#MASS EFFECT 3 SCANNER MODS#

This change once again serves to make the world feel a little less rich and unique. However, the environments are as linear as ever, and the planet scanning (and resource gathering) has been removed for the ability to scan in the vicinity of a planet with a single button. Weapons in general are handled a lot better in this iteration- other than having a lot of customization choices, you can also change your loadout mid mission when you pick up a new weapon.

#MASS EFFECT 3 SCANNER MODS#

While the inventory isnвЂ™t fully back, there are items in terms of weapons, armor parts and weapon mods that you can pick up around environments. Gone are the вЂњMission CompletedвЂќ screens which made Mass Effect 2 feel a little more like Doom, a game split into levels, than the incredible and expansive Action RPG that it really was. Mass Effect 3 tries to correct a few of the missteps from Mass Effect 2. This worrying trend of BioWare reducing the scope of their games instead of fixing problematic issues continued further with Dragon Age 2- a game which was widely panned by most fans of previous BioWare games. The lack of inventory and exploration made the game world feel shallow to me, despite the otherwise excellent quality of Mass Effect 2. But instead of fixing some of the complaints about the exploration being repetitive, the inventory being cumbersome or getting lost in city hubs like the Citadel, BioWare ended up almost cutting out those parts of the game entirely.

To BioWareвЂ™s credit, they fixed the combat in Mass Effect 2 by taking it the level of play youвЂ™d expect from a third person shooter like Gears of War.

The game also had a cumbersome Inventory system which required you to spend several minutes at a time discarding items youвЂ™ve picked up that you didnвЂ™t need if you entered the Inventory screen when you were carrying too many items, and wouldnвЂ™t let you quit until doing so. It gave the illusion that you were playing a shooter but when you were clearly aiming at an enemy with a sniper rifle and completely missed due to a low accuracy skill, it was a frustrating experience. The combat which was heavily reliant on dice rolls and cool downs, which worked in KOTOR, didnвЂ™t feel as well suited for Mass Effect however due to characters using guns. That being said, they dialed back the conversation system such that you knew that your choice was вЂњParagonвЂќ or вЂњRenegadeвЂќ before you even chose it, something which heavily influenced me to not think about my conversation choices and always made me want to do the вЂњParagonвЂќ choice.

The first Mass Effect refined on this formula by allowing you to explore the surfaces of multiple planets, and having a few cities which were sprawling hubs. My history with BioWare games goes back to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic which I absolutely loved for its conversation system (one which didnвЂ™t clearly let you know if the person youвЂ™re talking to would take well to your suggestion or not) the several worlds that you could visit which each had their own feeling of place. Going into playing Mass Effect 3, I was very worried about what BioWare could do to one of my favourite franchises in recent years.

Mass effect 3 scanner