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Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Officially announced on December 11, 2010, the game was released March 6, 2012 and marks the final chapter in the Mass Effect trilogy of video games, completing the story of Commander Shepard.
Gameplay in Mass Effect 3 is influenced by decisions made in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, for players who have completed those games. Combat has been changed and refined; in particular, the cover system has been improved, there are more options for moving around the battlefield, instant melee kills and more conventional grenades are introduced as well as improved artificial intelligence. A four player multiplayer co-op mode is also available.
Certain aspects of gameplay in Mass Effect 3 are impacted by choices made in previous games. When starting a new game, players with saved files from Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 are given the option of importing them into Mass Effect 3 to reflect these choices. If a saved file is imported, over 1,000 variables are pulled that help shape how the final chapter is experienced. If there are no saved files available, there is no origin-story comic for new players to help them make quick decisions like there was in Mass Effect 2. Imported characters' appearance and class are changeable, with more features and hair-styles included in the character creator than in Mass Effect 2. Commander Shepard always starts the game with some powers. Upon finishing the game, there is a New Game+ option that allows players to continue playing after the main story ends or start again with their finished Shepard and collect items they missed the first time around. The game has 82 minutes of cut-scenes.
Mass Effect is a series of sci-fi action role-playing video games developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and, from the second installment on, also for the PlayStation 3. The first game in the trilogy centers around a player-created character named Commander Shepard and his/her mission to save the galaxy from a race of mechanical beings known as the Reapers, and its followers, including Saren Arterius. The first game sees Shepard facing Sovereign, a Reaper left as a vanguard, who plans to allow the Reaper fleet currently hibernating in extra-galactic dark space to invade the Milky Way, and destroy all sapient organic life, continuing a mysterious cycle of destruction. The second game takes place two years later, and sees Shepard battling the Collectors, an alien race abducting entire human colonies in a plan to help the Reapers return to the Milky Way. The third and final game centers on the final battle against the Reapers.
Since the beginning, the series has been a major critical success. All three games have received critical acclaim for their storyline, characters, romances, voice acting, choices, tolerance of diversity, and the depth of the galaxy. Video game website GamesRadar called Mass Effect the best new franchise of the generation, saying that the galaxy was so well-constructed that it felt like a decades-old franchise and that it represented "a high-water mark for video games as a story-telling medium."
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Legion: Shepard-Commander, I must go to them. I'm... I'm sorry. It's the only way.::Tali'Zorah vas Normandy: Legion, the answer to your question...::[whether Legion has a soul]::Tali'Zorah vas Normandy: was 'yes'.::Legion: I know, Tali, but thank you. Keelah se'lai.::[Legion dies]
Tali'Zorah vas Normandy: So you're a real living prothean?::Javik: As opposed to a fake dead one?::[silence]::Tali'Zorah vas Normandy: Uh... okay.
Garrus Vakarian: You sure you want to play this game?::Lt. James Vega: What's the matter, Vakarian, you chicken?::Garrus Vakarian: I don't even know what that is - though I've heard everything in the galaxy tastes like it.
Javik: Your "Joker" pilot insists I call myself "Prothy the Prothean." I insisted he allow me to throw him out the airlock.
[regarding traitors]::Javik: In our cycle, we would remove their limbs one by one and offer them a choice: eat their own flesh or starve.
Tali'Zorah vas Normandy: I appreciate what you're doing here, Shepard.::Commander Shepard - Male: Well, I care deeply about the Quarian people.::Tali'Zorah vas Normandy: It's good to be back on the Normandy.::Commander Shepard - Male: Let me know if it's too quiet for you to sleep, and I'll find you someplace louder.::Tali'Zorah vas Normandy: Hmmm...::Javik: I don't understand.::EDI: Shepard and Tali became physically intimate during their fight against the Reapers.::Javik: Mating between species? A pointless exercise.::Commander Shepard - Male: Thank you, EDI.
Urdnot Wrex: Tuchanka may be a pile of radioactive rubble, but its *our* pile, and we'll fight to the last krogan to keep it that way?::Dr. Liara T'Soni: That's what I always liked about you, Wrex.::Urdnot Wrex: My smoldering good looks?
Reaper: Shepard...::Commander Shepard - Female: You know who I am?::Reaper: Harbinger speaks of you. You resist, but you will fail. The cycle must continue.::Commander Shepard - Female: What are you talking about? We stopped Sovereign and the Geth. We stopped Harbinger and the Collectors. We've earned a straight answer!::Reaper: It is not a thing you can comprehend.::Commander Shepard - Female: We might surprise you.::Reaper: You represent chaos, we represent order. Every organic civilization must be harvested in order to bring order to the chaos. It is inevitable. Without our intervention, organics are doomed. We are your salvation.::Commander Shepard - Female: You're killing everyone in the galaxy in order to save us?::Reaper: The cycle must continue. There is no alternative.::Commander Shepard - Female: Organics and synthetics don't have to destroy each other!::Reaper: The Battle for Rannoch disproves your assertion. Finish your war - we will be waiting. [shuts down and dies]
Mordin Solus: Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Garrus Vakarian: Forgive the insubordination, but your boyfriend has an order for you... come back alive.