[Multi] Mass Effect - Sammelthread

If you've been living in a cave on Pluto, you might not know that Shepard is making his return in trilogy finale Mass Effect 3 this winter, as the Reapers invade Earth and all hell breaks loose. Game Informer has the first proper details on the game in its latest issue complete with ME3 cover, so strap yourself in and beware... Here be spoilers. Stop reading now if you haven't finished Mass Effect 2 and/or the Arrival DLC, and if you don't want the prologue for ME3 spoilerified for you.

Mass Effect 3 will apparently begin with Shepard on trial following the events in Mass Effect 2: Arrival and the Reapers will invade right in the middle of the court proceedings. In the prologue, Shepard escapes to the Normandy and sets to work gathering a party of allies once again, tackling Reaper units - ie. different species of Husk - along the way.

If you haven't played Mass Effect 1&2, Mass Effect 3 will come with an interactive comic that will enable you to make your game-shaping decisions that will affect the plot as usual. Naturally, your ME 1&2 saves will decide who you encounter, so Shepard's party will end up consisting of Garrus, Liara, Ashley/Kaiden and a new guy called Sanders, among others.

Wrex, Mordin, Legion and Anderson are also confirmed to appear in Mass Effect 3 - based on the outcome of Mass Effect 2 during your playthrough - but they may not be squad members. Cerberus is also out to kill Shepard this time around and as such, the gravel-voiced Illusive Man will play a pivotal role in the game. Why Cerberus is after Shepard is currently unknown, however.

With regard to Mass Effect 3's gameplay, apparently BioWare is beefing up the game's RPG aspects, striking a happy medium somewhere between Mass Effect 1 and 2's RPG elements. There will be more freedom with character skills and skill trees will be bigger. Powers will also evolve several times instead of just once, so your characters will have plenty of room for growth.

Weapons will be like Mass Effect 2's, but you'll be able to swap out parts like scopes, barrels, clips and so forth, improving the weapon's performance while changing its aesthetics. Every class will be able to use weapons without limitations, but will have a predetermined number of slots to carry them in. Only the Soldier class can carry unlimited weapons, whereas the Adept, Engineer, Sentinel, Infiltrator and Vanguard will be limited to carrying two or three.

Mass Effect 3 will also have multiple endings - both bad and good - based upon who you have in your squad and the course you take through the game. And finally, Mass Effect 3 will not feature multiplayer, although BioWare is reportedly considering it for possible future spin-offs or separate games.

So, there you have it. That's pretty much all of the details worth knowing from the May issue of Game Informer. Check out the cover below and grab it from newsstands now-ish. Mass Effect 3 is scheduled for release this holiday 2011.

Vorsicht Spoilergefahr!

Mass Effect 3 beginnt während einer Anhörung auf der Erde. Commander Shepard muss sich vor Gericht zu den Vorkommnissen im letzten Mass Effect 2-DLC »The Arrival« äußern, als plötzlich die Reaper angreifen. Shepard muss sich durch Husks verschiedenster Rassen zur Normandy durchkämpfen.

Mögliche Partymitglieder: Liara, Garrus (sofern am Leben), Ashley / Kaidan (je nachdem für wen sich Shepard in Mass Effect 1 entschieden hat), James Sanders (entgegen erster Gerüchte nicht der Soldat aus dem Trailer).

Shepard wird außerdem auf Wrex, Mordin, Legion und Captain Anderson treffen (sofern die Charaktere überlebt haben). Ob diese vier auch Partymitglieder werden können, ist noch nicht bekannt.

Der Cerberus-Chef Illusive Man wird eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Die Organisation Cerberus versucht Shepard in Mass Effect 3 zu töten.

Spieler, die die Vorgänger nicht gespielt haben können Shepards Entscheidungen in Teil 1 und 2 wie in der PlayStation 3-Fassung von Mass Effect 2 innerhalb eines interaktiven Comics festlegen.

BioWare will den Rollenspielaspekt wieder etwas ausbauen. So soll es komplexe Talentbäume geben und Fähigkeiten lassen sich mehrfach und nicht nur einmal steigern. Waffen im Spiel lassen sich durch verschiedene Mods verändern, etwa durch größere Magazine, ein zusätzliches Zielfernrohr etc.

Alle Klassen können alle Waffen verwenden, allerdings nicht mehr in unbegrenzter Anzahl. Nur die Klasse »Soldat« kann so viele Waffen tragen, wie sie will.

Es wird verschiedene Enden (gute und schlechte) geben, je nach Wahl der Begleiter und der getroffenen Entscheidungen.

Mass Effect 3 wird keinen Multiplayer-Modus haben. Es ist nicht auszuschließen dass es einmal ein Mass Effect-Spiel mit Multiplayer geben wird, aber Mass Effect 3 wird es nicht sein.

Klingt gut, offensichtlich keine kastrierte Charentwicklung wie in de D. Age 2.
Wird aber hoffentlich nicht nur auf der Erde spielen.

wah, freu ich mich schon wieder auf Shepard

und ich muss endlich mal Karpyshyns Romane lesen...
Die Sith-Romane von ihm warn ja ganz gut

Fresh details for Mass Effect 3 have emerged on the BioWare forums, courtesy of a Spanish games magazine. One forum member has taken the salient information from the feature in the publication and condensed them into a list of handy bullet points.

There's aspects like new acrobatic action moves for Shepard, such as rolling and jumping, as well as SWAT-style manoeuvres. There will be new enemies with specific weak points to aim for, customisable weapons and more. Some new locations and environments have also been revealed.

This is all according to a translation from the unnamed Spanish magazine of course and we've tweaked the language in the bullet points to make for easier reading, but all the same, perhaps a small pinch of salt might be in order for some of this, just to be on the safe side.

Have a gander at what has been gleaned from the forum post:

-New Cerberus' troops include mechas, assault units and ninja-style shock troops.
-Reapers come in different sizes, ranging from the smaller 500-600 metre ships to the 2km long Herald. That's big.
-New skills for Shepard: apparently he or she will be able to roll, jump and find cover a bit like Max Payne.
-There will be SWAT moves enabling Shepard to turn and strike the enemy with a greater variety of melee attacks. It specifically mentions "a new class: Heavy Melee" who will take advantage of these capabilities of combat.
-More new skills: The Engineer class can build turrets.
Customisable Weapons, guns, sights and so on. Each category will have five variants.
-There will be more items to "loot."
-Space Battles are a possibility, but they're unconfirmed.
-Environments will be larger in scale with people going about their business, ships fighting in the distance and architecture rendered in greater detail. New lighting techniques have been implemented improving the atmosphere and the number of dynamic elements.
-New locations to visit will include New York, London, a moon of either a Quarian or Krogan world, a Salarian world and Mars, among others. Each environment took about 6 months to create, apparently.
-You can inflict dynamic damage upon enemies. The Cerberus mechas, for example, will require hitting a weak point on their glass cockpit to disable them. You'll also be able to cut off the arms, break the head or break various pieces of armour on other enemies.
-Combat is supposedly more dynamic, forcing more frequent movement. The game speed is apparently up by 10-15%.
-Exploration won't include driving vehicles like the Mako or Hammerhead. This doesn't necessarily rule out vehicles completely, but there's no plans or details on vehicles at the moment. There is also a new scanning system, which presumably means that mineral mining could be back again. Yipee!

BioWare hat sich bereits dazu geäußert und hat bekanntgegeben das es NICHT das Ende mit MassEffect 3 für die Serie ist.

"...doch aus einem aktuellen Interview mit Greg Zeschuck von BioWare ging hervor, dass man das Mass Effect-Universum unter keinen Umständen mit dem dritten Teil beenden will. Im Vordergrund steht aber momentan die Entwicklung eines starken und würdigen Nachfolgers zu Mass Effect 2. Die Tatsache, dass die Spieler die Reihe mögen und auch der wirtschaftliche Faktor stimmt, legen ein Weiterleben der Franchise nahe..."

Mass Effect 3 auf Frühjahr 2012 verschoben

Naja mehr Zeit für Skyrim und BF3

Schade.Is mein Most Wanted Game.Aber ich werd's schon verkraften.:)

Gut, dann bleiben mir 4 Monate für Skyrim. Sollte reichen?

hehe
ja... so in etwa

märz 2012

mein Herz blutet!