Mass Effect 3, Kingdoms of Amalur cross-promotion trailer

Published 13 January, 2012 Duration 0:36

Footage of the demo unlocks in action.

Related games
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Mass Effect 3

Comments (23) Latest comment 4 months ago

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  • AMagicalCone #1 4 months ago

    Anything that gives you free extra content in games is a great idea as far as I'm concerned!

  • menage #2 4 months ago

    Yep, don't see anything wrong with this. I'll probably buy both anyway.

  • Inmediasress #3 4 months ago

    Post deleted at 08:57:21 13-01-2012

  • telboy007 #4 4 months ago

    Much better idea than all that pre-order bollards that goes on. One of those armour sets makes them look like a crazy-ass speedball player. :D
    Edited by telboy007 at 13/01/12 @ 08:53

  • menage #5 4 months ago

    Pfff. If that breaks your immersion I guess you're really distracted very easely. It's not like they'r reality based games or something. I'm buying weapons from a floating piece of telepathic slime here. But this iron armor has got to go dammit.

    You could also, like , NOT wear it.

  • Ternon #6 4 months ago

    Oh no. Shepard still has that weird, stiff running animation. This is a bad omen.
    Especially considering animation quality has been decreasing since ME1.

    Bioware is really letting themselves go...
    Edited by Ternon at 13/01/12 @ 09:21

  • Lionheart #7 4 months ago

    Please don't introduce too much of this hack and slash melee. PLEASE!

  • Ternon #8 4 months ago

    LOL, people downgrading my comment because I stated the obvious, Shepard's running animation is horrible, far worse than in ME2.

    You might wanna go to Bioware forums and tell them so instead...

  • Bradach #9 4 months ago

    I like that they're linking the two marketing campaigns. It can only be good for KoA and does no harm to ME3. Being a new IP I hope KoA does well. I'll be getting both eventually, probably during the summer drought.

  • Naster #10 4 months ago

    I find these kinds of things a bit annoying personally. I don't want to waste time playing the demos when I already know I'm going to buy both games. Also I think there's a danger they could hurt game balance to some degree, making the beginnings of the games too easy for those who have the items or too hard for those who don't. And finally they often don't make much lore sense, and can thus hurt the games' verisimilitude.

    But I guess they do make business sense, so I think I'll just ignore these and be happy if these hopefully great games find more players because of this promotion.

  • Bremenacht #11 4 months ago

    Oh! Thank the stars. Having to go all the way through Thursday without any barrel-scraped ME3 info was terrible! Normal service has been resumed.

    pew

  • kangarootoo #12 4 months ago

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  • kangarootoo #13 4 months ago

    @Naster

    Game balance due to "from the start" extra items is indeed a valid concern whenever it occurs, but I hope they have considered this (extra items can just mean more choice, not more power).

    As for promoting their game, I don't see this as a bad thing. Its necessary in order to push sales and continue making games that we all enjoy. If both these titles are on your watch list, I guess its safe to assume you like them, and so I'd have thought you would happily accept little diversions like this if it makes more certain the likelyhood of further sequels and content. We can't always have everything our preferred way...

  • kangarootoo #14 4 months ago

    @Ternon

    I think the issue might be that running animations are so far down the list of important considerations in a game like Mass Effect.

    Suggesting Bioware are letting themselves go because they didn't prioritise the running animations over other aspects of their epic story driven space opera RPG is perhaps what got you the negs.

    You don't get points for simply pointing out things we can all see with our eyes you know ;)

  • Naster #15 4 months ago

    @kangarootoo

    Yeah, it's not a big deal. It can just get a little bothersome to be asked to jump through these hoops like downloading, installing and playing through demos, playing through facebook games, liking the games on facebook, pre-ordering from certain sources, and whatever else the publishers come up with, just to unlock all those possible in-game rewards.

    While some of these things could be fun little diversions if I myself chose to pursue them out of fun, when I'm "coerced" to grind through them for game unlocks, it can feel like work.

    But if you can take the state of mind that these are just small extra bonuses for those who want go through the trouble and not a loss for those who don't, then it doesn't matter much.

  • Gastrian #16 4 months ago

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  • desomondo #17 4 months ago

    I'm stoked we are even getting demos at all in this day and age. The bonus items are just icing on the cake. Now, lets just see if both demos come to the PC as well as consoles.

  • kalstrams #18 4 months ago

    Quite cool idea, especially if you are into both of these games.

  • lostlain #19 4 months ago

    Do i have to use origin to play this? ):

  • desomondo #20 4 months ago

    Mass Effect 3 will definitely require Origin:

    http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/8975536

    I'm not 100% sure about Kingdoms of Amalur, but I think it's safe to assume that it will considering that both Battlefield 3 and now Mass Effect 3 do.
    Edited by desomondo at 15/01/12 @ 17:57