More good news for fans of Mass Effect 3‘s multiplayer, and for those who felt that the online component of the game lacked a certain level of urgency, a possible remedy. The Earth DLC has finally arrived, bringing the fight against the Reaper abominations – or Geth, or Cerberus – to humanity’s home. A threat that massive requires a certain sense of gravity, and the official launch trailer has that covered.
While most weekends since the launch of Mass Effect 3 have brought a multiplayer event of one kind or another, including new character races and objectives, the Earth DLC is the largest to date. Six new character classes, three new stages on Earth itself, and a brand new ‘Platinum’ difficulty are just the dose of new content the game needed, and is available now for free.
Previously released character images and class details revealed that the new types would be modified models of Kai Leng, Kasumi Goto, and others. But the launch trailer shows that they are as committed to defending Earth as any red-blooded human. Complete with a pep talk courtesy of Admiral Anderson, this batch of operatives look prepared to impress through both action and appearance. And we haven’t even gotten to the new weapons and equipment.
The trailer puts previous expansions or multiplayer DLC to shame, actually trying to bridge the gap between multiplayer and the main campaign. It’s a wise move on BioWare‘s part, especially with many fans still criticizing the lack of a sense of grandeur in the game’s climactic missions. Seeing Shepard’s crew in an Avengers-esque reveal alongside Admiral Anderson in the thick of the battle would have been nice to see in the campaign, but multiplayer is better than nothing.
When the entire DLC is examined, it’s clear that BioWare had a much greater plan for keeping multiplayer fresh than simple weekend bonuses or perks. We’d like to think that new maps, weapons and classes are in store for the foreseeable future, but ME3‘s producer recently emphasized the team’s plans for singleplayer DLC, relegating multiplayer to a secondary concern.
Players can take the fight to the Reapers in Rio, Vancouver and London immediately, with the Mass Effect 3 Earth DLC available for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
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I’m not liking the rio map. Managed to unlock the N7 Destroyer & Demolisher.
Demolisher – Supply Pylon, Homing Grenade & Arc Grenades. Supply Pylon is alright, boosts shields and provides ammo over time. Homing Grenade seems powerful but it only seems to hit one target and is very slow. Most times I fire it at a target and someone else shoots & kills it before the homing grenade arrives. Arc Grendes we’ve already seen with the last class additions
Destroyer – aka Robocop – I forget what the abilities are called but you have a shoulder mounted missile which fires automatically once turned on. Another ability similar to adrenaline rush which is on all the time but impacts shield regen & movement speed while up. The last thing is a cluster grenade launcher on your wrist which shoots a spray of frag grenades.
Stealing ideas are we? 1:20 too similar to the Avengers
One thing I forgot to mention. Destroyer has 1000 base shields. Thats quite alot compared to what the human soldier has. They’ll probably be viable on Gold now where previously Soldier on Gold was cannon fodder.
lol George.
Managed to get N7 Fury on my 2nd N7 Package and DAM, thats adept can kick-ass!
Avengers-esque reveal alongside Admiral Anderson in the thick of the battle would have been nice to see in the campaign, but multiplayer
Great EVEN MORE playable characters for me not to get in packs and watch everyone else use
You have to take into consideration that many of the new classes have the exact same abilities as the original just with different graphics/titles. I personally use the original classes more so then the new ones. These days it seems 90% of the people play grenade spamming classes.
Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race.
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