It's not the best part it sux.
And I didn't really review it in detail as I quit playing it very soon. But it didn't affect by any means the 0 nor 7 /10.
But if you want a bit about it…
Initially you have a few races/classes to play with.
By playing, you level them and earn cash.
With cash you pay a lotery ticket and gamble - maybe you get another type of champion, maybe not.
Oh, and… You can pay with Bioware points (real money) for this gambling.
There is a huge difference between these MP toons and ingame NPCs. Multiplayer ones have only 2-3 skills. And you can't, by any means, change skills on keys.
I was furious I can't put warp skill on another key when I was playing a human adept in multiplayer!
Some multiplayer toons are much more useable than others. For example two asari chicks can instakill Atlas (Cerberus boss, mech) just by biotic explosions as asari have warp+throw.
Thanks to MOBA genre, EA wanted as much different "heroes" as possible to milk you on gambling. What fans got?
Another bloody plot hole!
Did you play and finish ME2? Yea, you did. A question:
How many ships collectors have?
1. Only 1 and you know that from ME2. And in ME2 you will destroy it.
From Mass Effect movie, suddenly happens that there was a second collector ship, James Vega destroyed easily and almost singlehandedly without Normandy, EDI and all those resources Shepard needed in ME2 (another bloody plot hole because of which I toldya not to watch that milk fans rotten animated insult).
And one of "heroes" you may win on a lottery is?
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Ma..._Customization/Adept#Awakened_Collector_Adept
Well excuse me. Shepard killed every single collector out there. If we will close an eye on the plot hole in the movie, let's say those Shepard didn't kill were destroyed by James Vega. WTF are now Awakened Collector Adepts and where the hell did they come from? Imagine additional confusion if a player never bought Leviathan DLC. Oh and did you see any of these mobs in Mass Effect 3 singleplayer? NO YOU DIDN'T.
How do you play? Easily. Either you create an instance or join another, some maps are a bit harder than others, but you can't lose if you pick bronze challenge any mobs and any map.
On the map you need to deal with about a dozen of challenges. Hack some points, nail some hostiles, pick and carry an item to another spot or protect a repair drone. And that's it. Oh and it's not PvP like someone mentioned in this thread Call of Duty, maps are PvE. One of those you've seen near the end of ME3 in a singleplayer mission and honestly it's one of the worst designed maps in the game if not the worst.
Sorry but there was no fun for me in it at all. But as I can't be objective on a grinder, I mean I hate grinding, sorry but I can't say it's x/10. All I can say it wasn't fun.
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Oddly, noone asked me how come I didn't mention the "bug" on imported savegame where your minerals war assets are not 100, but just 10 or 25 although you had hundreds of thousands minerals collected in ME2.
Not only that, ppl were and still are trying to find how does that work (fell free to check both google and bioware forums).
I'll tell you this. I didn't have hundreds of thousands of minerals on import and got 100 assets both recent replays. What I did have both times is almost all DLC.
IMO the value of minerals asset doesn't depend on the grinding mineral mining minigame in ME2. I'm 99.99% sure it depends on how many DLC you've bought. No DLC, you get 10. One or two DLC, you get 25. Three or more, hey here's 100!
ME4 is being developed and it's possible we see it next year.
Do you remember when Ray Muzyka wrote that in ME3 they won't leave any question unanswered and that we'll find out exactly what was bothering us in ME1&2 (I've mentioned I wanted to see how does Tali look without her mask).
After we didn't get answers and after it was an obvious and blatant lie, Muzyka left Bioware.
Me, a fan who didn't stop only on their dirty DLC business but bought also comics, the movie and N7 jacket replica - I'm not buying ME4.
The only way I'll buy it is if there is no gameaffecting DLC.
I don't care if it will have multiplayer, it's not for me, okay, there are people who will enjoy it. I also don't care if there will be plot holes thanks to cashgrab DLC (like the biggest one with how Earth wasn't destroyed - thanks to Arrival DLC where just a relay destroys a solar system and in ME3 it was the biggest relay of them all, Citadel, in Sol system).
Give me the whole game, I'll pay any price you ask, but I don't want to be an idiot any more. If you need to sell DLC, sell it as a standalone thing. But do not touch the game.
Honestly I had so much more to write, a detail on every mission, story and substory I like or dislike, but in the end what's the point of it? I've already written too much about ME3 anyway.
If you will accept to buy ME3 with all DLC, you'll have fun and I bet you'll agree it deserves 7/10 as I've posted in the first post. But if you don't buy all DLC, and then stop and think about the whole business EA did with ME3, all you will see is one letdown over another.
A game should be fun, not a letdown. A collection of letdowns can deserve only one thing. That's my 0/10 in the second post.
You pick the one you feel is more proper for you.
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And a spoiler for the end in the case you're still confused why I sound like a complete lunatic when it comes to EA.
Imagine you play ME3 and pick botoxed Ashley and blue beauty Liara with you on the mission to cure the genophage. Wrex has a comment. Uninteresting one.
But you buy deliberately cut out From Ashes DLC and you pick Garrus and Javik (Prothean) with you. Wrex says this:
And EA dared to cut out this from the game? Exact words I thought in ME2? A perfect oneliner, hilarious especially coming out from Wrex' mouth?
And it's not the only thing you miss to see. In the game. Remember this is in the game. The game you've payed for. This is not some separate optional DLC mission that can't affect the game anyhow.
But to see this, you have to pay for DLC.
Sorry, but it makes me sick.