{"id":31737,"date":"2012-01-31T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31737"},"modified":"2012-01-31T12:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T10:18:57","slug":"mass-effect-3s-insanity-mode-is-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31737-mass-effect-3s-insanity-mode-is-insane","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3’s Insanity Mode is insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nuh-uh-uh<\/em>, you won’t be able to squat behind a cinderblock and let everybody else do the hard work for you in Mass Effect 3’s Hardcore and Insanity difficulty modes, Commander Shepard. Not this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really thought about it hard. On Normal you\u2019ll be able to power your way through the game or shoot your way through the game, but when you try Hardcore or Insanity, you\u2019re not going to be able to do that any more,\u201d lead designer Preston Watamaniuk told OXM.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really will have to think about each combat, who the enemies are, what kind of resistance you\u2019re presented with, and then strategise to take them down. I\u2019m hoping that it\u2019ll feel like you made a mistake, and the game called you on it, rather than \u2018I thought I was playing well, and then I died\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to make it so that it just feels like if you\u2019re working the problem, using all your squad, all your powers, picking the right guns, you\u2019re going to get through that combat. It\u2019s not going to be \u2018I sat in cover and popped out five or six times to use powers and stuff’.”<\/p>\n

So expect to get red-pasted a whole lot unless you really know exactly what you’re doing with your combat powers, and doing it a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll notice that if you play on Insanity, that sort of general rule of thumb is even harsher. You\u2019d better be doing everything well, or you\u2019ll die,\u201d Watamaniuk explained.<\/p>\n

Nobody said saving the universe was going to be easy.<\/p>\n

Mass Effect 3 is out on PC<\/a>, Xbox<\/a>, and PS3<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

Source: OXM<\/a><\/h5>\n

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