The Mass Effect 3 demo is finally here and it comes with 1.8gb of Single and Multiplayer gameplay. This is a review of the single player mode. Just like anyone who has fallen in love with the previous two Mass Effect titles I was eager to get this underway and play it over and over again until my Xbox burns out.  I could not be more pleased with what Bioware has crammed into this demo. There is a good amount of customisation for your character for a demo and it shows the predicted features of final product. After deciding with the appearance of your Male or Female Sheppard you get to chose your preferred class and way of play as well as the psychological profile of the character. You get to choose from the following:

Soldier – Pure combat, focus on weapons and heavy armour

Infiltrator – Tech and combat balance, favours the sniper and is capable of cloaking.

Vanguard – Close quarter combat, use of powers such as pull and shockwave to move and stun enemies and allowing for the close fighting

Sentinel – Tech and biotics. Equips an advanced shield and can detonate armour when near enemies and explode for splash damage.

Adept – Biotic specialist, disabling and killing through the method of pure biotic power. Lacks in main stream combat but uses throw, pull, shockwave, singularity and cluster grenade abilities.

Engineer – Tech specialist with basic combat training, best at disabling defences of the high level bosses in game. Can spawn combat drones to force your enemies out of cover.

My first impressions of the gameplay were brilliant, the character movement is more free-flowing, mainly in the sprinting area and the graphics have taken a bigger step once again from the previous title. The demo offers an introduction to the history and plot of the series and shows your first cut scene which is a meeting with Anderson and the Alliance defence committee. A decent interactive speech from Sheppard before the threat becomes real and you have yourself a fight. You discover the reapers are attacking the UK before you get attacked yourself and the invasion of Earth begins. You are typically shown the basics for cover and combat essentials before taking on a few husks, which have been restored to their brainless state from Mass Effect 1.

You’re quest is to make contact with the Normandy, first you need a radio. You salvage one from a crashed gunship which Anderson then claims to have found. The first part of the demo finishes soon after when you hold your ground before the Normandy picks you up. The second part of the demo is the level that was featured at the Eurogamer Expo. You have to fight your way through a Salarian facility in an attempt to locate and rescue a female Krogan. You are soon in competition with Cerberus for the female specimen however and you must defend her while you try to escape the base with the objective. After fighting your way through a well designed set of control rooms, clearing checkpoints for the Krogans transfer, you will be faced with a mech boss at the end. Defeat the mech and you have completed the single player section of the demo.

So a very good demo, I will admit my love for the series may have influenced my positive attitude but it still shows promise that the third and final instalment of the series, which is set for release on March 6th in the States and March 9^th here in the UK.
I rate the demo 5/5 and look forward to the full release.