Uhhhh........back to a more game related issue.

Drew Karpyshyn is GONE everybody, he's packing up his typewriter and calling it quits at Bioware. So the creative force behind so many games we've played, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Never Winter, Mass Effect and TOR is leaving the building.I don't want to think about who might replace him, what with such talentless writers like Mac Walters and Jennifer Hepler waiting in the wings.

This is unwatchable on ps3 (opening scene on demo when there all walking around and shit) its almost like its running at 15 frames a second or less...
i will be buying it for 360 because of previous 2 and save files, but i am worrired if its THIS shit on xbox?
My xbox is not handy to me right now :(

Nope ran fine for me on my 360.

friend said this game is even more user friendly/easier than ever before...? aka even less challenging

Nope its around same as ME1/2 although the devs state that playing the full game will be much more challenging than ME2.

After I read this I decided to download it to my PS3 just to see what you are talking about, and yes, it does seem to run better on the Xbox 360. I wouldn't worry about it though, this demo has been edited heavily, including the opening scene. This isn't even the demo that was leaked a couple of months ago, but it's in better shape than that one.

Hopefully the technical issues will be worked out, or else PS3 gamers will be waiting for a patch.

Tired it. The co-op is really addictive. It's way better than I thought. TBH I was expecting shite..

Single player intro was big fat mehh. Talk about making the first two games feel pointless. Now I haven't kept up with the story since the end of the second game (didn't play any of the DLCs), so if it has been explained in some iphone game or comic or novel can someone inform me as to why the kick ass hero of the universe is no longer a spectre and has been retired from the military!?!

ta :)

Well I hate to have to admit it but it looks like Mass Effect 3's multiplayer demo is a great deal more enjoyable than I could have ever imagined.

Because you have to start at the very beginning, the slow climb upwards can be a bit frustrating, but the more time you invest in it, the more ADDICTIVE it becomes. As each character class opens up, you experience gameplay from a totally different perspective. I started as Human Engineer, but soon other character classes opened up. Drell, Quarian and my personal favorite......the Krogan. Let me tell you, there's nothing like tearing up the damn field with your Krogan, charging towards enemies like a damn freight train. I don't know if was a glitch, but I hit a Cerberus trooper and knocked him clear across the field and out of view. Lmao!

The sense of community among Mass Effect gamers is unlike anything I've recently experienced on Xbox Live. lol! People HELPING each other, aiding one another, indeed GETTING ALONG together. And the cross chatter is so cool! For example, there's this one enemy that comes on the field that everyone absolutely loves and dreads at the same time. When you hear the words "PHANTOM!" There's almost a collective, "Oh Shit!" from everyone over their headsets.

The Phantom is female-ninja enemy who strikes with a sword with insta-kills. Because this enemy is like a boss that can take out everyone with a few swings or stabs, cooperation is required in order to take her down. Her arrival induces panic and laughter. There's nothing funnier than watching a Salarian and a Krogan (I know they're supposed to be mortal enemies) huddling together like children, trying to figure out what the fuck they should do. LOL! When the Phantom(s) goes down there's an audible sigh of relief from all players.

As you progress and open up new classes, skills sets and weapons, you have to almost gauge the clock or else time will just start running completely away from you. As I said before, it's highly addictive once you start investing yourself into it.

So Bioware actually scored with the multiplayer demo and sucked with single player demo. Who would have thunk it?

Yeah i also was very surprised buy the MP demo, and now cant wait to play the full MP on release, after i finnish the SP of course :)

I have been playing the MP for hours, I love it!

I have a hard time deciding which class to go with, I am constantly swapping between Soldier and Engineer.

Soldier has the grenades and the Concussive shot as Human Male, and Male Human Engineer has that nice fire thingy that locks on, and the orb thing that keeps stunning (though quite weak).

I honestly think this game MP is pure garbage, I played for like an hour and it was really bad.

The multiplayer is going to have some cooperative tie-ins to the single player campaign. You don't have to play them, BUT completing MP missions will give you more "assets" against the Reapers in the SP campaign.If you continue to upgrade it then it will eventually fire rockets with HIGH damage, capable of taking out enemies with a two to three hits. It's an excellent crowd control device, takes out those pesky (but dangerous) turrets.

What you really need to see in action is a Salarian, that class is UNSTOPPABLE. I haven't unlocked it yet, but someone I was playing with had this class and he decimated the entire field.

Yeah i also really enjoyed the MP, very Gears Horde-like. I did also hear that even if you dont do the MP side before the SP you can still get all the war assets needed for a great outcome.

I saw a Krogan player do that, crazy stuff.

IMO the only class that got stuck to impress me is the Engineer.
I love using the Droid to span it behind them and keep them busy while the rest of us gets a few seconds of breather to take them out quickly, especially if you manage to get the shielded bastards to turn back.

I really like this, very addictive IMO.

NOTHING on single player should be affected by whether you play the MP or not. If there's such a thing, I'll be really pissed off.

In case some of you haven't heard GAME and Gamestation will not be selling Mass Effect 3 in-store or online. EA have made the N7 edition available to other retailers.

http://www.ea.com/uk/1/mass-effect-3-update


Eurogamer has an article detailing how GAME intends to compensate those affected:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-29-game-...

i hope game are going under, justice for murdering the independents... ruined all the shops in my are, they could not compete and as soon as they all went under games prices raised.

i was considering ordering that

then i saw the price

then i saw the content...

aside from MUCH better box art its shit.

While I don't want to see people out of jobs yeah GAME have done this everywhere, when they first arrive they say they will price match any local stores and this combined with the deals that they can produce sometime puts small fry competitors out of business. Then price hikes and crappy deals start being spewed everywhere because they know they can. AND THEN after all that they complain when online retailers do better than them and threaten to boycott publishers products if they don't get a good deal.

People in GAME stores I can't speak for but their management's work ethics are weak as ever.

^^ Yeah i dont like people losing jobs, but i hate GAME and GameStation

GS used to be ok (retro games galore) until they got bought by game, its shit now.

New Launch Trailer - http://kotaku.com/5889980/mass-effect-3s-launch-tr...

Just give me the Fracking game!!

Awesome trailer!

Love it!!!

If you haven't been playing the multiplayer all this time, you should have been. Bioware is going to allow us to import all of our demo MP Characters into the single player campaign so you wouldn't have to start all over again once you actually begin playing ME3.

Talk about a head fake! And it looks like the multiplayer will loom larger than any of us could have expected. The multiplayer doesn't just factor in as additional war assets, but ALSO contributes to your war "readiness" The war readiness factor is JUST AS important as assets because assets have a factor that decays the longer you drag your SP campaign experience out. So while you can take all the time you want, there's a penalty given for taking too long. So theses characters and class types that you've unlocked are important, they are now actually contributing to your efforts against the Reapers and keeping your war asset values HIGH. It's also important to note that when Hackett starts sending in co-op missions, these characters you've been grooming for battle are the ones that are going to carry them out.

If you haven't been playing, then it's my suggestion that you take your time and not plow through the SP campaign without building your characters and their strengths up first. My rating is N7 120, so I'm pretty high.

I dont get it lol

So the MP character class level can be imported from the MP demo to SP? Pretty nice.

I dont understand the penalty thingy though :(