If you were smart enough to DVR Spike’s Video Game Award ceremony last night, you skipped right through all the painful banter straight to the gravy: namely, the first looks at Uncharted 3, Forza 4, Prototype 2, Elder Scrolls V (!), and Guillermo del Toro’s Insane. And, of course, Mass Effect 3.
Bioware fooled approximately no one when it released the sneak peek of a Sniper carrying an Incisor rifle last month, but the EA store’s accidental outing of Mass Effect 3 sealed it. Here’s the announcement video, courtesy of Gametrailers:
And here’s the copy from EA’s Mass Effect 3 listing, which hints at Shepard’s first return to Earth since taking command of the Normandy:
“Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.”
How is Shepard supposed to hit on Kelly Chambers, resolve permit disputes, and gag-probe Uranus when Earth is under assault? London can wait, I say. Everybody plan one more Mass Effect run-through to align with the trilogy capper’s holiday 2011 release.
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That award show was fucking awful, but in a trainwreck sort of way, where it was hard to stop watching, Between the rent-a-crowd that didn't know how to react to anything, the video game jokes that weren't funny, the pain on the faces of the mainstream celebrities that were just sticking to the script and didn't know what they were talking to, and the tech guys that were winning awards that were oblivious to the fact that no one knew who they were and that these were not real awards, it was a clusterfuck. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to broadcast live, as it surely would have benefited from some canned audience reactions.
I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions.
I have to say I'm a bit… disappointed. I don't give a shit about the Earth. I'd rather just let all the Reapers converge on the planet and then destroy the planet.
You monster
Yeah, that was a brutal show to sit through, to be sure. And frankly, none of those "game anouncements" surprized anyone. Give me a release date for Halo 4 or Hitman 5 and I'll be excited, but knowing that Del Toro is "working" on a game coming out in 2013 is not that thrilling an anouncement. They might want to consider holding next year's event at a smaller venue (with actual fanboys in the audience). You could hear people yawning at home it was so quiet.
Earth has been hinted at as being a shithole in the previous games. Defending mankind is what the entire series has been about. Why would they be making a "human reaper" in the last game unless Earth was going to be attacked?
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