A geek, gamer and programmer from Israel. I'm primarily a PC gamer with a few PS3 games. I usually post gaming-related content, music and my own thoughts on plenty of things.
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Gave the Mass Effect 3 demo a shot yesterday, and all the hype for ME3 I didn’t really get to this point suddenly flooded me. Combat is just the same, but the environments, soundtrack & story featured in the demo was top notch. BioWare are very good at integrating stories into their games tightly. Plus, I noticed some slightly non-linear character progression in the third game, which is a good thing compared to the abysmal character linearity in ME2. I’ve yet to try any of the power-focused classes to see if they fixed the over-reliance they had in ME2 (I played as Infiltrator), but so far I like what I’m seeing.
Honestly, I used to not like Mass Effect that much anymore because ME2 didn’t have any of the familiar RPG elements ME1 had — character progression was linear and barely had room for choice (two Infiltrators were nearly alike no matter what you picked), weapons were very much alike apart from visuals (and the differences they DID have weren’t outlined cleanly and were “brushed aside”) and the game entirely felt like a shooter with a couple RPG elements attached.
However, ME3 already fixed much of that with weapon customisation and some choice in character stats & abilities progression. I like it a whole lot more than I did before, and now I’m tempted to get it. Though, I’m really not looking forward to learning to live with Origin.
I took tens of screenshots as I played the demo and uploaded about 36 of them. You can see them all here. (They are all spoiler-free! Unless you don’t know the starting point of Mass Effect 3 or the end of Mass Effect 2 at all, in which case these MAY be spoilers to you. Nevertheless, no dialogue appears in any of them.)
