Husks will, as they always have done, storm towards you en masse, and new enemies, such as the large, powerful brutes, will charge at you, blasting you out of cover whilst its allies pepper you with fire. Mass Effect 3, on the other hand, does away with this, and now enemies are far more bullish, often running you down and forcing you to adapt and move to alternative cover. Because of this, even in some of the more difficult fights, you could hunker down behind cover and stick out most battles in relative safety, barring a couple of boss battles. Enemies were, for the most part, content to sit back, find cover and swap projectiles with you from a distance. In the previous two ME games, combat was enjoyable (much more so in ME2, of course), but was quite sedate compared to most other cover-shooters. The most apparent change I found in my play through was the shift to a more hectic and mobile battleground. And, after a harrowing escape, and a sight that will remain lodged in Shepard’s mind, he (or she) and the Normandy head off to the Citadel to appeal for help defending Earth. Now, the Reapers have turned up to devour all life in the galaxy, and they’re hungry.Ī short tutorial sequence, which takes place in the midst of the invasion, suitably opens the conclusion, and quickly demonstrates a few new additions to the game, such as the new melee power attack and cover-based stealth kills. Humanity is in a seriously dire predicament, having ignored Shepard’s warnings of the imminent threat, even to the point of kicking him out of the military, and the future is very bleak indeed.
Picking up a short time after the events of Mass Effect 2, ME3 begins right in the thick of it, and the Reaper attack on Earth frames the third outing’s story, and gives the developers a chance to paint an emotional picture. So, now that the final instalment in Commander Shepard’s trilogy is here, has BioWare managed to do the saga justice? Or, is this a series that’s doomed to exit stage left with an ill-placed step? The Mass Effect series has, so far, been a bit of a critical luvvy, and the sci-fi space opera RPG has quickly risen above the competition to become one of the most successful and critically acclaimed titles of its ilk ever released.
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