The Most Underrated Multiplayer in a Decade | Mass Effect 3 MP 

Check out - AdamandEve.com. Code: BRICKY. 50% Off 1 Item + Free Shipping in the US & Canada I've wanted to make a video on ME3 MP for a while now. Snagging an Adam and Eve sponsorship is just that icing on the cake. This is one of my favorite multiplayers and one that I would call the most underrated of the decade without exaggeration. I truly hope the remaster brings it back.

Can’t believe this guy actually took the Adam and Eve sponsorship, true legend

Thank you for this trip down memory lane. As much as I've criticized Bioware for their over reliance on high-health, high-damage enemies for tension, you make a great point on the enemy variety and how much the variety in player characters helped this multiplayer feel unique despite what's laid out on paper. I think for Mass Effect fans, it was special being able to show the universe in a way that wouldn't be possible in Campaign. Does an unpossessed Collector shooting alongside a Geth, helping their Teleporting Poison Turion and Biotic Hammering Krogan make sense? Not really. Is it awesome? Hell yes!

Just remember, you could play as an Awakened Collector in multiplayer. You know, a Collector who broke free from Harbinger, remembers their memories as a Prothean and now hunts down the Reapers using advanced Reaper biotics? Fucking awesome.

Everybody, if you loved ME3’s MP, Bioware has said that if support and demand for the MP is high enough, they will bring it to the Legendary Edition. Supporting, commenting, liking videos like this will certainly help.

I miss this so much

Little story: My brothers and I call the Krogan charge 'the Steve' One time we were playing and had a random who played a Krogan, and he never ONCE fired his gun. This man's name was ScubaStevexx. He would run around the map finishing off most of our kills with the Krogan charge, and so we kept saying that they got Steve's and would yell 'Scuba Steve, damn you!' while laughing our asses off. After that match we all played Krogans and ran around the map 'Steveing' people, and it holds true to this day.

Ah memories. Getting all the customization options for the N7 Shadow, coloring her like a Cerberus Phantom, then giving my teammates a nice jumpscare by "attacking" them from behind, making it seem like it was an actual Phantom.

This multiplayer mode was such a pleasure to work on. Definitely the highlight of my career so far. We had a passionate team that loved playing it daily and iterating and polishing it. I was so sad when we shipped our last DLC.

When my best mate got a Geth Prime and I a Volus within basically minutes of one another, we knew what'd happened. And so began the adventures of 'Supergeth & Volus Boy'; operating from our "secret base" - FIREBASE RIO'S BOX

Geth Juggernaut playstyle in a nutshell >stand on corridor >hold heavy melee >S U C C >never die

It’s so disappointing the remasters aren’t doing anything with this. EA is completely missing out on a money making machine by not including this in them. No coop has ever scratched the itch like this did

"Krogan Warlord because Bonk" Best line ever

Mass effects 3's multiplayer had no right being as fantastic as it was and it's just another reason why I miss this series so much

_[Walking into Adam & Eve]_ Commander Shepard: *_"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel."_*

I'm actually shocked I found a video, a popular video no less, talking about ME3's Multiplayer and it's by someone who actually knows what he's talking about. As soon as you mentioned the Reegar Carbine and then later the Cerberus Harrier being the most broken things in the galaxy I knew that you've spent some time in the MP lol.

I've put more time into this than any other MP shooter. Absolutely classic.

Ah yes, I remember spamming 'nades as the N7 Demolisher like it was yesterday... Seriously though, if Bioware released an updated, modern, standalone version of ME3's multiplayer, I'd buy the sh*t out of it in a heartbeat.

This was a fun trip down memory lane for me. Thanks for this video. I worked on ME2 and 3, and was part of the MP team through all 5 DLCs. Multiplayer for us was a total labour of love and will always be a high point in my games career.

One of most proud moments in gaming was when I finally was able to make it to extraction in platinum solo. Man, the memories.

Man, them not bringing this into legendary edition was a crime.

35:37 I was really hoping you were gonna call the volus a “biotic god”.

I loved playing this game with my Krogan warlord. I imagined that he’s that one krogan that wanted a fish from the citadel and he’s doing these missions for rarer species of fish he can eat.

This mode was a healing salve on my young traumatized mind in the wake of that absolutely soul shattering ending. I liked it because besides being a genuinely very fun mode, it was a canon/lore friendly mode where you could imagine being one of the 1000’s of elite teams or ragtag groups who fought the reaper threat. Back when the still had an imagination this allowed me to engage in light role playing with my characters and teams I built and grew.

It was hands down the BEST multiplayer experience I've ever had. And I've been chasing that high ever since... *Sighs* good times

Yo, I was ADDICTED to ME3 multiplayer when it had come out. Me and my friends played it an obscene amount.

Volus vanguard with Baterian gauntlet, hits enemies in the nuts so hard it makes their heads explode

Like how in the hell was they able to have such a crazy production for this MP. This has to be one of the best "horde" mode games that others just failed with all their shiny and gimmicks.

As a game developer, I found your analysis incredibly insightful! Great content, just subscribed :)

ME3 MP slapped so fucking hard, even towards the end of that game when they added the Geth Juggernaut and shit like that. So much fun. EDIT: I don't recall the map, but on Platinum you could take 2 Geth Juggernauts and 2 of the Volus that gave shields. The Juggernauts could sit outside a crate that the big enemies couldn't get into, and the Volus would chill in there buffing, and you just spammed heavy melee on the Juggernauts because it drained the target and gave shields. That, with the damage reduction from the little missiles the Juggernauts could shoot, made Platinum wins super free.

I'm not gonna lie, I love each time you talk about mass effect, especially me3's multiplayer as it is something I have played a decent amount of. Regardless of personal biases, keep playing the games and making content you like; I think I speak for most of the community when I say that you make anything entertaining to watch.

It needs to be added to the legendary edition so badly, I loved this epic horde mode type mp.

35:32 Oh man. The memories. "You're up against the wall and I. AM THE FUCKING WALL!"

LMAO! I remember a high school friend saying he dated this hot girl name Liara during sophomore year (said she was super hot) of course she went to a different school but he would show text messages he would receive so then we started to believe him and like 5 months later I randomly asked for her last name during lunch and he said "T'suni (or however you spell it)" and he looked at me with great fear. I told him never heard of her must be one of those kids that go to that rich school. He never brought her up again whenever he was with me. Few months later I saw mass effect 2 for sale and got it and saw that name... it clicked that he thought I knew who she was, which was a fake. Next day I went up to him and said "Bro your girl is a illegal immigrant" he paused and started to laugh. I kept it a secret ever since not to expose him like that. If you are reading this Anthony, I was a real one

That Banshee scream stills haunts me to this day.

Not only is the multiplayer still very good, but it's active enough to still meet new players. Hell, the N7Squad Discord channel has produced some of the absolute best multiplayer gaming moments of my life.

This video is incredible! By the way, Mass Effect 3 multiplayer is still alive and well in 2021 for anyone who's curious. I get instant queues most nights in NA on PC.

Ah yes the *trilogy* nothing ever happened after that *trilogy* we should ever talk about

What I always loved about this multiplayer was having a ton of characters to level up and improve.

Unique (free) DLC characters and awesome combat system made this mode really great. I still play it with my friend from time to time.

Krogan warlord gameplay in a nutshell: *boom* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I got into the ME Trilogy a few years after it finished up, and I absolutely loved going through it. When I got to ME3, and discovered that if I wanted to get the best ending, I had to play MP, I was kind of pissed at having to do something additional to make the ending as good as I could. But then I played MP, and I fell in love with it, so much so that I kept playing it even after my galaxy readiness was 100%, and eventually had to tear myself away from it to finish ME3 the first time. Basically, thanks for making this video, as I adore ME3's MP, and I'm glad to see a video dedicated to it!

I spent no money on this game and unlocked everything, it was just such a fun experience with my friends.

I still remember playing the $hit out of this during High School on the 360 baby!! I'm super surprised that someone on RU-vid is giving this MP masterpiece some love. Thank you, now I have to go play this again :)

I love how everytime this man discusses something, he is always so passionate about it ahead of time.

Geth Juggernaut and spamming melee will never get old.

ive spent many hours in this MP mode than the game story knowing its not gonna be on legendary edition really sad

I greatly enjoyed Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer. My favorites were the Awakened Collector, N7 Destroyer, and the N7 Vanguard. I still love the Turian Soldier equipped with the Phaeston and a Mantis Sniper Rifle sitting and head-shotting enemies for hours. I know there were better rifles, but the single shot, headshot kill was incredibly fun.

I'm hoping that the rumored "Legendary" Mass Effect Trilogy remaster can revive this.

I played this with my father. I'd play one match, he would play the other and so on. Some of my best memories.

Thanks for the intense work you did in making this thorough analysis. I totally agree that its the variety that the game offers that made it so succeful. My brother and I really missed this game and had such a blast collecting the guns like the Falcon (projectile bounce grenade launcher) and the Javelin (geth sniper rifle whose bullets pierce through walls). Man I can't believe the community is still alive!

I have SO MANY fun memories of playing this with my high school friends. We started playing from when the beta was active. I remember using the missle glitch for the highest difficulties. Standing as the last alive trying to survive the wave, pulling a clutch win with one of the turian operators. Thank you for this video!

I’m just here to say that when I was trying to go for a renegade playthrough, Tali made me break and I chose the Paragon prompt. Tali is best girl, cutest fuckin being in the galaxy, and I may have experienced some...interesting feelings when she said “I want to feel your skin on my skin.”

Hands down my favorite multiplayer game of all time. The free content they added over time was tremendous. I loved just about every class they added and enjoyed learning them all. Got my money worth for the game in single player but played it so many more hours in this. Coop multiplayer done well is my favorite.

I really do hope they put the MP into legendary edition at some point. I would happily unlock everything again

People forget that we had helldivers 2 years ago and it was this. People couldn’t appreciate how good they had it.

I feel like there is one minor mistake in this video: Enemies can't instant-kill you if you SMASH THEM TO PIECES WITH A ROCKET POWERED FLAME HAMMER FIRST. Jokes aside though, I never understood why so many people talked shit about ME3's multiplayer. It was so awesome.

I still love how some decisions from Mass Effect 1 can affect events from Mass Effect 3 in massive ways. I remember beating all 3 just to keep both the Geth and the Quarians alive lol worth it tho Legion is a beast

This was such an amazing online multiplayer mode. This has to be in the new Mass Effect Legendary Edition if not for ME3 campaign just to be there. This was so fun and intense. I'd play another 500 hours of this.

Hey bricky.. . Great video! I watched the video last night and I remember I got mass effect Andromeda in my collection so I booted it up and played the multiplayer. It's just like the multiplayer from mass effect 3 and I love it.. Been playing till 4 am and find people on the regular so maybe you gave it a shot to? Grts man

As someone who put 100s of hours into this. Don't play the Banshee noise. Don't. Please...

ahhh the joy of having a maxed out krogan warlord unlimited regen you can solo levels with that, it was great!

Bro you brought back so many memories. Me and my friends would role play the N7 characters as like an elite spec ops squad. Me tanking as the fucking N7 destroyer with a big ass Revenant is some of the most fun and tense moments I've had playing video games.

This was my favorite coop multiplayer I spent thousands of hours playing it with friends and breaking my TV's speakers with the massive amout of biotic explosions that you could do

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer had me feeling some type of way back in 2012, it still makes me feel some type of way now.

I’m so glad ME3’s multiplayer is finally getting the recognition it deserves. God bless the Brickmeister.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I used to use the Talon Mercenary a lot, just bow attacks constantly

18:13 I haven’t played Mass Effect 3 in _years_ but that sound... that sound awakened a fight or flight reflex I forgot that I had

This made me want to reinstall Mass Effect 3 to play the multiplayer

It's sooooooooo good to hear people praise and talk about ME, especially the multiplayer which I consistently play even today. Username: FracturedHorizon.

I do have fond memories of grinding this game. Not just for the the gameplay but also the community. Mics or no, everyone was actually playing to win and being cooperative. So much fun

Petition for getting this into the reimagined trilogy I don’t think it is

Got so many fond memories playing as an Asari Justicar dropping that shield bubble and setting off detonations all day

To anyone who decides to get into mass effect 3 multiplayer, if you play on PC (Which I would strongly recommend) you can open the command console by pressing "~" and enter the following "Unlockallmpkits Grantmpcredits 150000000" To unlock all characters and give yourself a shitload of credits to unlock guns. EA does not and cannot ban you for this and it makes the game infinitely more interesting. Asari Justicar Gang btw

Omg this is so well done! I was really glad you gave the ME3 climax feeling the credit it deserves. And the MP explanation really flows great. Still playing this MP today. Actually never have played a different MP game. Edit1: Ok I'm at 29:50 right after the Volus part. I don't remember to see or here something what I would so throuroughtly agreed with. Great feeling.

I miss this Multiplayer like crazy. Everything was spot on great review! The only thing I would say is the A button did EVERYTHING. In and out of cover, dodging, revives, etc. It gets you killed sometimes lol

5:14 "The Adept doesn't heal a sandworm" *Dune disliked this

I sunk 100's of hours into this multiplayer, best childhood memories.

Soooo many fond memories. I loved using my handheld shotgun moded with a concentrated pellet spread mod to shoot through the narrow eye slit on the cerberus shields. Easy head shot.

I miss this multiplayer so much. I played it for almost two straight years, long after I finished the main game. I had a distinct build/ammo/weapon setup for every single class, every class was viable to a point (though some way more than others but that's just how it is.), and what I loved is that there was legitimate tech in the MP. From knowing just how to take full advantage of priming and what ammo to take, to the many hidden techs like the many cancels; animation cancels, reload cancels (especially Claymore), Nova cancel. The Geth Shotgun double shot, to name a few tricks. It walked this fine line between stable and broken that allowed it to function well (eventually, when they at least fixed the infamous Vangaurd glitch.) but was broken *just* enough for there to be cool tricks you could do. It was so much fun, something I've found myself having to both tell and convince people of over the years. Many sing its praises but just as many completely wrote it off and ignorantly continue to write it off, having completely missed out on it. I remember when Andromeda came out later, I didn't even try the single player first, I went straight to its MP because I wanted lightning to strike twice. Unfortunately like the rest of the package though, it didn't hold a candle to the ME3MP.

Memories of running turrian ghostwith my Cerberus harrier on platinum , almost losing in extraction because the whole team was wiped out by reapers on the final round on that fucking Brasil map.

That may have been the best sponsorship opening I've ever seen. I actually laughed so hard I started coughing.

Every bit of information in this video sprung myriads of snapshots from my ME3 sessions back in the day. What. A. Game. Thanks for the nostalgia Bricky☺️

25:55 I LOVED playing as that batarian character, that net ability was CASH

Dude. Thank you. This video brought back some great memories with my friends. I really hope that the remaster has that multiplayer

I missed the shiny forehead of this absolute Chad. Ps: I love the doggo

Watching a video like this and hearing things about weekly updates and a genuine love of the game and attempt to make it better by the devs makes me feel like this is an archaeological dig and we are digging up relics of a past golden age long gone

Here a D&D class analogy to the ME3 classes: Adept - Sorcerer (they are born or made to be cool) Techs - Wizard (they learn how to be cool) Soldier - Fighter (they have weapons that are cool) Sentinel - Ranger (they can enhance themselves a ton, which makes them cool) Infiltrators - Rogue (they cloak and crit you for all of your health in one shot which is pretty cool) Vanguard - Berserker/Bard (they enhance themselves to hurt you so much that you beg them for mercy, which is pretty cool)

"Now I know you've seen these characters on a Different site before." Me: "check my browser history"

Can I just say that the smile Bricky has whenever he makes that harbinger pun is kinda wholesome

I had no idea how cool most ME3 characters were or how to use my sentinel in the single player story until I got into the MP. Only through MP did I really learn how to play, and I am still amazed at the designed synergies possible between players. Like when setting up combo primers for players with combo detonators, cooperation is rewarded maybe necessary. I loved N7 Fury boom boom boom boom boom! LOL Not many games allow you to headbutt enemies from across the map, apply a stagger while regaining shields (vanguard). So many cool ways to play.

Great video that covered so many of the reasons why I loved this "tacked on" multiplayer, it truly did surprise everyone with just how good it was. The multiplayer really was a hidden gem that I somehow managed to put 700+ hours into without even realizing it. Just being able to play as the different characters, it being co-op instead of pvp like every single shooter out there, being able to have fun with all the different builds and weapon combinations you could come up with, the accidental team synergy you'd wind up having with random people without being in voice or really trying, biotic explosions, etc. Just an incredible co-op experience and having the companion website and being able to unlock the challenges and name plates was also a really cool feature. It was just so in depth and fun to play, which is what made Andromeda feel so much worse because they seemed like they didn't know how to carry that over to Andromeda's multiplayer. I never found the monetization to be that bad and in all honesty if you knew how to manipulate the packs(buy all recruit packs until you got the recruit level weapons to "X" etc.) you could actually set it up so you'd be sure to get decent gear as you moved up in pack level. I never really spent anything and found it pretty easy to get decent gear and a couple of characters just by making sure I was playing the system by maxing out the gear/guns in recruit packs before moving on to the next level and repeating the process.

Id played this for 2 years straight probably longer. Nostalgia ensued

Me : *Take cover because on low health Banshee : "Hello there.." Me : "Oh SHIT!!"

bruh im so glad i found this channel i could listen to bricky talk all day

I'll be the first to admit, this was the game that got my parents back into video games, and introduced them to Online gaming. The three of us, plus one extra friend- Depending on the day... We'd go into a Bronze or Silver run, and worked up from day one of this game to playing gold and platinum consistently. It was an experience, and I love it still.

Dad where is mom? Bricky: will talk about that later

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One of my absolute favorite multiplayers of all time and I’m so glad to see there’s other people out there that love it just as much as my friends & I do. I really wish they would’ve remastered it with the rest of the series, such a shame that it was overlooked.

This needs more views. Thanks for the content, and blast of memories.