Mass Effect 3/Gameplay

Mass Effect 3 marks the end where all the deciding factors come together to take down a common enemy: Reapers. Not just that. Illusive Man is back trying to gain control of the Reapers by using illusive means and has an assistant out to assassinate you and your comrades. People who are new to the game is now accessible in three different types of play styles:


 * Story: Enemies are easier to deal with in order to breeze through the story and choosing what you say to your people. Also customize your person.
 * Role-playing: There's a fair balance between story and action with the enemies slightly more balanced. You can customize your person and have full access to the conversation panel.
 * Action: Even though you can't customize your person and choose what you say, nevertheless, you'll be focusing on combat more than ever. Actually this is for people who wants to go straight into the game, the way it's meant to play out.

If you're playing story and role-playing, the conversation determines whether you're a Paragon or a Renegade. Not exactly like "Sakura Wars So Long My Love" but it's close. Paragon (blue color) emphasizing being a good nature is simply choosing the upper half of the conversation choice. Renegade (red color) is being a take no prisoner attitude soldier or emphasizing unlikable anti-hero, the lower half is the obvious choice. Middle is neutral. The exception is actually down to your relationship with Ash/Kaidan, genephage cure and the war with the high tech Geths and Quarians.

That's not all, you can customize your weapons, help civilians of the galactic race and also a possible romance between you and your choice as a lover. Lastly, your actions back in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 determines how the story get to this point, in the race to finish the Crucible, stopping Cerberus and ending the Reapers galactic wipeout every 50,000 years! Your choice is up to you.

Menus
In summary, new game has game styles, customization and choice of a specialist you are. If you load a game, it will use the most files that you save. Resume is using the most recent file you use. Achievements is really a medal tally for having a record or doing something to achieve that goal. Credits is people behind the game. Extras is really for you to choose from difficulty to sound settings. Some games allows you to choose voice languages other than English and only on the Wii U there is a manual for you to use to learn about the button layout. Also before you start the game, you can do it fresh or import it from either your finished Shepard character or from Mass Effect 1 and 2. Wii U version includes the comic backstory minus the side missions, downloadable content and N7 missions from the last two Mass Effects.

Moving around
The permanent places you can move around is the Normandy-2 and the Citadel. Before and Aftermath. Be sure to move around a dozens of times to acquire side missions and N7 missions and even fetch quests to get more war assets.

Characters
Besides Shepard, there's Liara, Garrus, Tali, Ash, Kaiden and many, many others you'll meet as there's such a huge cast of characters. Not to mention the villains Illusive Man and Kai Leng.

Attributes
Shepards class has different attributes. Soldier is expert use on guns, biotics is psychic powers, vanguard is taking attacks head on, sentinels emphasizes armor protection and few more with special uses. Experiment them and pick one suits your playing style.

Equipment
Guns and armor can be customized. Guns on your first play will have up to five mods to pick but you can only get two. So don't forget to keep updating your gun selection before each mission. That includes your squad. Same with armor. You can choose a preset or pick different parts of the armor that suits you. Don't forget to change your current clothing if you don't like it but it's a preset as well.

Combat
This is primarily a third person shooter. Really use as much cover as possible and most importantly, once your crosshair changes to red, that's when you shoot. Also you can use biotics or special powers to turn the gun fight in your favor.

Loot
Every single level has hidden items to look for. Credits, guns and mods is what to look out for. Be thorough in your search and you might get lucky.