Maybe one or two of you have just seen Mass Effect 3 at the EA Press Conference, and I want to know what your thoughts are.
The demo had Shepard on the Earth after the Reaper invasion had began, first taking down a string of enemies with a few shots of a rifle before laser targeting a Reaper base of operations. The Normandy V2 comes in an performs the shot, but only serves to piss off a Reaper that was hidden in the base. The Reaper gives chase as Shepard makes his way to a turret, before going on a scripted rail shooter segment. Obviously outmatched, Shepard calls in a strike from an orbiting vessel on the Reaper which seems disabled, but for a brief moment of time, before getting up pissed.
Yeah, I know, I'm not sold either. Whilst I have never tried to shy away from innovation or a leap into the unknown, I can't believe that what I just watched was certainly not a Mass Effect title. I probably wouldn't have known, were it not for the names being used or the N7 armor, I would have potentially thought this a new IP, or something in the SOCOM branch (large, hulking machine monster with standing).
The Reaper in the first game symbolised near-invincibility, requiring an entire galactic fleet to destroy a single one- even then only managing when it was disabled. At the very beginning of the first Mass Effect, we saw a ship in the far distance that was titanic, dwarfing the surrounding landscape and puny human structures, yet in this demo we saw something that looks more War Of the Worlds crossed with a squid, which almost bites the dust from a single shot from a human cannon in orbit? I thought these were machines that had harvested 'countless' races prior to this moment, had survived millennia in dark space and should have this harvesting gig down to a tee, what the fuck could is it they're doing?
The only thing I can think of on the Reaper front is that a Reaper is perhaps tiny (or maybe one Reaper can split into many ground forms?), and would use the bulk of its vessel for transport and storage, but even that is a weak excuse.
So, what did you think?
Gametrailers footage [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-mass-effect/714871]
The demo had Shepard on the Earth after the Reaper invasion had began, first taking down a string of enemies with a few shots of a rifle before laser targeting a Reaper base of operations. The Normandy V2 comes in an performs the shot, but only serves to piss off a Reaper that was hidden in the base. The Reaper gives chase as Shepard makes his way to a turret, before going on a scripted rail shooter segment. Obviously outmatched, Shepard calls in a strike from an orbiting vessel on the Reaper which seems disabled, but for a brief moment of time, before getting up pissed.
Yeah, I know, I'm not sold either. Whilst I have never tried to shy away from innovation or a leap into the unknown, I can't believe that what I just watched was certainly not a Mass Effect title. I probably wouldn't have known, were it not for the names being used or the N7 armor, I would have potentially thought this a new IP, or something in the SOCOM branch (large, hulking machine monster with standing).
The Reaper in the first game symbolised near-invincibility, requiring an entire galactic fleet to destroy a single one- even then only managing when it was disabled. At the very beginning of the first Mass Effect, we saw a ship in the far distance that was titanic, dwarfing the surrounding landscape and puny human structures, yet in this demo we saw something that looks more War Of the Worlds crossed with a squid, which almost bites the dust from a single shot from a human cannon in orbit? I thought these were machines that had harvested 'countless' races prior to this moment, had survived millennia in dark space and should have this harvesting gig down to a tee, what the fuck could is it they're doing?
The only thing I can think of on the Reaper front is that a Reaper is perhaps tiny (or maybe one Reaper can split into many ground forms?), and would use the bulk of its vessel for transport and storage, but even that is a weak excuse.
So, what did you think?
Gametrailers footage [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-mass-effect/714871]
