14 DAY TRIAL // BioWare has been quite courageous in allowing players to kill main character Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 2 and now it seems that the company is taking the concept of failure one step forward and allowing players to utterly fail in their main quest in Mass Effect 3.
When asked directly by NowGamer if there's a scenario being planned by the developers where Commander Shepard fails to stop the Reapers and Earth is doomed Mike Gamble, who is the community manager working at BioWare, has simply said “Yes”.
Mass Effect 3 will tell the story of how Earth itself is under assault by the Reapers, the giant mechanical life forms that seems bent on destroying all the organics based life in the universe.
Commander Shepard, the hero of humanity, is sent out in the galaxy and needs to recruit the various alien races and convince them that the only chance to stopping the assault of the Reapers of Earth is the only chance they have to stall their advance and save life.
BioWare has said that at the end of the game, the level of success for each player will depend on how united the races of the galaxy are when facing the Reapers.
Decisions that players have made in the first and the second game in the series, from how they dealt with the certain last member of a species and how they solved a conflict with another example of anorganic life, will come into play in Mass Effect 3.
The developers at BioWare are saying that the game will offer a large number of significant choices that can lead to surprising conclusions and will add to the replayability of the experience.
Mass Effect 3 was initially set to arrive during this fall but has been pushed back to March 2012 and will appear on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC.