ME3 Demo impressions.

[LastManDancing]

I got the demo a few hours ago and it's really good.

Seriously, it got me so hyped.

If anyone else did, post your thoughts on the game and if there are any questions I'll happily answer.

[LastManDancing]

Ah well then a few thoughts:

The demo is split into two parts: the very beginning of the game, and the section they showed numerous times

The area with Mordin and you have to save the Krogan female from Cerberus. Spoiler for Squadmates:

Wrex is there, but he doesn't fight with you. Garrus and Liara have some good lines, especially Garrus.

The graphics have definitely been improved. Some human character models/animations look weird, but the main cast looks great. Ashley especially looks amazing.

Combat/Sound design

The weapons all feel great and man do they sound great too. I definitely applaud BW for that. I like the soundtrack. The combat is way faster and more challenging thanks to the new enemy variations and never felt cheap. The only gripe I have is sometimes you want to go into cover and you roll instead. I can see that being a pain on insanity.

The weapons you get are the Eviscerator Shotgun, Tempest SMG, Avenger/Mattock AR, and the predator pistol. There's no Sniper Rifle at all in the demo.

Health is handled like in Resistance 1, you have several blocks (5) and as long as a block has some life left it'll refill. If there is none, it won't.

Medi-gel heals Shepard again and revives squadmates.

Squadmates can be revived by Shep now by going up to them and holding down A to get them back in the fight.

You can now map squad powers to your controller (Left/Right on d-pad). I found this pretty great actually, since I was able to use the more common ones without having to stop the flow of combat.

Special melee attacks:

Soldier has the omni thrust.
Infiltrator/Engineer/Sentinel have the omni swipe.
Vanguard/Adept have Biotic Blast.

Vanguard has a second one too. If you're running and hold down the melee button, you'll jump in the air and slam your fist.

All are as they sound, but they're powerful as they'll kill anyone with red health.

Each class has a new power:

Vanguard's have Nova, which you use your biotic barrier to power up. You slam the ground and it damages surrounding enemies/knocks them down. It's really cool.

Engineer's have Sentry Turrets, which can be upgraded to do armor-piercing rounds. The thing I don't like is how you throw them. Shepard just chucks the thing like a grenade and it never went where I wanted it to.

Soldier's have regular grenades. It's nothing special, but they do a lot of damage. Overall, the soldier seems like the worst class, since the only thing they had going for it was the ability to use all weapons. Now that the other classes can too, and most powers are ammo powers, the class seems the most boring.

Infiltrator, has sticky grenades. If you've played Halo, you get what they do.

Sentinels have Lift Grenades. Enemies hit get knocked into the air, and with warp you get a warp explosion. It's pretty good.

Adepts, have Cluster grenades. You throw like three small grenades at once.

That's mostly it that I can think of. There were no paragon/renegades choices, armor customization, or weapon customization also. Although, you do find pieces for both during the demo.

Oh and Garrus/Liara have unique powers.

Garrus can throw proximinity mines and Liara can cast statis (Which is still really good. You can actually damage enemies now while they're in statis and after enough damage it'll break then they'll be on the ground).

Plus, how many weapons you carry effect your cooldown rate. The less weapons you have the faster your powers regenerate.

[Fenix]

Wait, what.. how did you get the demo? I thought that was next week

[LastManDancing]

I believe there's Microsoft Expertzone, but here's an app on facebook where you can get the demo code. I got it on my first try, but I read a lot of people having trouble. I tried again earlier, but failed.

https://apps.facebook.com/xboxmasseffect/uk

I don't believe the multiplayer is up yet.

More about the demo. Sabotage is back, it prevents enemies from firing and can also hack machines.

[PsychoMantis]

Mass Effect 3....oh that's what ME3 means...

[Sylar]

I believe there's Microsoft Expertzone, but here's an app on facebook where you can get the demo code. I got it on my first try, but I read a lot of people having trouble. I tried again earlier, but failed.

https://apps.facebook.com/xboxmasseffect/uk

I've tried this 3 times and gotten nowhere lol driving me mental. Seems like the early access to the demo from buying battlefield 3 went out the window?

I don't believe the multiplayer is up yet.

More about the demo. Sabotage is back, it prevents enemies from firing and can also hack machines.

wtf didnt post my comment?

Anyway I've tried the mini game on facebook 3 times now lol and gotten nowhere :@ I thought buying battlefield entered you to get early access to the demo, or was that just the multiplayer demo? I dont know XD

[LastManDancing]

wtf didnt post my comment?

Anyway I've tried the mini game on facebook 3 times now lol and gotten nowhere :@ I thought buying battlefield entered you to get early access to the demo, or was that just the multiplayer demo? I dont know XD

I read online and people think they may have run out.


http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...ExmdPx__zun-Aw

Anyway, here's a list of track files from the demo. I knew the soundtrack was good when playing, but am I blown away hearing them without being distracted with the game.

[Soldier 95B]

I just read the Game Informer impression of the Kinect Mass Effect 3 demo. They praised the Kinect for sure. The things that stick out...you don't have to stop/break gameplay to send your teammates or switch weapons. You can keep firing away and order your teammates to do things without bringing up the menu. Nice immersion there. They also mention how fast you can save just by saying "quick save" while playing so that you don't have to pause or stop the game. It also recognized everything they said without error.

If you got the new GI, check it out. They go into more depth.

[LastManDancing]

Quick save sounds really good, but giving squadmates commands with your voice won't cut it on the higher difficulties.

I'd rather tap left on the d-pad for Garrus concussive shot during battle then say it out loud in the heat of battle, but it's preference and kudos for Bioware for at least implementing it. Controller is more practical.

[LastManDancing]

People who have BF3 access code can now play Multiplayer.

This person is streaming and it looks very fun.

http://www.twitch.tv/deinonychus

Multiplayer demo should go public Feb 17th.

[Minnzy]

Quick save sounds really good, but giving squadmates commands with your voice won't cut it on the higher difficulties.

I'd rather tap left on the d-pad for Garrus concussive shot during battle then say it out loud in the heat of battle, but it's preference and kudos for Bioware for at least implementing it. Controller is more practical.

Didn't you grow up watching cartoons? Screaming the name of an attack makes it stronger!!!

[Soldier 95B]

Quick save sounds really good, but giving squadmates commands with your voice won't cut it on the higher difficulties.

I'd rather tap left on the d-pad for Garrus concussive shot during battle then say it out loud in the heat of battle, but it's preference and kudos for Bioware for at least implementing it. Controller is more practical.

Based in the GI review, using the Kinect voice was quicker. But we will see once we get the demo.

[LastManDancing]

Didn't you grow up watching cartoons? Screaming the name of an attack makes it stronger!!!

lol.

Based in the GI review, using the Kinect voice was quicker. But we will see once we get the demo.

If you have kinect, then I think you'll agree. I can't wait to see what people here think.

[Soldier 95B]

I have the BF3 early multiplayer access too, so that is exciting. Can't wait to download it tomorrow.

[LastManDancing]

I have the BF3 early multiplayer access too, so that is exciting. Can't wait to download it tomorrow.

I'm jelly, although I think you can play it now.

[Soldier 95B]

Well, you need access to the demo before you can unlock the multiplayer portion of the demo.

[LastManDancing]

Well, you need access to the demo before you can unlock the multiplayer portion of the demo.

Oh, I thought there was just a code that you input to download the demo.

[Soldier 95B]

Any more peeps download this yet??! Holy fucking shit is it cool. It's the most epic Mass Effect yet...the demo gives me goosebumps! And the Kinect integration....WOW.

[podsaurus]

I was going to hold off getting this game because I have a bunch of other games I want to play. After the demo I realized again how awesome it is to be Shepard. I think I'm going to go pre-order the game tomorrow.

[Fenix]

Not sure how I feel right now;

Single Player: Pretty good, lot of improvements that I like. Love that you can map a third key now instead of it being assigned for you. Sadly didnt get as pumped as I thought I would, End of ME2 got me more pumped. Does anyone know wtf happened between ME2 and 3? At the start your not the commander of the Normandy

Multiplayer: Was not what I expected, I dont know what I was expecting but a horde-like mode was not it.

Either way I cant wait till this drops, I SHOULD have it preordered but I' got bullshitted out of my FF13-2 preorder so I wont hold my breath

[Inzane2050]

Gah! The hair is still plastic! XD

[bigCman123]

Well I'm away from my PS3 right now, and if my plan works out I won't be around it until a few days before Mass Effect 3 drops. I just downloaded the demo on my pc, I hope it can handle it (at least on shitty/medium settings). The music sounds really good, not what I was expecting from a video game, very original.

I am really pumped for Mass Effect 3.

[radgamer420]

Any more peeps download this yet??! Holy fucking shit is it cool. It's the most epic Mass Effect yet...the demo gives me goosebumps! And the Kinect integration....WOW.

Loved the demo. I saw a demonstration in a video on Live showing Kinect being used and it was actually pretty cool. Definitley the best use of Kinect integration that I've seen yet.

[WarMachine043]

Demo was meh.... The damage system needs to be fixed ASAP!!!! many times I didnt know I was getting shot at and then all of a sudden I would just die!!!!! Multiplayer was very lame/boring. I loved ME1 and ME2, but I REALLY hope they didnt reduce single player content and replace it with Multiplayer....... Also, not a big fan of the omniblade

[WarMachine043]

Demo was meh.... The damage system needs to be fixed ASAP!!!! many times I didnt know I was getting shot at and then all of a sudden I would just die!!!!! Multiplayer was very lame/boring. I loved ME1 and ME2, but I REALLY hope they didnt reduce single player content and replace it with Multiplayer....... Also, not a big fan of the omniblade

Oh, and by the way, played it with/without Kinect...... Much better WITHOUT Kinect