Mass Effect 3 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

The Mass Effect trilogy is by far the best trilogy of this generation. Mass Effect 3 should have been a culmination of everything that you have done since ME1, except at least for me the ending ruins it. I could easily of given this game a 10/10 and would have before reaching the conclusion. The game play is amazing, controls are excellent, and the story is simply the most engaging and emotional story for any game I have played. However the endings are a severe disappointment for me, and most people because BW pretty much throws out all of the decisions that you have made, and everything done for all 3 games in the span of 10 minutes. If you have read any of the statements from BW employees regarding this game and the Ending then do yourself a favor and don't play it, because much of what we were told was a lie essentially giving us the exact opposite of what was said. For example Casey Hudson said that "the endings would vary widely, that since this is the last game in the Shepard storyline that not everyone would get the same exact end cause there is nothing they have to tie up for another game, also that the endings would be much like ME2 but more complex and that you wouldn't be able to say that you got ending A, B, or C." Without spoiling to much of the game or ending I will say that the end does indeed come down to choosing either A, B or C, and that there is very little variance in what happens after choosing. It's highly disappointing to see that almost nothing done in the games matter at the end, and that they ended up giving everyone the exact same scenes etc... So regardless of your choices, all 3 ends force major things to happen. They also broke from their great storytelling and gave every character you've known over the trilogy a complete personality change in the last few minutes, to me it feels like this was done to make the endings work, but good storytelling fits the story to the characters, the opposite of what they did at the end.