{"id":12423,"date":"2011-06-17T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-mass-effect-3-features-a-4-player-co-op-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12423-rumour-control-mass-effect-3-features-a-4-player-co-op-mode","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Mass Effect 3 features a 4-player co-op mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-06-16-four-player-co-op-for-mass-effect-3\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>&rsquo;s deep cover industry spies are reporting that Mass Effect 3 is set to include some sort of four-player co-op mode, separate from the single-player campaign. According to secret intel exchanges, the mode will feature &ldquo;competitive elements&rdquo;, and may or may not be a wave-based, Horde-style mode.<\/p>\n<p>Another source is claiming that a &ldquo;multiplayer Mass Effect experience&rdquo; is in development over at BioWare Montreal, but it&rsquo;s not yet clear whether it&rsquo;s a component of Mass Effect 3 or a completely new title.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/307597\/news\/mass-effect-3-multiplayer-is-real-based-on-original-online-missions\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a>&rsquo;s own stealth operatives are claiming the multiplayer comprises &ldquo;original missions made for online&rdquo;, and will be included with Mass Effect 3.<\/p>\n<p>Asked at E3 if Mass Effect 3 would feature multiplayer, BioWare&rsquo;s Ray Muzyka was diplomatically evasive.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We haven&#8217;t talked at all about multiplayer in the Mass Effect franchise, but we&#8217;re exploring multiplayer in all of our games and all of our franchises,&#8221; he said, not really answering the question at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always an idea we&#8217;re interested in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The short answer is we have no comment on that. But we&#8217;re interested in the idea of multiplayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mmmm. File this one under &ldquo;Pretty likely&rdquo; for now then.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14807-Mass-Effect-3-four-way-co-op-rumoured?p=459211#post459211\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Mass Effect 3<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate from single-player campaign, that is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423","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=12423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}