BioWare Social Network has a summary of the first magazine review of
Mass Effect 3, which offers impressions of BioWare's action/RPG sequel. It also offers perspective on how long the game should last, saying the main quest runs for about 15-20 hours, which amounts to about 40 hours of total playtime, saying "side missions are vital to amass enough opposition to the Reaper threat." They also note the game includes about 90 minutes of cutscenes, while also offering impressions of the game that do not involve clock-watching. Thanks
Computer and Video Games. On an interesting side note,
while noting the game's preorders are well ahead of its predecessor's,
MCV also points out that
Destructoid recently put on a green visor to do some accounting to tally up what it would cost to get all the DLC planned for
Mass Effect 3. This results in an eye-popping $869.91 price tag. Part of the reason this ends up so inflated is because some of it is bundled with Razor hardware, though this illustrates the problem the plan presents to a completionist. Finally, if you are in need of some marketing,
Game Informer has a commercial for the game.
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Jerykk wrote on Feb 28, 2012, 01:53:
It's not like Team Fortress 2 where you have to do an insane amount of grinding to get good items without paying. I didn't really have trouble unlocking stuff in TF2 at all. It seemed like I unlocked at least one item in every session. And if I already had that item, I could just disassemble it for parts and craft the items I wanted or just trade for them. I'll take TF2's unlockable system over BF3 or CoD's unlockable systems any day. Well, mostly I meant the pace of unlocks is much quicker than TF2, which I found very slow.
But the mechanics aren't quite like any of those game. You don't have a set track like BF3 or CoD. But you also don't get the same item over and over again as you would in TF2. Aside from consumables, I don't think I've gotten the same item twice. |
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