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Mass Effect 3 Gamescom Trailer Analysis

Posted on Tuesday, August 16 @ 10:09:30 Eastern by


The "Squad Leader" Gamescom trailer for Mass Effect 3 is only a minute and forty seconds long, but it contains a wealth of information about what it calls "Combat Reveal Part 1". Commander Shepard leads a squad of three, with Garrus and who I am fairly confident is Liara (unless it's Samara in a lab coat), against a group of Cerberus soldiers (again probably indoctrinated) and one badass Atlas heavy mech that interrupts their fun by falling from the sky like a comet.

From the very moment Shepard enters the narrow, dirty alleyway, you will notice that his sprint speed has increased. You can still assign cover to your squadmates and go into cover yourself behind conveniently placed and conveniently indestructible crates. Shepard can vault over crates as he has before, but it's not certain whether Shepard strangely needs to crouch behind cover before he can vault over it.

Shepard has access to a chilling Sub-Zero projectile blast that Garrus can exploit with a well-honed sniper shot to a frozen opponent, as well as a secondary heavy weapon that seems to have homing, perhaps heat-seeking ammunition. With a quick roll to the side, he discovers a Cerberus officer attempting to find cover and whips out his new omni-blade for a melee death strike of fire that is far more effective than punching an awkward number of times.

The Atlas heavy mech, as usual, has ridiculous health and shields, and a wide arsenal of missiles and short-range one-kill death shots. But with enough overloading and grenade abilities, it can be worn down until it gets blasted into smithereens.

I still wish that Shepard could lead more than two squadmates or that there are more team-based missions like the finale in ME2. (I mean, what are they doing on the Normandy that's so important?) There's also a minor but significant change in how Liara uses her singularity power, which from the looks of it, forms at a point in space rather than through a projectile blast. Hopefully, this means that biotic abilities don't get blocked by some dumbass box that gets in the way of a miniature black hole.

But from what can be gathered from the trailer, Mass Effect 3 looks to have an improved combat system that doesn't change too much of the core system already in place from Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 3 looks well on its way for its worldwide release on March 6th, 2012.

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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
    Great video, but do you think that EA will make us use Origin for this game? Battlefield 3 you gotta have Origin. What will they do with Mass Effect 3?
  • Nick_Tan
    Nick_Tan

    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
    I'm sure they're going to have a special deal through Origin for ME3. Maybe an extra costume. Hopefully it would be any more invasive than that.
  • Wedgington
    Wedgington

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Aug 17th, 2011 at 12:59 am
    In complete agreement regarding the team missions, It always frustrates me when a game gives you a large team but then only lets you take 2 people with you, if you're gonna put big teams in balance the gameplay so that I can take say 2/3rds of them with me (to keep the tactical switching angle), Sometimes I wish every game was Baldurs Gate

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