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Mass Effect 3: Leviathan

Something lurks in the dark corners of space, something powerful enough to kill a Reaper. Shepard must discover the most closely guarded secret in the galaxy before the Reapers silence it forever. Mass Effect…

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Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is a role-playing (rpg) developed by BioWare, released 28 August 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is

Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by BioWare and released in 2012. 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: Leviathan 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 on August 28, 2012, with a delayed release in Europe on the PS3 platform set for August 29, 2012. The pack follows Commander Shepard and the crew of the SSV Normandy SR-2 starship as they investigate the truth about the origins of the Reapers.
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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: Leviathan is the 29th of 48 entries we hold in the Mass Effect series. The next entry was The Final Hours of Mass Effect 3 in 2012. Its critic score of 78 is almost exactly 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: Leviathan holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 60 votes.

What it launched against

Mass Effect 3: Leviathan launched on 28 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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When did Mass Effect 3: Leviathan come out?
Mass Effect 3: Leviathan was released on 28 August 2012 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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