Mass Effect Infiltrator
A mobile third-person shooter set in the Mass Effect universe.
Mass Effect Infiltrator is a third-person shooter video game developed by IronMonkey Studios. It was released on 6 March 2012 for iOS, 22 May 2012 for Android, and 13 June 2013 for BlackBerry 10.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- IronMonkey Studios
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Designer
- Jarrad Trudgen
- Series
- Mass Effect
- Released
- March 6, 2012
- Genre
- Third-person shooter
- Modes
- Single-player
- Platforms
- BlackBerry 10
- iOS
- Android
- Windows Phone
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Plot
The protagonist is Cerberus operative Randall Ezno. He is deployed to an ice planet to eliminate a turian marked for death by Cerberus. After returning to the Cerberus base called The Barn, he becomes involved in a mass prisoner escape and discovers his advisor Inali is being experimented on against her will. Randall fights through Cerberus troops and escaped prisoners to rescue her and contact the Alliance for help.
Development
After the first Mass Effect game, BioWare prototyped a Mass Effect title influenced by Star Control, which evolved into Mass Effect: Corsair for the Nintendo DS. Electronic Arts predicted low DS sales, so the team shifted to developing Mass Effect Infiltrator for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. IronMonkey Studios handled production and content creation, applying experience from Dead Space mobile development. Lead designer Jarrad Trudgen noted the team added post-processing and an advanced material system for more detailed environments. The designers focused on action gameplay, omitting role-playing elements like a dialog system.
Reception
Reviews were generally mixed. Metacritic assigned a weighted average score of 68 based on 27 reviews. Slide To Play initially criticized the controls and found environments repetitive despite impressive graphics, but after the 1.0.3 update revised its review to call the game a high-quality shooter. PCMag described it as decent, praising visuals but noting repetitive combat and tricky controls.
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