Mass Effect 3: From Ashes
Cerberus has attacked Eden Prime and taken over a human colony. Alliance forces are stretched too thin fighting the Reapers and are unable to offer support. Intel indicates that Cerberus is after a Prothean…
Mass Effect 3: From Ashes is a role-playing (rpg) developed by BioWare, released 6 March 2012 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Mass Effect 3: From Ashes is
Mass Effect 3: From Ashes is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by BioWare and released in 2012. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mass Effect 3: From Ashes 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 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 as a standalone download on March 6, 2012, and included with all retail copies of Mass Effect 3: Special Edition for Wii U. Set within the Milky Way galaxy during the 22nd century, From Ashes follows Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy as they investigate an attack on the colony of Eden Prime by the anthropocentric terrorist group Cerberus, where a Prothean artifact had recently been unearthed.
How it plays
It is played from a third 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: From Ashes is the 19th of 48 entries we hold in the Mass Effect series. It arrived 11 months after Mass Effect 2: Arrival. The next entry was Mass Effect 3: N7 Collector's Edition in 2012. Its critic score of 66 is 10 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Mass Effect 2 at 96.
How it was received
Mass Effect 3: From Ashes holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points below the year average. Players rate it 75, 9 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Mass Effect 3: From Ashes launched on 6 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Kid Icarus: Uprising. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Kid Icarus: Uprising.
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We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mass Effect 3: From Ashes yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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