Mass Effect 3

(Some Spoilers Main Spoilers Marked)

A lot of people start trilogy from the first one... unless you’re like George Lucas and want to go backwards like me.

Single Player

Note:  I played this in Role Playing Mode

 

I have never felt so emotionally attached to a game character as I did with Female Sheppard everything that happened to her I felt was happening to me, I have spent over 40 hours on the single player of this game and am now on my second run through, For once in a game I bothered with all the side quests which Have opened the story even more.

The atmosphere of the Mass Effect 3 Words is stunning, you can go from Dessert like land scapes to Lush Forrest’s and they are all stunning, The music really makes this game, like something you would here from a Oscar winning composer and another thing that draws you into the ME world. So much effort has been put into ever last scene in this game and in my words sound and visual wise this game is spectacular.

Now for the Game play, I have been dabbling with Mass Effect 1 in the past week and can really see how much the gun play has improved, in ME3 it is smooth and flawless, compared to the first games very jerky and unsteady scope it makes it much more enjoyable. The only flaw I did find was with the melee system, allot of the time you would find you south missing the enemy facing the wrong way and not knowing where they had jumped to. 

I think jumping into ME3 without playing the first 2 games can be a bit frustrating at first getting you bearings learning the menus and how to navigate area of the game, which has not changed much from the first game.  The character customization still could use more... not many hair styles to choose from for Fem shep and they seem to have removed some of the styles from the first 2 games. I manually levelled up my character as I played so I could have her as I wanted but there is the option to auto level up if you not to phased with where you skill points are going. On you first play through expect to get to around the high 30s low 40s in level but you can import your ME3 character into a new game keeping all you skills and powers, or if you have a save from ME2 you can import you character from there.

** ENDING SPOILER – Do not read the next section if you do not want the ending spoilt **

The end of ME3 for me was a little disappointing, you seem to have to options of how to end it but I tried both and they both ended the same only difference was you either destroyed the reavers or controlled them... but no matter what you sacrifice yourself, The Normandy Crashes and the Mass Relays go Bye bye. I do feel there was a lead in for a ME4 with the ending showing a man talking to a child so let’s hope so.

All up this was an Amazing single player experience and I highly recommend it to anyone even if you are not a Mass Effect Fan like me, this game may just change your mind.

Multiplayer

When I first looked at the ME3 Multi I was very sceptical, It is only a 4 player Survival Co Op so it doesn’t sound to thrilling to start with, But fuck was I surprised, this is very addictive I really enjoyed playing this with my friends for hours on end seeing how far we could get who could do the stupidest thing, who could die the most and laugh at the last one standing when all hope was lost.

 

Levelling up in MP is very easy... you have 6 characters to select and if you play with them all you overall rank will fly up allot quicker then sticking with one; so far I have enjoyed using the engineer class but am not dabbling with the spectre. Soldier is kind of boring maybe because I used this class on my single player character but it is the noob character of choice.

Weapon ranking and upgrades is by luck, you have to purchase crates with the credits you earn in MP I suggest just keep buying the recruit pack when u start off to get some weapon upgrades and gadgets to use in the matches. This is also the easiest way to get the Trophy or Achievement for level 10 weapon; I got it within a few crates. Character customization is a bit bleh to start with but you do unlock skins and patterns as you play and buy crates, I like making my character very obnoxious colour or my fave leopard lady.

EA has recently released a free MP pack on PSN and Xbox Live with 2 new levels so if you haven’t already get into it.

Overall Mass Effect 3 is one of the best Games I have played in a long time; this game has High replayability as you can take a few different paths throughout the career.

My rating for ME3 is 10 out of 10 GOTY for sure!