Mass Effect 3's Co-Op Mode Will Evolved Based on Feedback From Players

The special cooperative mode from Mass Effect 3, called Galaxy at War, will evolve based on the feedback the development team at BioWare will get from actual players, even if it might clash with what the team wants to do, which is to deliver an experience that enriches the single-player campaign.

Previous Mass Effect games delivered just a singular story campaign, even if, as we learned before the weekend, BioWare wanted to put multiplayer modes in both role playing games.

Now, with Mass Effect 3 getting ready to appear next March, the studio finally managed to add an online mode to the experience, in the form of the cooperative Galaxy at War one.

While the experience is set to complement the actual single-player story of Commander Shepard uniting the galaxy against the Reapers by putting players inside the combat boots of various characters that need to fight against waves of enemies to complete objectives, it might evolve into something greater, if players want it to.

Speaking with CVG about the co-op mode, Mass Effect 3 producer Casey Hudson said that even competitive modes like the classic Team Deathmatch of Capture the Flag might be included, although it wouldn't make that much sense in the universe of the game.

"Anything's possible, and we'll see how people react, what they say they want. The issue with PvP stuff, though, is that it really has the least to do with what would make sense about world building, which is what Mass Effect 3 is really about. So it would be the most trivial, tacked on thing that we could do," Hudson said.

"What we wanted to do, first and foremost, is ensure we didn't compromise the size and quality of the single-player experience; that when you're in the multiplayer world you feel as if you're residing in the same universe, in the same story, as Mass Effect 3."

Hudson also admits that he'd like to see a Mass Effect MMO, largely because the universe created for the Mass Effect series is so vast, but declines to actually confirm such a project, so fans should just be content with Mass Effect 3 when it's going to be released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on March 6.