Mass Effect 3 combat gameplay

Published 16 August, 2011 Duration 1:49

BioWare begins the fight for Earth.

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  • Collymilad #1 9 months ago

    Looks awesome.

  • hiddenranbir #2 9 months ago

    lol

  • wogsy81 #3 9 months ago

    Yes yes and yes.....
    Looks bloody fantastic. Yes it looks the same as ME2 but with advanced melle moves and a lot more chatter between the squad. But ME2 is my fave game this gen for sure. Ive completed it 3 times so that says something.

    /polishes Insanity achievment

    I genuinely cant wait to get stuck into this game. What an epic series.
    I think the fact that you carry your Shepard with you for the 3 games adds such a huge emotional attachment that elevates this series from great to outstanding.

    Come launch day i will actually be a little bit giddy (yes, im a sad bastard) with the thought of hooking up with Shepard and the Normandy crew again.
    Me, Jack and Grunt are gonna lay a epic beatdown on some poor bastards.

    I will be there launch day money in hand ready to "finish the fight"

  • Yossarian #4 9 months ago

    The Bioware RPG
    1998-2010
    R.I.P.

  • Inmediasress #5 9 months ago

    Kind of meh but will see and also didn't we already see combat gameplay??
    I would like to see something of that highly promised RPG goodnes that they seem so bent on hiding behind all this combat gameplay.
    Besides aren't there enough shooters out there already?

  • jonbwfc #6 9 months ago

    That's.. a bit... American, isn't it... Do they high-five at the end?

  • Hindle #7 9 months ago

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  • Inmediasress #8 9 months ago

    @jonbwfc
    Well if you haven't noticed the whole ME series is rather heavily american focused with a gung-ho hero who somehow always irritates me with that badass attitude out of a bad B category action flick.

  • yoomazir #9 9 months ago

    @Inmediasress
    not the whole ME serie, that tendency started with the second game, this is what happens when the lead writer of the first ME game went to work on that Bioware Star Wars mmorpg...
    Edited by yoomazir at 16/08/11 @ 18:36

  • Invisible_Cow #10 9 months ago

    eeeh. This ever-increasing focus on combat is disappointing, to say the least.

  • Mind_Open #11 9 months ago

    Well.....i love mass effect but i think this trailer was awfull, am i mad? It is still an RPG or....?

  • Phoenisis #12 9 months ago

    I must say, Eurogamer are being extremely generous by calling that video "gameplay". It's in-engine, probably, but that's about the only similarity that trailer will have with actually playing the game.

    I loved ME1 and to a slightly lesser extent ME2, but everything I've seen of ME3 so far looks rather bland and generic. Just another Bald Space Marine Shooter. I miss the days where Bioware made RPGs.
    Edited by Phoenisis at 16/08/11 @ 17:16

  • Wempler #13 9 months ago

    It sort of indicated the wave-based fights, similar to Dragon Age II (a very, very bad thing..). But then again. ME 1 and 2 never were very awesome when it came to gunplay.

    (and story... but that's just my opinion).
    Edited by Wempler at 16/08/11 @ 17:25

  • Inmediasress #14 9 months ago

    @yoomazir
    You know what I kind of agree.
    This was the perfect opportunity to make a great character and portray his personality and how it changes based on your choices trough 3 games now it's kind of ruined.

  • metallicorphan #15 9 months ago

    I am hoping they will get rid of those lame 'end of mission' screens we saw in ME2,but i am not confident

  • Nevflinn #16 9 months ago

    I wish the cover doodads weren't so obviously placed for the sake of cover. It's painfully obvious design, and breaks any pretension that the level is designed for anything other than chest-high walls. Here's hoping that biotics are useful this game, instead of being useless on anything that isn't naked - that'd hugely help to ME's gameplay feeling unique.

    I'm not a fan of stat-crunching (I autolevelled nearly everything in ME1), but even with ME1's repetitive warehouses in side-missions the game was more convincing than this. I'm sure I'll love ME3's writing, but the game is starting to rub me as a Gears Of War clone.

    Garrus is such a bro, though.
    Edited by Nevflinn at 16/08/11 @ 17:30

  • Collymilad #17 9 months ago

    I weep for Biowares clunky old RPG's.

    Oh wait, I don't, because Mass Effect kicks fucking ass RPG or not!!

  • fragglerocks #18 9 months ago

    It does say combat gameplay peoples, so don't bemoan the death of the Bioware RPG quite yet.
    The combat in ME1 was not great, ME2 good, so let's hope the combat in ME3 will be great! WHILE keeping the story, decisions & RPG elements strong(er).

  • agparrot #19 9 months ago

    It seems as if the weapons are getting more and more primitive with every iteration. What next - Mass Effect IV, with catapults?

  • Death-Jester #20 9 months ago

    @agparrot
    Here here! ME1 had semi-random weapon drops, ME2 you only found weapons when they let you, so I fully expect ME3 to not have any weapons bar the ones you are given at the beginning of the game.

  • dr_faulk #21 9 months ago

    Right, so... same as before.

  • Softie2k #22 9 months ago

    Mass Effect 2.1 then.

  • dustrat #23 9 months ago

    Combat isn't everything. I'm sure this is gonna be an awesome game.

  • Porunga #24 9 months ago

    Wohoo! Gears of war style barrel roll FTW!
    If they make the combat intense like this AND bring back more rpg elements I will never stop playing this.....

  • X3Entente #25 9 months ago

    moar liek PASS effect amirite guiz

  • yoomazir #26 9 months ago

    wow, can't believe my previous post got thumbs uped, usually it's more like :" BURN INFIDEL, ME2 IZ TEH MOST EPIK GAEM EV3R, STORY IS OSCAR MATERIAL!!!!"

  • Machiavellian #27 9 months ago

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    wow, can't believe my previous post got thumbs uped, usually it's more like :" BURN INFIDEL, ME2 IZ TEH MOST EPIK GAEM EV3R, STORY IS OSCAR MATERIAL!!!!"

    Maybe not but it seems that all I ever read is moaning. Gamers moan about a game that doesn't change it formula, then they moan when the game does change, then they moan because what they believe would be a great change doesn't happen. It seems like no one ever just play a game to have fun but instead moan about everything the game is not. Gamers are a sorry lot, since they appear to not be happy unless they are moaning about something.

  • X3Entente #28 9 months ago

    The thing that i find funny about this recent backlash against bioware and mass effect 3 is that its taken this long. The entire premise of mass effect is inherently ridiculous (as well as cliched and derivative). Are we suppossed to find it plausbile that commander shepherd who is a mere human individual could save the universe each game, like some kind a messianic individual. And the reapers are supposed to be like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, yet one of them got defeated in me2 by shepherd and a plasma pistol, wow gg reapers. Conventional logic would therefore suggest that alliance warships should have no problem defeating the reapers since they cant even beat shepherd 1 on 1. But no, only shepherd can stop them for some reason. Pathetic
    Edited by X3Entente at 16/08/11 @ 19:16

  • kingnothing12 #29 9 months ago

    I'm suprised there is this much of a backlash at all to be honest, i'm sure i remember ME2 winning awards here for best game of the year voted by...you lot??

    Garrus is a badass though, i'd rather play as him the whole way through, screw Shepard.

  • dr_faulk #30 9 months ago

    "The entire premise of mass effect is inherently ridiculous (as well as cliched and derivative). Are we suppossed to find it plausbile that commander shepherd who is a mere human individual could save the universe each game, like some kind a messianic individual. And the reapers are supposed to be like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, yet one of them got defeated in me2 by shepherd and a plasma pistol, wow gg reapers. Conventional logic would therefore suggest that alliance warships should have no problem defeating the reapers since they cant even beat shepherd 1 on 1. But no, only shepherd can stop them for some reason. Pathetic "

    Very clever indeed.

  • Phoenisis #31 9 months ago

    Honestly, even setting aside my distaste for the direction in which the RPG genre in general and Bioware in particular is going, and looking at this as if ME3 was a pure shooter with no history of once being an RPG, that trailer in TERRIBLE. The constant "cinematic" cuts in what is supposed to be gameplay, the poor looking and overly fast animations, the inane voice chatter that I guess is supposed to make it appear "tactical", and so on.
    If I wasn't so disappointed I think I would find the trailer (unintentionally) hilarious. I still maintain a tiny shred of hope that maybe it's just inept marketing again, like with the "this is new shit!" DA:o campaign, but it doesn't seem likely, does it?

  • Hantheman #32 9 months ago

    Fuck it, I'm gonna go play Baldur's Gate and remember what a real RPG is.

  • Nevflinn #33 9 months ago

    "The entire premise of mass effect is inherently ridiculous (as well as cliched and derivative). Are we suppossed to find it plausbile that commander shepherd who is a mere human individual could save the universe each game, like some kind a messianic individual. And the reapers are supposed to be like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, yet one of them got defeated in me2 by shepherd and a plasma pistol, wow gg reapers. Conventional logic would therefore suggest that alliance warships should have no problem defeating the reapers since they cant even beat shepherd 1 on 1. But no, only shepherd can stop them for some reason. Pathetic "

    I agree, X3Entente, but this same logic is also the reason I regarded the original Mass Effect so highly. In that game, yes, Shepard was instrumental to the plot and saving the galaxy - but not because he was just 'special'. The game constantly emphasised his background and his past experiences, and he was never considered a one-man army (his biggest feats were either on the scale of one man, or he was indeed working with an army like Virmire). He was also cast as a soldier for a proactive government (the Alliance and then later the Council) - thus, it was often more about the people he served than he himself. Shepard was simply the right man for the job, and at the right time.

    Then came Mass Effect 2, and he was hyped to hell and back as The One despite being completely unnecessary for the plot.
    :(
    Edited by Nevflinn at 17/08/11 @ 01:00

  • Triggerhappytel #34 9 months ago

    Is this the campaign or that alleged Horde mode which was rumoured?

    Bagsy Garrus!

  • Wyrm #35 9 months ago

    Amazing to see all the whining about a focus on combat. It's a COMBAT TRAILER. There is hardly going to be extensive details on the conversation system and research trees.