The player / the player takes on the role of Commander Shepard, where you can choose between a male or female version.
- The visual appearance of the Commander is by skin color, facial features, eyes, hair, etc. freely modular.
- Selectable is whether Shepard is said to have special skills as an expert, technician, Guardians, Infiltrator, soldiers or frontline fighters. Each class has its tactical advantages and disadvantages.
- A fundamental option arises first of all: action mode (fight outweighs) Roleplaying (combat and conversation balanced) or story mode (the narrative predominates)?
For newcomers to the cosmos of the ME3 role-playing mode is perhaps the easiest and most interesting option. Because in addition to the fighting, it is also important, through skillful interviewing a reputation as Paragon (model) or Renegade acquire. This reputation in the one direction or another is decisive for the outcome of the game. Because to have against the Reaper only the spark of a chance, Commander Shepard has to drive across the galaxy planet, forge alliances, find scattered fleet units or procure artifacts.
Once Shepard has escaped the attack on Earth, he does / she and his / her team on the Normandy set off by the Milky Way. Again and again he encounters Reaper troops or to the terrorist movement Cerberus who do not shrink from people trying to get to Reapertechnologie. Shepard helps turians (humanoid lizards) in the battle for their homeworld Palaven, the krogan (remember war, two-legged toads) on Tuchanka, the exclusively female, blue-skinned Asari on Thessia or always masked Quarianern at the reconquest of their home Rannoch, where it in my opinion, one of the militant highlights are: when Shepard must fight over four rounds against a Reaper alone. In this duel comes anger and goosebumps on (after winning).
In all these adventures, the player / the player always has to steer more choices to the events. Because of these decisions die game characters or live on. Yes, it even comes to the existence or absence of whole species. ME3 is an Open World, in the many side quests are playable in addition to the main line.
What else struck me: A sideshow, namely the survival of biological quarians against them once created mechanical Geth can Battlestar Galactica resonate. The eerily powerful Reaper remember again the shadow of B5.
A linchpin is the Space Station Citadel, the Shepard often must visit. It is designed by the great graphics, there is even a disco on (once again what Babylon 5). As a special delicacy Shepard can develop romantic feelings for the other characters (optional hetero or homo). Here again: the right thing at the right moment to say!
The grand finale takes place after many battles across the galaxy back to earth place in the war-torn London. This last chapter is of the act and look a real feat. One lives with intense, a lot of emotion is free waiting anxiously to that end will take the galaxy because of their own choices made epic, epochal, simply good!