Mass Effect 3 - Interview @ Ten Ton Hammer

Ten Ton Hammer made an interview with ME3's associate producer Michael Gamble about ME3.  Topics include the deeper rpg experience in ME3, how the new story will be presented
in ME3 to new players, the system behind which weapons can be upgraded and more.

A few highlights:

TTH: The interactive comic for Mass Effect 2 allowed players to generate a new character based on the critical choices of the first Mass Effect, without having to play through the full first game. So that's something you're going to be doing with ME3 too then?

Michael Gamble: We’re looking at something. I don’t know if it’s going to be comic based or what, but we definitely understand that a lot of people haven’t played the first two.

TTH: When I was watching the demo yesterday I liked the fact that it looks familiar. There’s nothing that’s so new there that it would be like learning a whole new game for people who’ve played it before. Some things have changed though. Can we talk a little bit about what’s changed for the new game?

RPG systems and progressions, we’ve deepened that. Every power has a lot more customizability. You have multiple evolution options; six instead of two. And the weapons mods stuff obviously. Now all classes can use all weaponry, which is great. We’re expecting to see a lot more even usage of classes rather than everybody using Soldier because he has the coolest weapons. What you can do is customize your weapon based upon the mods that you pick up throughout the galaxy.

TTH: And the weapon upgrades are working a little bit differently now, I noticed. Can we go over how the upgrades are working?

Michael Gamble: All the weapons that are created are accessible to all classes. You find little mods and upgrades throughout the galaxy in various places. You might get a mission, you might buy them, and things like that.