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02-15-2012, 08:51 PM,

So yesterday ME 3 demo came out and I will say right from beginning it's definitely not flawless for me, I would even risk saying, it's rather mediocre but let's get to the point.

After spending whole evening where the hell is the download link because other people already said they are playing I found it out on Origin, here is one thing I would like to congratulate to EA, no origin freezes and I even had my full download speed, that is something I did not expect.

Since I also pre-ordered BF 3 I can test that one too but I will get to it a bit later.

I downloaded in circa 30 minutes and then drooling started the game. The demo menu is rather simple. SP demo, multiplayer, options (You can't change graphic options except for brightness and such, which is a bit weird) and that's about it.

SP demo here we go. Since the demo doesn't have save support from previous titles, you pick up a female/male (you can customize them as you like), class and brief history as known from previous titles (spacer, colonist/war hero, ruthless etc) and also thing that affected your Shepard (three options: Death of Ashley/Kaideen/more losses in squad - this will most definitely decide who you see in game, since you meet Ashley right at the beginning) and then you go right away in.

In short, Shepard is grounded, colonies go dark, Hatchett calls for mobilization and you are called to meet the defense committee. You have a chance to see the new teammate as well as face-lifted Ashley (personally I really don't like it). And here come my first complains.

The cinematic parts - I don't know maybe its me, but the ME 2 looked just better, the face movement of characters is rather... weird, it somehow looks like if they wanted to have super detailed faces and then said "I am too lazy" and did the rest in MS Paint (metaphor of course)

The dialog wheel now has just two options (in whole demo part!).

Frightened defense buro asks Shepard what to do when the first wow moment happens - Reaper attack live.

Here you get first to control, you run with Anderson to your ship where Ashley awaits you.

First two seconds and I was again D:, Andersons movement was just... akward, I am not picking up details really it just hit me on first look.

Male Shepard's looked rather fine, but then when playing female Shepard? I have nothing against large bottoms really, but do I have to have her ass on half of my screen? (needles to say, such a close zoom is only in this part - but still, it really hits your eyes)

The second wow moment was Reaper two shotting a human Dreadnought, scripted but it makes the effect,

After you get to Normandy, you get fast skipped in the story to the point where you are saving the Krogan female. Your teammates are Garrus (Huzzah!) Liara (Yay) and to make me most happy Wrex (sadly he is on the mission with you but not as a part of your squad). Concerning this mission I have nothing to say really, it's a basic push and defend one, so I will get back to basics.

Combat, yeah, that is the thing that matters me most, the reworked cover system is just ... I might admit it's just me but it feels terribly clunky, Shepard covers when you want him to shoot, aims when you want to leave the cover and so long and so long, at first it looks really similar to ME 2 one but it's just ....

Different.

I think that will be all for now, feel free to comment and don't forget this is my personal opinion. I will get to the MP part in another post.

r3vange · 02-15-2012, 09:04 PM,

[color=#FFFFFF]Challenge Everything

Korny · 02-15-2012, 10:23 PM,

Just played a bit. Love Shepards ass (Female one) Dunno' what your problem is 8|

Anyway. Cutscenes seem a little odd to me. Camera ankles are terrible, character faces are sort of weak, emotions practically non existent.

ME feeling is there in the cutscenes, but yeah, didn't "play" any further. I just Alt-F4'd after the cutscene.

Basically I didn't actually play it yet, just checked the first scene.

02-15-2012, 10:25 PM,

' Wrote:Just played a bit. Love Shepards ass (Female one) Dunno' what your problem is 8|

Anyway. Cutscenes seem a little odd to me. Camera ankles are terrible, character faces are sort of weak, emotions practically non existent.

ME feeling is there in the cutscenes, but yeah, didn't "play" any further. I just Alt-F4'd after the cutscene.

Basically I didn't actually play it yet, just checked the first scene.

Wait for the moment when you first get to controls and then make her run, her background will cover half of your screen.

But you see what I mean with the cutscens... It's just weird, it looks worse than ME 2 did...

Korny · 02-15-2012, 10:28 PM,

I'll just say "Cuz' it's the demo" at this point. If they release it like this for PC, I'd laugh my ass off.

Haphestus · 02-16-2012, 08:16 AM,

Liked the first level, but the first level is meant to be good to lock you in.

BIOTIC PUUUAAANNNCCCCHHH

also Ashlee.
O.o

Nano Machines, Son.

Canadianguy · 02-16-2012, 04:32 PM,

I would not judge the story and choice making part of the game from the demo. I am quite sure they heavily cut this part to not spoil too much stuff.

I agree though about the clunkiness of the cover system in the second part, I ended up switching cover quite often while trying to get out of it.

Appart from that it seems quite similar in terms of mechanics to ME2.

There is one thing I find totally stupid though and its the "game-mode" choice if I could call it like that.
I don't understand why they wasted time programing the "F the story I just want to shoot stuff" mode and the "I want a totally unchallenging game experience so I can concentrate 100% on the story" mode.

ME is an FPS-RPG with story and moral choices occupying an important part.
If you remove one of these things its just not quite a ME game anymore.

Corsair · 02-16-2012, 11:32 PM,

I'm going to be playing it this weekend, but I must say that the game sounds rather un-finished. It's released in less than two weeks, and that's not a lot of time to fix these numerous issues. In fact, this demo should have been released as a beta months ago. :|

02-17-2012, 01:18 AM,

' Wrote:I'm going to be playing it this weekend, but I must say that the game sounds rather un-finished. It's released in less than two weeks, and that's not a lot of time to fix these numerous issues. In fact, this demo should have been released as a beta months ago. :|

How could that happen?! EA publishes their games always completely worki-

Oh wait :(

Jeremy Hunter · 02-17-2012, 01:27 AM,

For all you know, they just released lste alpha-early/late Beta they had made a month or so ago.

Don't judge by a demo.

Also, I saw nothing wrong with her ass, and the movements were fine for me.

Xbox seems to have gotten the better deal:P

May you ever walk in the Light, Shizune.

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