Mass Effect 3: Special Edition
Mass Effect 3 plunges you into an all-out galactic war to take Earth back from a nearly unstoppable foe – and how you fight that war is entirely up to you. Groundbreaking interactive storytelling drives the…
Mass Effect 3: Special Edition is an adventure developed by BioWare, released 18 November 2012 on Wii U.
What Mass Effect 3: Special Edition is
Mass Effect 3: Special Edition is an adventure game developed by BioWare and released in 2012. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Wii U only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mass Effect 3 is a 2012 action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The third major entry in the Mass Effect series and the final installment of the original trilogy, it was released in March 2012 for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. A Wii U version of the game, entitled Mass Effect 3: Special Edition, was later released as a launch title on November 18, 2012, which notably supported Nintendo Network connection features for multiplayer interaction. The game is set within the Milky Way galaxy in 2186, where galactic civilization is invaded by a very advanced machine race of synthetic-organic starships known as Reapers.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
Where it sits in the Mass Effect series
Mass Effect 3: Special Edition is the 33rd of 48 entries we hold in the Mass Effect series. The next entry was Mass Effect 2: Ultimate Edition in 2012. Its critic score of 87 is 11 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Mass Effect 2 at 96.
How it was received
Mass Effect 3: Special Edition holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Mass Effect 3: Special Edition launched on 18 November 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4, Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mass Effect 3: Special Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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