any bearing on my game one way or the other.I will find out.