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Warning~ If you have not played Mass Effect 3 yet and/or have not beaten it yet then you might not want to be here


I was finally able to play Mass Effect 3 after I got my computer back from the repair shop and I couldn't help but to stay up late and play it.

Now when I first started the game I was happily pleased to find that I could simply start a new game with my imported save game without having to go into the settings and physically telling the game to import the game like I had to do with Mass Effect 2. Though I wasn't happy that when I picked to import my character I had to re-customize the face because the face did not import for some reason.

On to the actual game play ~ The game play was simply ( for lack of a better term ) amazing. The weapon customization was fantastic yet I was a little disappointed with the lack of options in which I was able to up grade each weapon with and the fact that you are no longer able to carry a heavy weapon with you. The weapon selection was vast but I was often conflicted with what weapon load out I was going to use.

I was also less then pleased to find out that I didn't have the same crew from Mass Effect 2... Granted Garrus was still there and I was able to have Liara and Tali but I didn't have Grunt nor did I have Maranda, Samara, Jacob, ect. The old team was gone and in its place I was given a team of weaklings... None of the teammates I could choose from could survive long in a firefight and Garrus had seemed to lose his ability to shoot anything... This whole thing just kinda irritated me because of all the work I did in ME2 to make sure everyone survived in the end... Now you do get to meet up with your old teammates and some of them even decide to help you but not on board the Normandy.

Even with the issue with the teammates I still enjoyed playing the game and all the little side quests to increase my Effective Military Strength ( EMS ) ... Yet... The last 10 minutes of the game... It was just painful.

You had to choose between 3 possible endings. Each of which where unaffected by the choices I had made throughout the trilogy.

One ending was to control the reapers, But in turn Shepard would die and all the mass relays would be destroyed as well

Second ending was to destroy the reapers but in turn you would also destroy all synthetic life as in the Geth and other such synthetics including Shepard and then the mass relays would be destroyed.

THe third and final ending would to choose to merge both organic and synthetic life together but it would kill Shepard in the process and yet again the mass relays would be destroyed.

Now... I understand that Bioware wanted a conclusion to the story but the thing was that they claimed that depending on your actions throughout the trilogy the ending would be different so there would be countless ending possibilities. The three endings they gave us felt to me like a big "F~ you" ... I had high hopes for ME3 but the endings ruined it.

Now heres the question.

How did you feel about ME3 and will you play the trilogy again?