Mass Effect 3 Review → Gaming Trend

GamingTrend:
Those of you who have been reading my reviews for the past decade know that I love Bioware. The Baldur’s Gate series, the MDK series, the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series, Jade Empire, and the Dragon Age series are all visible from where I sit. They represent one of the few times I’ve felt truly starstruck when visiting a game studio, despite having gone to a great many over the years. Bioware makes the games that I love to play, and other than Blizzard, they represent the only developer that makes games that I buy sight-unseen. The secret is right there for all to see – Bioware takes great pride in their work, and it shows in every game they launch.

[Captain Qwark 9]

i agree with this score 100%, such an amazing game.

[luoshuigui]

i'd give it a 9 out of 10, laziness(face code transfer, technical issues,etc) minus 0.5, ending minus 0.5

[Captain Qwark 9]

sounds reasonable, the import thing would bother me too if my dumb ass didn't lose my old saves and was able to import. I haven't beat it yet so i cant comment on the ending but it seems the general consensus is that it blows. i wouldnt be surprised if it does blow anyway, i love biowares games but i have yet to play one with a good ending, they are usually just too short or just dont feel conclusive enough.

my only complaints so far ( about 15hrs in ) would be the animations are a little stiff and some of the human character models don't look that great. very minor things like that which barely take away from the experience for me.

[Krakn3Dfx]

First 6-8 hours seem really lazy to me, but then it picked it picked up, and I'm hooked again. I'm about 13 hours in now, can't wait til I have more time to play.

[BattleTorn]

I was the opposite. For my first 10hours I was absolutely in love with the game.

then I found out how few squad members there are, and I instantly felt as though I'd played through too much, too soon.

I feel like they made it far too short. And the fact that they added MP to such a lacking SP is just mindblowing.

ME1 had 6 sqaudmates.
ME2 had 10 by default (1 being a choice between 2) + 2 via DLC = total 12.
ME3 has 6 by default (1 being a choice of 2) and +1 via DLC =total 7

How the hell can they go from 6, to 12, to 7.

And in ME3 there's only 2 *new characters, one of which I had to buy. (James is otherwise the only new addition, lame!)

I quickly fell in and out of love with ME3.

Go look at the Character ME Wiki page:
http://masseffect.wikia.com...

You'll see;

ME1 had (...this much...)
ME2 had (.............this much............)
ME3 has (......this much.....)

[FCOLitsjustagame]

So they had 6 in ME1, tried 12 in ME2 but realized that was way too many to get people the dialogue they wanted and settled on 7 in ME3 (seems like a reasonable compromise considering many people thought ME1 > ME2).

As for new characters, this is the last episode of a trilogy. There should NOT be that many new characters.
Ep. 1 is for setting up main plot and introducing the main characters (Star Wars).

Ep. 2 is for advancing character development and learning more details of the world at large and maybe bringing in a few extra characters to help out the main plot(Empire strikes back).

Ep. 3 is for resolving all the issues and the fate of the characters you came to like (Return of the Jedi).

Can you imagine watching return of the Jedi and suddenly having a bunch of new characters to deal with? Who cares about them, I want to know what happened to the original heroes and maybe a Lando Carission or Boba Fett. There are enough new new minor characters (Turian generals and salarian leaders [ewoks or whatever]) to keep the galaxy living and breathing. I just want to know the fate of the Original 6 and the additional ones from ME2. Seems (so far) the game is doing a good job of that.

[chanmasta]

This game is so over-rated.