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Mass Effect 3: Citadel

When a sinister conspiracy targets Commander Shepard, you and your team must uncover the truth, through battles and intrigue that range from the glamour of the Citadel's Wards to the top-secret Council…

88 5 March 2013

Mass Effect 3: Citadel is a role-playing (rpg) developed by BioWare, released 5 March 2013 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Mass Effect 3: Citadel is

Mass Effect 3: Citadel is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by BioWare and released in 2013. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mass Effect 3: Citadel is a downloadable content (DLC) pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for the 2012 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 3. It was released for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in March 2013. The pack follows Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy SR-2 starship on shore leave, where they must uncover the truth surrounding a conspiracy against Shepard.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mass Effect series

Mass Effect 3: Citadel is the 37th of 48 entries we hold in the Mass Effect series. The next entry was Mass Effect: Genesis 2 in 2013. Its critic score of 88 is 12 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Mass Effect 2 at 96.

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How it was received

Mass Effect 3: Citadel holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 99 votes.

What it launched against

Mass Effect 3: Citadel launched on 5 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

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Mass Effect 3: Citadel was released on 5 March 2013 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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