Mass Effect 3

                So today, I figured I would tell everyone a little more about my topic for project 1. Maybe it will help me with the paper portion of the assignment. Here’s what I ended up with.

                Mass Effect 1, released in 2007, promised to be the beginning of a very interesting trilogy. Interesting for pretty much one reason; the choices you make will not only directly impact what happens in this game, but the second as well. Then your choices for both one and two will accumulate for the third and final installment, making each game truly unique to the gamers. It was an interesting concept but no one really knew how they were going to pull it off. Creating an interactive story had been tried before, but never on this scale, and never came out to be very good. Felt like a first person shooter dressed up in a costume for Halloween. Mass Effect however, has come through with flying colors, creating deep characters that you really miss when they die, and who many would actually die for (which is, in a round about way, an option on Mass Effect 2. Yes, you can DIE before you even get to the conclusion of the series, and it still flows together without a hitch). Another thing is the designers actually sat down and created culture, a history, and previous confrontations in the galactic species long before your character was even born, which is fairly important, especially in the third game. You are introduced to a species that has been systematically wiping out all intelligent life for several million years. You figure this out slowly through the first game, culminating in a battle between you and one of these giant machines that is here to signal the others that it’s time for another harvest. Long story short, you blow him up in a fairly epic battle and the aliens are stopped. WOOT! Then it turns out they’re not but no one else will believe you and here’s where we spill into the second game. In this one, you spend the game hunting some of the servants of the machines, all the while knowing that a galactic fleet of these things is coming. Enter the third game. They are here, earth is all but conquered, humanity can’t stand on its own against this onslaught, and no one is coming to help. You escape earth and go to unite the races that you have been interacting with, for better or worse, through the entire series. The developers made one point very clear however. You will stand together, or you will fall alone. Mass Effect 3 comes out March 6^th, 2012. I hope some of you at least, will give it a try.

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