Mass Effect 3 release date

By Martin Robinson Published 6 June, 2011

Save Earth on March 6th 2012

Mass Effect 3, the conclusive episode of EA and BioWare's epic sci-fi trilogy, will be releasing on March 6th 2012.

The news came at EA's conference at this year's E3, with Casey Hudson showing a new, more involved combat system for the game. Shepard had an all-new melee attack, while the shooting seemed more refined.

The demo climaxed with an on-rails shooter section, with Shepard taking on a giant Reaper.

Expect to read more about Mass Effect 3 later this week.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 12 months ago

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  • Haunted_Tree #1 12 months ago

    March seems so far away ...

  • Ror1984 #2 12 months ago

    Oooh that Reaper battle looked so very good. And Casey Hudson now looks much less like Sylar.

  • metalangel #3 12 months ago

    PS3-style collected edition for 360, please. Or don't.

  • Mr.Spo #4 12 months ago

    Trailer, please. :)

  • LazyNinjaUk #5 12 months ago

    This has to be the first game ever that I've wanted, that comes out on my birthday.

    So while I'm recovering from far to many Yager bombs and pints of Guiness during the most hideous hangover of my life, I can attempt to negotiate complex intertwining storylines, navigate Mass relays,bark orders at that weird lizard looking dude that sounds like Michael Clarke Duncan using my Kinect and try and pork Miranda again.

    HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY!!

  • timur #6 12 months ago

    I'm looking forward to this but: The demo climaxed with an on-rails shooter section

    Really?

  • icematt12 #7 12 months ago

    timur - yes. Spoiler free from me but as a long time ME fan it felt awesome.

    March is good. I can buy the games released for Xmas time I want (list is longer after today) and then a chance to save up for the uber expensive edition of ME3. From my perspective, win for everyone.

  • The-Bodybuilder #8 12 months ago

    Bloody hell, what I felt was merely a few months away is now almost a year away. O_O

  • The12thMonkey #9 12 months ago

    My various flavours of Male and Female Shepard are raring to go and have at some dastardly dastards. And, I didn't think Casey Hudson looked like Sylar... but if I didn't know that I didn't go to school with someone called Casey, I'd think that I knew him from school....

  • Dr.Frappers #10 12 months ago

    God bless Bioware for releasing it on my birthday. Reading this release date made me feel warm and fuzzy -I just needed to share it with someone.
    Thank you.

    @LazyNinjaUk - just read your post - lol
    Edited by Dr.Frappers at 06/06/11 @ 22:32

  • paulf #11 12 months ago

    grats to LazyNinja and DrFrappers - you get this on your birthday, I get Modern Warfare 3 on mine, I think you win
    Edited by paulf at 06/06/11 @ 23:01

  • rob_of_the_robots #12 12 months ago

    6th March is a Tuesday so may well be the US release date, making the UK release date Friday 9th. If I pre-order it, it could arrive a day earlier on the 8th March, my birthday. Win!