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1. Mass Effect 3 is destined for a January 2012 release
The Dev Team has told us that Mass Effect 3 will be released either late2011 or early 2012. Ray Muzyka stated that they want to “maximize the quality [of ME3] for our fans and maximize the commercial success for the company”. By maximize commercial success they mean, “Our fans will have lots of Christmas gift cards.” So our safest prediction is a January 2012 release date.
2. Team Division
Face it, the team conflict train has left the station and it ain’t coming back. And since we expect Mass Effect 3 will increase the size of your team, the juicy opportunities for back stabbing will be far to tempting for the developers. Did we say the team size will expand? Sure did, so expect at least half of the cast from Mass Effect 2 to return (if they survived the Suicide Mission, that is), some of the folks from the original, and a handful of new ones.
Now about that conflict..you’d better start preparing your apologies nowbecause your love interest from the original Mass Effect is going to call you out for cheating in Mass Effect 2. Emotions will be flying so high, you’ll have to tip toe past some rooms. There are enough conflicting interests in the game to start a nuclear war inside the new Normandy (more on that later).
Relationally speaking, the most drama will come from Ashley Williams andMiranda Lawson [or your ME1/ME2 love interests of choice]. They don’t call ’em bombshells for nothing. Williams and Lawson in particular, are both beautiful, both are competitive, and both have enough insecurity to need Shepard to prop them up. Three’s a crowd in that triangle, and Shepard will more than likely choose which one to embrace and which one will die a Heroine’s death. Of course if you’re playing a female Shepard, the three of you might be best friends and have some killer intergalactic slumber parties (hello, zero gravity pillow fights!).
So what does this all mean? Don’t expect all members to stay on the team from start to finish. In Mass Effect 2, the team barely held together. So, after throwing in the characters from the original game, you’ll have too much for one commander to control.
3. Grunt and Urdnot Wrex fix their baby makers
On a more uplifting note, we anticipate a quest that will trigger a touching, right-of-passage relationship between Grunt and Urdnot Wrex asthey find a cure for their sterile race. This will more than likely be aside mission that forces Shepard to decide between curing the Krogan reproduction problem or some other galactically important option.
4. BioWare plays the ‘Judas’ card
And you can count on one major, major betrayal. Let that sink in...Think about it, every epic story has betrayal. William Wallace was betrayed by Robert the Bruce, Obi-Wan was betrayed by Anakin, Frodo was betrayed
by Boromir, Jesus was betrayed by Judas and Kenny is betrayed every day by the writers of South Park. The difficult thing about predicting who will be the Judas is that all the characters could betray Shepard
depending on how a player plays. They each have their own passionate issues.
Here are a few scenarios to consider:
* Miranda might betray Shepard if he endangers her sister, or sense of family.
* Ashley and Garrus might betray Shepard if he sides with Cerberus.
* Grunt and Urdnot might betray Shepard if he seals the fate of the sterile Krogan race.
* Tali'Zorah could be the Judas if Shepard ruins the Quarian's chances to return to their homeland.
* Jacob could betray the team if he feels Shepard is putting the Human race in danger.
* It might be Mordin Solus if logically betrayal will lead to the greater good for the galaxy.
* It could be Legion, but I'm guessing not. That would be too obvious.
5. The old Normandy was so 2010...it gets a make-over
What’s that? A new Normandy? That’s right, we’re doubling down with all our chips to bet there’ll be a new Normandy. We’re guessing about 20% bigger to make room for the 12- to 14-member team. They also have to make some room for the new MAKO (wink, wink) – more than likely a hover-tank. Here’s a freebie prediction, they won’t go back to the straight land-exploration of Mass Effect, but it wouldn’t surprise us if they used a new MAKO to break up the action some with some mission-related functionality.
6. The Cerberus are smug lying bastards and the Illusive Man is an android.
We expect Cerberus to take off their “greater good” pretenses and Shepard must make a choice between Miranda and Jacob with Cerberus or Ashley and Garrus against Cerberus. Or perhaps that spark in the Illusive Man’s eye turns out to be synthetic and he’s using Shepard to defeat the Reapers making way for a Geth uprising. Of course the beauty of Mass Effect is that all options are possible.
7. The playthrough score will include all three games
Lastly, lets try a technical prediction for a change. We know that BioWare is working hard to cement the ties between all three games. And what better way to do this than at the end of Mass Effect 3 have the
player's achievements rank based on how well you finished the ENTIRE trilogy. Players who take their time, do the exploration and complete all character quests will proudly know they’ve got nothing left to prove. Slackers will beat the game and see just how much more replay they’ve got.
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TIM being a synthetic would be intriguing and could explain the Human-Reaper. If he was being controlled by the Geth or was apart of them - a leader even. It could be theorized he commissioned the Reaper to be constructed or used Harbringer in some manner, sense a humanoid variation. In addition we open the door to why he desired the Collector base so much, why he revived Shepard. I like this theory!
Do not mind me, I am in my moment and hypnotizing all this.
Modifié par Bourne Endeavor, 23 novembre 2010 - 08:44 .
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