{"id":12219,"date":"2011-06-07T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"e3-rumour-mill-mass-effect-3-multiplayer-to-be-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12219-e3-rumour-mill-mass-effect-3-multiplayer-to-be-announced","title":{"rendered":"E3 rumour mill: Mass Effect 3 multiplayer to be announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest rumour to emanate from the might halls of E3 2011 is that Bioware is gearing up to announce a multiplayer component for Mass Effect 3, which is due for release on 6 March 2012.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Counting towards the legitimacy of the rumour is a report from <a href=\"http:\/\/tbreak.com\/megamers\/29135\/news\/e3-11-exclusive-first-mass-effect-3-multiplayer-details\/\" target=\"_blank\">megamers <\/a>(Middle East gamers) claiming that a reliable source at E3 told them that Bioware will announce multiplayer for Mass Effect 3 towards the end of 2011.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there will be a horde style co-op multiplayer mode with a variety of maps to choose from. There will also be traditional competitive multiplayer game modes, including Deathmatch and Capture the Flag.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Players will apparently be able to choose between 6 different classes, and there will be a level cap of 60. There will also reportedly be a multiplayer store where players will be able to buy upgrades for weapons etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The source claims that the multiplayer compontent is still in the early stages of development, which supposedly explains why Bioware has said nothing yet.<\/p>\n<p>With or without multiplayer, Mass Effect 3 is being released on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on 6 March, 2012.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14469-Rumour-Mass-Effect-3-will-have-multiplayer?p=451403#post451403\" target=\"_self\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Discuss Mass Effect 3<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in the forums<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word on the showroom floor is that Mass Effect will offer online multiplayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}