
These are all locations you see in the game and in the single player as well,” Wong said. While Sheperd is off doing his own thing in the storyline, he is going to be able to send these elite squads to these key conflict zones to take them back. “The thing about this war is that it is also taking place across the galaxy and like in any war there are key locations, and those who hold those points. The concept behind the “Galaxy at War” mode is that up to four players can join together as part of a Special Forces that is deployed to various locations throughout the game in order to protect resources and secure assets that will help in the war against the Reapers.

You have to rally the forces of the galaxy, not just individuals like you did in Mass Effect 2,” Andrew Wong, Senior PR Manager for EA, explained to me during a demonstration. “With Mass Effect 3 the Reapers have come, they are attacking Earth and you have to mount this offensive to take it back.
