Mass Effect 3 to Get a Demo

By Tyler Clark / October 20, 2011 / News / One Comment

The demo is set to drop in January 2012, though the exact date isn’t given. Through the demo, you’ll get a taste of the game’s single player and multi-player modes. Well, kind of. The single player will be available to everyone when the demo is released, but to get the multi-player portion, you need to redeem Battlefield 3’s online pass on any platform(PC, PS3, 360).

However, don’t fret if you don’t plan on getting Battlefield 3. Bioware stated in a post on their forums that there will be other ways to get into the demo’s multiplayer. Those ways will be revealed in late November/early December, along with the demo’s exact release date.

Kind of odd you need an online pass to get into the multi-player part of a demo, but at least there’ll be other ways to get it. Hopefully they aren’t too outrageous, and hopefully the multi-player gets opened to everyone eventually.

Via – Bioware forums

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One Comment

  1. Dylan Holmes
    October 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    Remember when demos were demos – that is, that publishers tried to freely distribute them to as many people as possible to entice them into buying the full game?

    Now, somehow, they’re a privilege. Why on earth would I pay to participate in a demo? Doesn’t that defeat the entire point?

    A single-player demo is certainly better than no single-player demo (the status quo these days) but RPGs are notoriously hard to represent in such short sections. If ME3 is actually an RPG.