Bad King wrote...
I personally think that ME3 should have been about working with both the Alliance and Cerberus with Shepard having the option to show his support or disdain towards the Alliance or Cerberus in conversation (although he would have no choice but to work for both). This would give us some good roleplaying options without having to make 2 completely different campaigns (an Alliance campaign and a Cerberus campaign).
Spot on!!
I think at the very least we should have atleast had the option to rejoin Cerberus if we made certain choices in ME2
--Collector's base
--handing over the Geth (Legion)
--uploading the major information that implicates Cerberus to TIM instead of the alliance. I can't remember the mission name.
Other posters have listed the quests that would help Cerberus as well. I don't know how it would have been done exactly, but we should have
atleast had the option.
ME3 should have been much more diverse than it was. The Illusive Man was cold but calculating; he has wisdom, power, and resources. He's not a Cobra Commander villan which he was made out to be in ME3 it seemed.
Honestly, Illusive Man spent a fortune to bring you back after the alliance gave up on you. After working well together in ME2, he basically ignores you in ME3? Makes no sense. TIM didn't even want to put a control chip inside you either. I think that showed how much he wanted Shepard on his side.
Furthermore, if you sided with Cerberus in ME2 most of the time, wouldn't Shepard be even more valuable to Cerberus? TIM has the Alliance's most renown Spectre working with him to stop The Collectors and Reapers; and then in ME3 they are mortal enemies? Why? There isn't a good enough reason to justify that unless your Shepard made it clear he was not going to get involved with Cerberus throughout ME2. But for those who liked Cerberus and made an effort to try and side with TIM, we should have atleast had the option to rejoin once Shepard leaves Earth.