Mass Effect 3 is it Hype ?

The Mass Hype Effect

As an avid gamer myself I have a really like for virtually each genre and think games to be the next driving force in story telling and art but among all games I have a unique fondness of Bioware’s sci-fi epic Mass Impact. The Mass impact series has spanned two games and a collection of novels, but now the third and perhaps final Mass Effect game is to be released in Europe tomorrow and in the calm before the storm I myself have fallen prey to the immense hype surrounding the title.

 Hype by its extremely nature tends to make our expectations ridiculously high and almost impossible to meet Games like Duke Nukem Forever and Dragon Age two are textbook examples from final year of games that failed to meet the ridiculous hype from fans, to this end I ask now that the first reviews of Mass Effect 3 come in is it attainable that our expectations have not been met? Immediately after all Dragon Age was yet another Bioware game and had a quite productive predecessor, as is the case of the Mass Impact series.

 My hope is that Bioware succeed in pleasing us and deliver another Sci-Fi masterpiece but the demo was met with some mixed reactions from fans, the multiplayer was nicely received but the dilemma lay with the single player samples of the demo the 1st mission was presumably the quite very first component of the actual campaign and featured the invasion of Earth by the galaxy-ending machine race recognized as the Reapers, the mission was properly produced and played smoothly even though amazing battles raged in the distance between gigantic Reapers and Human spaceships, all lead to the protagonist Commander Shepard escaping Earth in a tearful cut scene.

 All was great so far but the second sample mission took Shepard to an alien planet to collect allies and the sweeping scale of the Reaper invasion was lowered to normal corridor shooting mixed with predictable ambush points then climaxed with an below whelming battle with a Mech.

This mission coupled with some unfavorable evaluations I’ve read combined with the failure of Dragon Age and the enormous hype gathering force has planted doubt in my thoughts. I can only hope that I am wrong simply because I nevertheless have faith in Bioware to deliver, I’ve observed them do it time and time once more, all we can do is wait till tomorrow and play it for ourselves.