BioWare The Best Effect Ever
After interminable hinting, BioWare has finally taken the wraps off of the last chapter in Commander Shepard’s epic science fiction roleplaying trilogy. A teaser trailer shows a nameless human sniper defending civilians from alien attackers from his perch in a damaged Big Ben clocktower; then the camera pulls back to reveal a full-scale Reaper attack on Earth, with multiple sentient spaceships landing and deploying ground forces to invade the ruined cities.
Shepard isn’t there, though—he/she has been dispatched into the galaxy to assemble an alliance of alien races to help Earth repel the invasion before it’s too late. No gameplay has been shown and no details have been confirmed, but rumor has it that the third Mass Effect will include some form of multiplayer mode.
Whether that will be a co-op mode for the campaign (potentially employing multiplayer quest design from BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic), a separate team-based shooter acting out the battle for Earth while Shepard is away or nothing at all remains to be seen. Mass Effect 3 is promised for Holiday season 2011, so it won’t be long before all questions are answered.
Shepard isn’t there, though—he/she has been dispatched into the galaxy to assemble an alliance of alien races to help Earth repel the invasion before it’s too late. No gameplay has been shown and no details have been confirmed, but rumor has it that the third Mass Effect will include some form of multiplayer mode.
Whether that will be a co-op mode for the campaign (potentially employing multiplayer quest design from BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic), a separate team-based shooter acting out the battle for Earth while Shepard is away or nothing at all remains to be seen. Mass Effect 3 is promised for Holiday season 2011, so it won’t be long before all questions are answered.
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