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Mass Effect 3

by Electronic Arts
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (173 customer reviews)

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  • ASIN: B004T8C20U
  • Item Weight: 118 g
  • Release Date: 9 Mar 2012
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (173 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 97 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

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Platform: PC

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Go weapons-hot in a fully immersive sci-fi epic that reacts to every decision you make.

Not everyone will survive. An ancient alien race, known only as “Reapers”, has launched an all-out invasion leaving nothing but a trail of destruction in their wake. Earth has been taken, the galaxy is on the verge of total annihilation, and you are the only one who can stop them. The price of failure is extinction. You are Commander Shepard, a character that you can forge in your own image. You determine how events will play out, which planets to explore, and whom to form alliances with as you rally a force to eliminate the Reaper threat once and for all. How you wage this war is completely up to you: go into combat with guns blazing or use cover to plan a more tactical assault. Utilize your squad to full effect or take a lone wolf approach. Rain death from a distance or go toe–to-toe with enemies using devastating melee attacks. Mass Effect 3 will react to each decision you make as you play through a truly unique experience of your own creation.

Features:

  • A rich, branching storyline: Experience a sci-fi epic with multiple endings determined by your choices and actions throughout the game.
  • Massive in scope: Battle on many worlds across the galaxy as you unite the ultimate force to take back the Earth before it’s too late.
  • Large-scale and intelligent enemies: Battle enormous enemies and take on a smarter type of foe that will consistently challenge your best combat tactics and put you on the edge of your seat.
  • Unlock a customizable arsenal: Tailor each weapon with devastating upgrades including scopes, grips, barrels and dozens of other unique attachments. Each weapon boasts its own powerful impact and visual flair.
  • Unleash death from afar or go toe-to-toe: Customize your soldier and squad to engage the enemy on your terms. A huge variety of weapons, abilities and equipment allow you to combat the enemy in your preferred style of play.

Please note that all PC Video Games require the installation of additional client software, in this case the ‘Origin Application Software’ (see www.origin.com/about). For more information, including the Origin End User License Agreement that must be accepted, please see www.ea.com/1/product-eulas.

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Not everyone will survive. An ancient alien race, known only as "Reapers", has launched an all-out invasion leaving nothing but a trail of destruction in their wake. Earth has been taken, the galaxy is on the verge of total annihilation, and you are the only one who can stop them. The price of failure is extinction.

You are Commander Shepard, a character that you can forge in your own image. You determine how events will play out, which planets to explore, and whom to form alliances with as you rally a force to eliminate the Reaper threat once and for all. How you wage this war is completely up to you: go into combat with guns blazing or use cover to plan a more tactical assault. Utilize your squad to full effect or take a lone wolf approach. Rain death from a distance or go toe-to-toe with enemies using devastating melee attacks. Mass Effect 3 will react to each decision you make as you play through a truly unique experience of your own creation.

  • A rich, branching storyline: Experience a sci-fi epic with multiple endings determined by your choices and actions throughout the game
  • Massive in scope: Battle on many worlds across the galaxy as you unite the ultimate force to take back the Earth before it's too late
  • Large-scale and intelligent enemies: Battle enormous enemies and take on a smarter type of foe that will consistently challenge your best combat tactics and put you on the edge of your seat
  • Unlock a customizable arsenal: Tailor each weapon with devastating upgrades including scopes, grips, barrels and dozens of other unique attachments. Each weapon boasts its own powerful impact and visual flair.
  • Unleash death from afar or go toe-to-toe: Customize your soldier and squad to engage the enemy on your terms. A huge variety of weapons, abilities and equipment allow

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Paul
Platform for Display:PC
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Mass Effect 3 contains some of the best written storytelling in videogame history. Unfortunately, the final moments of the game also contain some of the laziest and worst moments I can remember.

Up until the last half hour or so, the game is a breathtaking rollercoaster ride where the majority of the plot points from the previous two games are tied up skilfully in a satisfying way that connects well with whatever decisions you'd made in the previous games. If you'd saved this alien race, or that scientist's data, or sided with this faction over that faction, it was all remembered, recorded, reacted to, and made the universe seem unique to your own experiences.

The ending though makes little sense, features a badly written Deus Ex Machina ass-pull, and has events with repercussions that seem to render most of what you've achieved in this and previous games pointless. It left me feeling confused, annoyed, and gave me no sense of closure. The much trumpeted "TAKE BACK EARTH" slogan on all the advertising ultimately felt ignored, and the final message players are left with is to "Buy DLC" to continue the commander's adventures.

At that point I realised that though it was a rollercoaster ride, a lot of the previous games intricacies had been stripped away, railroading the player through what boiled down to be a big bunch of fetch quests. (31 quests (out of a total of 68) were fetch quests. Mass Effect 1 had more quests 73, and only 5 of them were fetch quests.)

A good story (until the end) but it doesn't really do justice to the series as a whole, and the all pervading sense of railroading only highlights what's been stripped out of this game.

For:
Fun Combat.
Giant Setpieces.
Great and funny voice acting.
Brilliantly written endings to Geth / Quarian / Krogan storylines.

Against:
No Ship Upgrades
No Mako / Hammerhead Planet exploration.
An important squadmate is held to ransom as Day One DLC.
Terrible ending to the overarching Reaper / Humanity storyline.
Less quests than previous games, and nearly half the quests are fetch quests.
Previous Journalist characters are removed in favour of a Tie-In with IGN.com
No Planet Scanning / Resource Gathering / Hacking minigames. Feels like the game is *only* combat.
Very small number of squadmates (Only 2 if you didn't save everyone in previous games and you don't buy the DLC character)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A sad fan 5 April 2012
Platform for Display:PC|Amazon Verified Purchase
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i feel sad that I've been motivated to write this review. Mass effect 1 & 2 were great games. Mass effect 3 could have been equally outstanding, hence the reason I bought it. The graphics were superb,but like the Hollywood liking for 3D films, great pictures do not make up for a lackluster story. If you look on the web you will find a lot about the ending. I'm not going to comment about that, as I have no wish to spoil anyone's enjoyment. What really bugged me was this game felt soulless. During its previous incarnations, you got involved with the charecters. In this one the looked like catwalk models, but had the depth of a cardboard cutout. It was not utter rubbish, but it could have been so much more.
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Very mixed 16 April 2012
Platform for Display:PC
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Mass Effect 3 is very difficult to review because it hits boths glorious highs and abyssal lows.

The highs:

1. Gameplay is an extremely polished version of ME2s and is extremely fun with a wider variety of enemies and far more tactical scenarios available.
2. RPG elements are back with a far wider ability to customise armour and weapons and the options to trade power cooldowns for more or better guns.
3. Some of the mission sequences are truely awesome (and utterly heartbreaking)
4. Your squads intereacts with each other are funny/touching/heartbreaking and you always want more.

The niggles:

1. Origin is not the world's best system so be prepared to have to various sessions of restarting Origin and/or the machine in order to force the installation to complete. Once in the game I had no problems though so it is irritating rather than critical.
2. There is a bug with importing character faces so if you really attached to your character's face caution is advised.
3. The cutscenes are long, unpausable and unskippable so if (like me) your character's face glitches half way through it can wreck the whole scene.

The lows:

1. The endings are every single bit as bad as everyone says being not just bleak but also illogical and frankly incomprensible. Any attempt to explain them ends up with a wizard did it.
2. I hope you like fighting Cerberus because you will spend most of the game fighting them rather than the Reapers.
3. The 'best' ending is not acheivable in single player so you would either need to play MP or do the iOS app - alternatively just look it up on youtube.
4. The squad is very small so if you don't like a character or like Liara they have very little to say don't expect much interaction with your crew.
5. The autodialogue - choices on conversations is severely reduced in this game which can produce extremely odd effects like my Shepard flirting with one of the new squad despite being the next thing to married.

Conclusion:

As the game currently stands play it, enjoy and switch it off and the end of the final mission because what follows is a series of semi interactive cutscenes that destroy anything you ever cared about in the game franchise.

Alternatively wait for the extended cut DLC coming sometime this summer and see if that solves the problems.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent Game
Now, yes I was disappointed with the ending, so much so that I became a reclusive hermit who survived on flying saucers until I almost succumbed to a hyperglycemic fit. Read more
Published 3 days ago by A. Radford
Unfinished, rushed, and a lousy ending to an otherwise great series
I have very high standards for computer games - most of them I don't play past a few hours as they're a waste of my time. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Mr. Niall Douglas
Solid effort
A highly polished, playable game that will keep you interested to the very end. While interaction with other characters is a bit lacking in places there's plenty to keep you amused... Read more
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The end of an amazing trilogy
I have really enjoyed playing this trilogy, I have played all three games on PC and I regard this as one of my favourite gaming franchises. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Dan2824
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If I had known how good this game was I would have got the first two as well, it's not too late though.
Published 14 days ago by Mick
ME 3 ........ a brief review
Mass Effect 3.......... well what can be said about it ? fully immersable, non stop action. great game. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Taosd
Well that can't have been easy...
I've nothing but fond memories of the first two ME games that can be summed up with a quote from blade runner "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Read more
Published 20 days ago by LovelyMover
No Steam no sale
We have been looking forward to this game. Until the message arrived that the game will not be coming on Steam. Well there are people liking Steam and others do not. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Bombinho
Its ok but somethings missing
On the whole i have enjoyed this game, if you enjoyed mass effect 2 combat then this is pretty much more of the same. Read more
Published 24 days ago by Kaithar
So much potential, such a let down *minor SPOILER alert*
I'm not one for writing reviews but this isnt an ordinary game. Minor glitches are not a big deal. (Dont get to close to Jokers chair)If you played ME1 and ME2, you should buy... Read more
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