News – Mass Effect 3 Surprisingly Delayed Till 2012

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Fans eagerly awaiting the release of of the third and last Mass Effect in the trilogy will have to wait just a little bit longer&period; When it was first announced back in December of last year that Mass Effect 3 would hit stores during the holiday season of 2011 for the Xbox 360&comma; PS3&comma; and PC we were ecstatic&period; But we were stunned and surprised when we confirmed earlier yesterday that the game was delayed till 2012&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">The official quote came from Casey Hudson&comma; the Executive Director of the Mass Effect series during a discussion on the Bioware social forum where he stated poignantly&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Mass Effect 3 is now scheduled for the first three months of 2012&&num;8221&semi;&period;  He want on to say&comma; &&num;8220&semi;The Development team is laser focused on making sure Mass Effect 3 is the biggest&comma; boldest and best game in the series&comma; ensuring that it exceeds everyone&&num;8217&semi;s expectations&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Eurogamer revealed comments made by EA&&num;8217&semi;s CEO John Riccitiello at a recent conference call where he went into more detail on the upcoming release&period; He stated that the development team &&num;8220&semi;adjusted gameplay mechanics and some of the features&&num;8221&semi; to make Mass Effect 3 more like a cross between a shooter and RPG&period; He also stated that he thinks the game will out sell it&&num;8217&semi;s predecessors and gain a larger market share over all&period; Of course&comma; with news of a delay we&&num;8217&semi;ll have to wait a bit longer to test whether the CEO&&num;8217&semi;s predictions pan out or not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;05&sol;mass-effect-3&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2497" title&equals;"mass-effect-3" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;05&sol;mass-effect-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"480" height&equals;"234" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;