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The biggest early surprise of Mass Effect 3 is that it gives Commander Shepard, regardless of his genre and past choices, a rather complex and disturbing inner life, which is expressed via a series of dreams involving his past, his present and, of course, the state of the galaxy. The first time the dream sequence is... |
2 April 2012
10:24 GMT |
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I sometimes feel like a bit of a pervert when playing Mass Effect 3, mainly because Commander Shepard seems very much inclined to listen to the conversations of other people on the Citadel, without giving any thought to privacy, and then tends to even act on the information he finds out via the eavesdrop method. I l... |
30 March 2012
10:20 GMT |
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While playing Mass Effect 3, I sometimes felt that the size of the challenge facing the player (saving the galaxy from the Reapers), the resources he could command (depending on choices: whole fleets, races and unique assets) and the enemies he faced (the Reapers and their various indoctrinated allies) were not align... |
28 March 2012
10:28 GMT |
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The Mass Effect series from BioWare might just be the first complete trilogy in the history of video games that knows how to use its own history and make sure that the past is always involved for those gamers who are enjoying its present.
Ever since the first game in the franchise was launched, the development team ... |
17 March 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I am quite about ready to end my first run through Mass Effect 3 and I am very much impressed with what BioWare has managed to deliver in this latest installment of its space-based saga. There are a few missteps, but the overall experience is really impressive, especially when it comes to integrat... |
16 March 2012
17:41 GMT |
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In order to please all types of Mass Effect players, BioWare has now released a new version of its cinematic Take Earth Back trailer for Mass Effect 3, this time starring a female version of Commander Shepard.Mass Effect 3 is now available, in North America, and will be out in Europe on March 9.In order to get fans e... |
6 March 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 is the last game in the trilogy that stars Commander Shepard and seems an unlikely game to focus on major changes, but BioWare believes that one area that has seen major improvement is the morality system. Previous games from the company tended to make choices a little too clear cut, and a lot of gamer... |
2 March 2012
08:08 GMT |
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BioWare has once again talked about next week’s Mass Effect 3 game and how its ending had already being discussed for quite some time, so players shouldn’t worry about their adventures ending suddenly and without an explanation.
Mass Effect 3 is set to end the trilogy of games that starred Commander Shep... |
1 March 2012
04:59 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed, through the voice of its Lead Writer, Mac Walters, that the upcoming Mass Effect 3 will deliver enhanced interactions between the players and the rest of the game’s characters, making them more memorable.
Mass Effect 3 is the end of the trilogy of games that focused on protagonist Comman... |
29 February 2012
10:51 GMT |
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BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has talked about the studio’s massively successful Mass Effect series, highlighting that its video game nature has made its narrative universe much more popular than those seen in movies or books.
The Mass Effect series has delighted millions of fans from all over the world with... |
24 February 2012
17:21 GMT |
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While Mass Effect games allowed people to play as either a male or female protagonist, all promotional efforts, like screenshots or videos, focused on the male version of Commander Shepard.
Ahead of Mass Effect 3's release, BioWare has finally decided to showcase Female Shepard, affectionately dubbed nicknamed ... |
10 February 2012
12:49 GMT |
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Some BioWare fans were disappointed by the relative lack of customization options included in Mass Effect 2, and the developers at the company are keen on making sure they know that the third title in the franchise will offer them all the freedom they need. Speaking to CVG as part of a bigger interview, Michael Gamb... |
8 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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The end of Mass Effect 3 might not be the best one for all players of the game, but one developer working on the action role-playing game suggests that it is worth holding on to the final saves even if future games in the franchise will not use Commander Shepard as the central character.
Mike Gamble, an associate pr... |
6 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Despite having survived the events of the first two Mass Effect games, including some pretty serious trauma generating sequences, the developers at BioWare believe that in the third game in the series the character will show the depth of his character.Speaking as part of the latest installment of the BioWare Pulse pr... |
17 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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After confirming the pre-order bonuses that fans can get by pre-purchasing Mass Effect 3, BioWare has deployed a new batch of screenshots from its role-playing third person shooter.
Mass Effect 3 is Softpedia’s most anticipated game of 2012 and, from the images above and below, you can tell it aims at deliveri... |
6 January 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has offered a new Pulse video about Mass Effect 3, the upcoming mix between action and role playing, showing how players will be able to enjoy more freedom of movement for the main character on the battlefield.The video shows Commander Shepard rolling in order to get into cover or out of ... |
9 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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An early script for Mass Effect 3 was leaked but the developers do not seem to be too worried about the incident and say that long term fans of the franchise should avoid it in order to make sure that they get the full experience when the game is released.Ray Muzyka, who is one of the co-founders of BioWare, told Eur... |
16 November 2011
20:51 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed that the characters that players create for the Galaxy at War game mode, which is cooperative, will never have any influence on the single player campaign, although the results of those engagements will be linked to the overall progress of the campaign.Speaking on the BioWare blog Jess Houston, ... |
8 November 2011
05:49 GMT |
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The fact that the mix between role playing and action game Mass Effect 3 includes multiplayer has been confirmed by the Australian magazine PC Powerplay, which is set to reveal more about the mode in its November issue.For some time rumors have been swirling around the video games industry that one of the biggest inn... |
11 October 2011
02:47 GMT |
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For some time BioWare has talked about their wish to create a movie based on the Mass Effect franchise but until now there have been no clear details about the project and how the production company Legendary Pictures plans to make it appealing to the mainstream audience.Now the team working on the movie, which seems... |
22 September 2011
13:41 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed that, whatever the player does, the leading character of Commander Shepard will no longer appear in other video games even if the universe will be used for future products.
Michael Gamble, who is a community manager at BioWare and a producer working on Mass Effect 3, has told PC Gamer that, &... |
30 August 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has announced that the default version for the female side of Commander Shepard will be redheaded, after fans of the series were allowed to choose which version of the characters they preferred.
The Facebook-powered vote saw the redhead get 19,576 votes, while a black-haired female Com... |
29 August 2011
09:35 GMT |
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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... |
26 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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For the first time in the Mass Effect series, the developer, BioWare, has decided to officially promote and market to the world a female version of the protagonist, Commander Shepard, alongside the already famous male version.
As you can imagine, given the wide customization options the studio gave to players, the... |
31 July 2011
03:41 GMT |
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One of the leading developers working on the upcoming Mass Effect 3 has stated that the team creating the game is cramming as much player choice as possible in the narrative of the game, aiming to allow the gamer to provide an answer to all the problems set up by previous games in the series.
Casey Hudson, who is ... |
26 July 2011
05:38 GMT |
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BioWare has kicked off a special poll on its Facebook page, asking fans to choose how the official female Commander Shepard will look like, offering six different designs that await the votes of the legions of Mass Effect fans.
Mass Effect 3 is set to end the trilogy that focuses on Commander Shepard, placing the ... |
25 July 2011
05:20 GMT |
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BioWare is hard at work on Mass Effect 3, the last piece in the very successful original science fiction series it has created, and it seems that in addition to making sure that the gameplay includes the best bits of the two previous installments the developer is also putting a lot of resources into creating a variet... |
5 July 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 marks the end of the trilogy of games focusing on Commander Shepard, so BioWare, its developer, wants to properly feature the female version of the protagonist, not just the traditional male one.BioWare is one of the few developers that actually lets players choose their genders in its games, but, usual... |
17 June 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 is set to be launched this fall but it seems that the team that handles the successful franchise at developer BioWare is already thinking about life without Commander Shepard, with a MMO one of the possible next steps for the game universe.Speaking with Game Informer, which published a big feature piece... |
11 April 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Ahead of the official launch, BioWare has revealed information about The Arrival downloadable content pack for Mass Effect 2, with the big surprise being that the game will now include stealth elements, with Commander Shepard able to go through entire sections without engaging the enemy.
Jesse Houston, who is the ... |
25 March 2011
06:44 GMT |
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Developer BioWare has confirmed that players who will be picking up the PlayStation 3 edition of Mass Effect 2 will be able to get the choices linked to the first video game in the series via an interactive comic book that is unique to the game.
The comic is called Mass Effect Genesis and the idea is to show gamer... |
17 December 2010
04:46 GMT |
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BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have officially confirmed that they are working on Mass Effect 3, showing a reveal trailer at the Video Games Awards and saying that the game will be released during 2011.Considering that fact that BioWare is already working on Dragon Age 2 and has a f... |
13 December 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is a great gaming experience. It pretty much defines being put down in the strict box of just one genre, it develops a nice cluster of human stories to tell and offers a good overall narrative ark that takes the story of the trilogy forward. And BioWare is also promising more downloadable content to kee... |
13 February 2010
08:41 GMT |
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After finishing Mass Effect 2 for a second time, with the stated aim of actually getting as many members of my party killed as possible, and after getting a bit more time to reflect on the game, one element of the experience appears as a clear setback when compared with the first game in the trilogy: the actual final... |
9 February 2010
17:31 GMT |
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BioWare was quick to show off the fact that the main character of Mass Effect 2, Commander Shepard, might end up dead by the time the player is finished playing him in the new title. But in a world dominated by the save and load mechanic, some fans wondered how the developer could assign significant impact to death g... |
22 January 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is set to be launched on the PC and on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft in late January, the first big videogame release of 2010, but it seems that the people at BioWare who are in charge of the series are already thinking about what they will be doing with the third installment, which will probably be arriv... |
22 December 2009
05:26 GMT |
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With Dragon Age: Origins now released and set to receive another piece of DLC, called Return to Ostagar, in time for Christmas and with The Old Republic probably only coming at some point in 2011, the big marketing effort for BioWare and their publisher, Electronic Arts, is Mass Effect 2, the space based action role ... |
23 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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When Mass Effect was initially released, as the biggest space-based role-playing game in years and with the perspective of a trilogy looming over it, Microsoft labeled it as being an Xbox 360 exclusive.The PC version was out six months later, following the tradition of other BioWare videogames like Star Wars: Knights... |
25 August 2009
17:41 GMT |
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BioWare is planning to do quite a bit of innovation to the concept of the role playing with Mass Effect 2. Most of the choices made in the first title in the trilogy will have a direct effect on the sequel.The combat system and the dialogue mechanics have been refined in order to allow players a wider array of experi... |
30 July 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Ever since Mass Effect 2 was announced as being in development by BioWare, one of the more interesting features unveiled was that the game would be able to take the data out of a save for the first game in the series and reflect the choices the player made in the initial stages of the sequel.With the release dat... |
27 July 2009
16:11 GMT |
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BioWare is keen on spreading the presence of its new franchise, Mass Effect, to as many mediums as possible, so it was no surprise to see that the developer created a game for Apple's iPhone, launched yesterday.It seems that some players have already finished it, proof that it might be too short or that people a... |
24 June 2009
14:51 GMT |
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When Mass Effect was initially released for the Xbox 360, BioWare stated that it planned to release a “constant stream” of downloadable content for the game, expanding the adventures that Commander Shepard and his crew could undertake in the galaxy.After all, the open nature of the game and the possibilit... |
23 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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At E3, a behind the closed doors demo of the upcoming Mass Effect 2 from BioWare showed that Commander Shepard, who is now confirmed as the main playable character for the title, could be killed in the game, meaning that he will not be featured for the main role in Mass Effect 3.BioWare was not ready to share any mor... |
22 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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One of the big stars of E3 that just wrapped up in Los Angeles was BioWare's space-based role playing game, Mass Effect 2, mainly due to its initial trailer, which implied that the star of the first videogame, Commander Shepard, might be dead in this iteration or even one of the antagonists.BioWare has since cla... |
8 June 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Mass Effect was one of 2007's most popular Xbox 360 titles, and, when it was launched for the PC last year, gained an even bigger fan base. That is why when BioWare finally decided to pull the covers off of Mass Effect 2, the interest was very big, as a lot of people wanted to see what would happen next with the... |
26 March 2009
03:58 GMT |
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