Expected/10.
 
Lets hope the trailer sways me over.

I hope they make it way harder to make it through the game with everyone alive this time. I never really felt like anyone was in jeopardy in ME2.

You know I'm glad I'll be long gone before we start dealing with aliens and shit like this.

YESSSSSSS

As long as Tali and Kasumi are in the game it'll be alright in my book.

Is Commander Shepard an Alliance marine, a Spectre, a Cerberus operative, or some sort of force unto his own?
 
The answer is actually all of these.

Eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarth!

Paralyzed with excitement... ... ... ... <twitch>

Sounds like a good way to eventually have a movie tie-in. Earth is burning means more of a mass audience than the galaxy is burning.

Will have to model my Sheppard to look like Peter Garret now. 
"How do we dance while the earth is turning"
"How can we sleep when our beds are burning"

This is literally the greatest thing that's happened to me all week. Mass Effect is the best new franchise of this generation. Hands down.

Sweet, can't wait to go to High Tech New York.

I just shat and fucking came and fucking peed like fucking everywhere from excitement. OMG.

" @DG991: Multiplayer is a given at this point. "

I liked Mass Effect 2 quite a bit (GOTY!), so the idea of Mass Effect 3 sounds fantastic.

I bet they did this leak on purpose.  After all, they already showed that Mass Effect gun picture, confirming a new Mass Effect title.

We are, all of us, vermin. 
 
Cowering in the dirt, thinking.. what? that we might escape the coming fire? 
 
Our world will burn until the surface is but glass. 

Why is Shepard a marine again? Was being a specter just a temp job?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GOING TO EARRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ROADTRIP!!! My level of exictment for this game now just went through the roof. There is literally a hole in my roof right now.

" @Glak said:

" I hope the entire game doesn't revolve around taking back Earth, that would be sorta lame "

Maybe it's the second third or so? Was it ever said that Mass Effect was to be a trilogy? If so then the first third could be gathering forces, second taking back Earth, and the third being taking on the Reapers.  If all that happens in the third is just taking back Earth... well I guess it's WAY too early to speculate anyways so whatever. "

Been to multiple galaxies in the ME universe at this point -- Earth seems like a boring location now.

Well its a given that the Reapers would make a final assault on the galaxy...so what better place to take it than Earth - center of the universe :P

Oh man, Halo 3 is finally coming out???? 
 
In all seriousness though, this sounds way better than the bullshit story of ME2. I wanted something way bigger, and this sounds like it's exactly what ME should be about. Lets hope it's a little less full of loose and open ends.

FUCK .
 
YES.

Earth is where this story has to go.  I never thought of it before, but it makes perfect sense.  The Reapers are being held in check by (essentially) one human and a bunch of sidekicks.  Of course they would go to the source to try to kick humanity in the huevos. (That would be a great tagline for an alternate-continuity spinoff game where you play the evil side.  Mass Effect 3: REAPERS Edition - Kick Humanity In The Huevos!)

It only seems logical to be fighting the reapers directly in ME3.

I am totally excited for this game! I can't wait for it to be released!

So excited. Almost as excited as I am for Uncharted 3, and I am SUPER excited for Uncharted 3, so that is a big thing. This is probably the game that is tied with Uncharted as my favorite game series.

I just recently got into the ME games. I was late in playing them. I'm not even done with the 2nd one and I'm already excited for this one.

Sounds pretty interesting, I also do not really want multiplayer.

Every moment I dont see a trailer is a moment where I am sad

" We are, all of us, vermin.  Cowering in the dirt, thinking.. what? that we might escape the coming fire?  Our world will burn until the surface is but glass.  "

" Isn't this the third time robots have tried to take over the universe in Mass Effect? I loved ME2 but this is kind of disappointing to me. "

" I don't know if I like the Earth focus. ME's never been about saving the human race, it's been about the first real attempt at preservation of galactic civilization against the Reapers. Boo to human exceptionalism. "

I'm strangely unexcited about this, guess the the fact that I haven't been motivated to finish ME2 as something to do with it. 

"Every moment I dont see a trailer is a moment where I am sad "

• Why did Shepard choose to work with a known terrorist agency rather than the Citadel Council or the Alliance, two groups who Shepard knows are actually on his side?  Fun fact: the reason they deny Shepard is because he/she is working with Cerberus.  Whoops!  Should have asked them before teaming up with the outlaws, huh?  Fun fact 2: the Sole Survivor background states that Shepard's entire unit was wiped out by thresher maws in a Cerberus experiment, and left permanent psychological scars on him/her.  Quick to forgive I guess?

• Why does Shepard and crew leave the Normandy aboard the shuttle, especially when in every other situation Shepard only ever takes two people?  We're never given an explanation for it, ever.  But we get to play as Joker so we're not supposed to think about it, I guess.

• Why doesn't Shepard show the Council the derelict Reaper as evidence for their existence, or at least to rally support from the Alliance or even the common people?  You'd think that'd get them off their asses, but the option doesn't exist.

• What was the goal behind the plague on Omega?  It's never explained why the Collectors would want to generate anti-human sentiment.

• Why are the only options during the endgame to destroy the Collector ship or hand it to Cerberus?  There's no more threat from it - wouldn't turning it over to the Alliance or the Citadel be the ultimate proof of Shepard's deeds?  But meh, splosions are cool right?

• Why are the Collectors such a damned mystery?  You'd think there'd be way more security footage of them, emergency transmissions from terrified colonists, etc.  Don't the seeker swarms only work outdoors as well?  Where are all the survivors in underground complexes and stuff, like the mechanic guy you rescue?  It's pretty damn implausible that they're such an urban legend after decades.  Galactic espionage must be lagging behind.

• Why didn't Shepard send any probes into the Omega-4 relay to see if it was hostile before-hand?  Charging in blindly is a pretty awesome way to guarantee your suicide mission will be just that.

• Where did Mordin get the Collector bug from?  I guess he... what, created one from scratch through biological engineering?  Found one in the bathroom one morning?  Bought it from a pet store?  Cross-bred other species?

• How are Shepard and Friends able to identify the Collectors as ex-Protheans?  Even assuming their genetic structure was intact, there were no known remnants of Protheans beyond artifacts, and certainly no DNA, corpses or anything else.  There'd be nothing to compare the Collectors' genetics to.

• Why does Cerberus choose to resurrect Shepard?  It seems like a total waste to spend billions of credits on bringing Shepard back.  As capable as he/she is, Shepard is just one man/woman.  You could get a large mercenary army or a fleet of ships for that kind of cash, and considering the ambiguity of the Collector threat, it'd make a lot more sense to pick those over one extraordinary human soldier.  Not so much a plot hole so much as just Cerberus being stupid in order to justify the game's story.

• Why does Wilson (the guy who reprograms the security droids at the Cerberus base during the intro) choose to kill everyone?  He just spent years working on a miracle of modern medicine and the first thing he does is pull an extremely risky stunt for no explained reason?

• Carrying on from that, how was Shepard even resurrected?  After burning up in orbit there would be literally nothing left of him/her.  I guess it was for dramatic effect that he/she died that way, but it's still pretty unbelievable, and it all gets hand-waved with a bunch of techno-jargon.

• Why do Cerberus ships fly around with their logo proudly displayed on their wings?  Why do Cerberus uniforms have the group's logo?  Aren't they known terrorists?  Doesn't seem very discrete, but I guess The Illusive Man knew that nobody would take note that the super-advanced prototype stealth cruiser was flying the Jolly Roger.

• What's the deal with the Collector controller guy?  Not really a plot hole, but he appears in cutscenes and it's implied he has some link to Shepard.  Sounds like a story idea that was dropped late in production due to lack of time, otherwise there'd be no reason for it to be there.

YESSSSS

Final mission...