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Few games come with the amount of hype Mass Effect 3 has swirling around it. As the culmination of BioWare's epic sci-fi RPG trilogy, Mass Effect 3 hasn't garnered this groundswell in an artificial way. Rather, anticipation steadily sits at a fever pitch because the previous installments -- Mass Eff...

Welcome to the third and final update to IGN's Mass Effect 3 Review in Progress. During the first update, we discussed some preliminary thoughts on the game's first dozen hours. In the second update, we conducted a lengthy Q&A session using some of the best reader questions. And now, we will do some more Q&A-ing, as well as give you some final thoughts now that we sit on the precipice of finishing the game itself...

My deep love and admiration for the Mass Effect franchise is no secret. Exceptionally well-versed in the first two games in the series -- I wrote IGN's epic strategy guides for both -- Mass Effect 3 constitutes a sort of singular focus for me as I look forward to the games I'm anticipating most in 2012. I crave finality for Commander Shepard's galactic quest of monumental importance, and now that I finally have Mass Effect 3 in my hands, it appears that the resolution I seek rests close...

BioWare's Mass Effect sci-fi role-playing franchise is one of the best in video games, yet I admit it's had problems in the past, from technical issues on the Xbox 360 when it was first released to the endlessly irritating planet scanning mini-game in Mass Effect 2. Still, through all the flaws, I k...