Mass Effect 3 Has New Game+ Mode, Darker Story

Mass Effect 3 will have a darker story as opposed to the first two titles, while a New Game+ mode will be added to make sure players have a reason to go back through it after completing the single-player campaign.

Mass Effect 3 has been getting a huge amount of details in the last few days, with information from Game Informer's cover story on BioWare's new title slowly trickling out onto the web.

After hearing quite a lot of details about practically everything concerning the game, including its combat or gameplay, Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson shares a few more details about the story and how it will have a darker tone than in the first two games.

Speaking about the overall feel of the story, Hudson said that, "I don't want to say it's hopelessness, but it's that sense of, given the scale of what you're fighting, how can you possibly win? It's going to take so much coordination and so much force."

"Whereas Mass Effect 2 was sort of stylishly dark - cool and slick, this is much more of a full-scale war feel. You don't really have the luxuries, and you don't have the sense that you can for sure win. Deep down, you know that it's going to get ugly and there are things that are going to be lost, even if you win."

Hudson declined to say anything else regarding the story, as BioWare revealed earlier this week that it didn't want to share more details in order to avoid any spoilers.

The BioWare executive did say that a New Game+ mode would be present in Mass Effect 3, which will allow gamers to go through the story once more after completing it.

Such a feature was present in the first Mass Effect, but the second title just dropped the protagonist, Commander Shepard, back onto his or her ship at the end, allowing players to continue finishing side quests or engage in downloadable adventures.

"It's probably going to be a combination of both," Hudson confirmed. "We're going to have a version of the post-game state that you can go back to and finish more stuff, but then we'll have stuff you can loop back around and do in new game+. It's a hybrid of the two."

Mass Effect 3 is set to appear at the end of the year for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.