Mass Effect 3 (2012)
Mass Effect 3 is a 2012 shooter video game made by BioWare and BioWare Edmonton.
The Reapers have reached Earth. Commander Shepard, now racing to unite fractured alien civilizations, must hold together an interspecies coalition under the weight of impossible choices. Mass Effect 3 is a war game in the truest sense: every mission accumulates readiness for a final push, and the relationships built across two previous games carry real emotional stakes. Combat feels the most fluid of the trilogy, cooperative multiplayer adds a separate theater of conflict, and the script doesn't flinch from the cost of a last stand.
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What is Mass Effect 3 about?
The Reapers have reached Earth. Commander Shepard, now racing to unite fractured alien civilizations, must hold together an interspecies coalition under the weight of impossible choices. Mass Effect 3 is a war game in the truest sense: every mission accumulates readiness for a final push, and the relationships built across two previous games carry real emotional stakes. Combat feels the most fluid of the trilogy, cooperative multiplayer adds a separate theater of conflict, and the script doesn't flinch from the cost of a last stand.
When was Mass Effect 3 released?
Mass Effect 3 was released on 6 March 2012.
Who made Mass Effect 3?
Mass Effect 3 was made by BioWare, BioWare Edmonton and Electronic Arts.
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Mass Effect: Annihilation runs parallel to this game, following a quarian-and-drell ship during the Reaper invasion. For the same desperate-coalition energy in a different medium, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan remains the gold standard.
The expanded Mass Effect universe
Novels and films set in the same galaxy during the Reaper war, following characters and missions that run in parallel to Shepard's campaign.