Mass Effect 3 looks to be either one of the best video games of the year, or a huge pyre to burn up all the goodwill BioWare has earned from the previous entries in the series. Who can tell? To help tilt the odds in their favor, the studio is offering rewards for pre-orders, because money in the bank is way better than numbers on a financial projections report. Something about guns, lots of guns? GameSpot has the story.
The Reapers are right. Immigrating an entire galactic populace into your hundred-million year old hypertech utopia is a tricky business, and sadly, it has to be done by force. If even a small chunk of the present galactic community refuses your call, they’ll be able to take over the stars and eat up all the resources, just like those Protheans did. Maybe they’ll develop weapons capable of blowing big holes in the stellar landscape, like that railgun that knocked a scar through a planet. Either way, if anyone is left behind, the galaxy won’t be suitable for new races to rise up.
So, reaping. Harvesting. And hundreds of billions of people wake up as new members of a culture that has endured and grown for hundreds of millions of years.