FlankerDFMax: When I say play through the series I meant that you have to play through ME1, ME2, and ME3 completely; all side missions and expansions.  On my playthroughs I was a complete Paragon all the way through (a renegade choice here and there) so I don't know if it's possible to get the best ending by being Renegade.  Just play through the game and when you get ready to attack Cerberus just play one or two online matches if neccessary.  It should be more than enough to boost your EMS to the level needed to get all of the endings available.

If that fails you can always cheat just google it.

I know how to fix your PS3 glitches.

Step 1: Pick up your PS3

Step 2: Open Window

Step 3: Throw PS3 out the window

Step 4: Go buy yourself a PC.

Problem solved.

The Extended Cut has debunked the Indoctrination Theory.  Thank you BioWare for a great game, please just let the theory die now.

PS: you can't blame a game for how people in the game play.

What most people tend to forget about this game (like djshowstopper87) is that its not meant to be a "new" game it is meant to bring an end to the Modern Warfare Trilogy and it does that just fantastically, the campaign wraps up the whole series with a nice little bow.  Alot of the multiplayer and Spec Ops type missions from MW2 were reused in MW3 (with just minor bug fixes and tweaks) which really pissed people off especially those that bought the game for the multiplayer were expecting a whole new experience and didn't get it.  You can't revolutionize a genre with every game you release and that is what people wanted a revolution.

Go to the bridge and the big shiney think that looks like the galaxy is called the galaxy map.  Click on it to choose a new destination.

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Playing on a 360 that won't do.  It's likely that the game disc has been damaged in some way, check for scratches, discolorations, or defects on the disk.  If the disk looks fine then make sure the problem only occurs on your Xbox if it occurs on another Xbox it's the disk. To fix this problem: put your Xbox 360 up for sale and get yourself a PC.

I'm sorry I explained the Catalyst/Reaper relationship badly.  Let me try again.

The Reapers wer built eons ago in order to control the chaos of organic evolution, but no one can correctly identify when the Crucible was first designed (Liara mentions something about every cycle adding to it).  What I am theorizing is that the Reapers wer created to maintain order and a rival faction/race/group whatever thought that the cycle being created was flawed and should be stopped.  This faction created the first blueprint for the Crucible could have had the knowledge neccessary to put with in it the ability to modify the Reaper base code (since they are after all just robots) when the crucible would be joined with the catalyst (the Reaper controller) it would put within it a desire to change the cycle to stop it if possible.  Shepard created the opportunity for the cycle to end by making sure the crucible and catalyst joined, but the Reapers would not want all there hard earned knowledge destroyed so they would try to find a way to keep this knowledge alive and therefore present Shepard with alternatives to destroy.  I'm not saying the Reapers haven't tried to indoctrinate Shepard before, but even though he spends alot of time (according to you) around Reapers, its almost always a different Reaper and after at least a few days or weeks in between his last encounter.

This sounds alot like the points I made.  Did you perhaps read what I wrote on this website below or when it was on fanfiction.net?
http://torino70.weebly.com/mass-effect.html

*SPOILERS START HERE*

A Teaser:

The God Child

Of all the problems people have with the ending for Mass Effect 3 almost all of them have some issue with this god-child.  According to ME3 the god-child is the catalyst an AI appearing deity that is housed within the Citadel.  This god-child is based off of a child that Shepard attempts to help and is later vaporized as the Normandy makes his escape from Earth.

After you open up the arms of the Citadel and the Crucible attaches to it you are lifted on an elevator and meet the god-child.  The god-child then explains that he is the catalyst, not the Citadel like you believed.  He explains that the Reapers are his solution to chaos, that the Reapers dont destroy all organic life that they harvest it and make room for other species to rise to galactic power.  This seems confusing but think of it this way, when the collectors were building a human reaper they dissolved colonists completely everything about the colonist became a part of the reaper.  The colonists beliefs, memories, and knowledge became a part of this Reaper, some small part of the colonist was the Reaper.  Although the colonist no longer had free will or an individual identity he/she became immortal in a sense, his/her actions would be stored in the collective consciousness of the Reaper.  A completed Reaper would have the collective knowledge of an entire species, their culture, their knowledge.  It would not have free will or individuality but it would be immortal.  That is what the god-child believes it is providing, immortality to all the races that are now preserved in Reapers.  The galaxy would then have room for an entirely new culture to evolve and flourish.

In the last few moments of the game you a confronted with three distinct choices. Destroy where all synthetics will be wiped from existence, this includes the Geth and EDI, but you are warned that the peace will not last and eventually your descendants will make synthetics that will kill all organic life.  Control Shepard sacrifices himself to take control of all the Reapers, however control is not guaranteed and if he should fail there will be no do overs.  Synthesis Shepard combines his energy with the Crucible to modify all life in the galaxy and create a new genetic makeup for all species, a mixing of synthetic and organic.  No matter what Shepard chooses it seems the Reapers will be defeated and in every ending the Mass Relays are destroyed and Shepard dies (not including the destroy easter egg).  It seems that these choices are meant to drive you away from the Destroy option which The Indoctrination Theory claims is the only viable option.  But is it really?  During one of the earlier conversations with Liara she tells Shepard that the crucible will create more than enough energy to destroy the Reapers but she worries about what form that energy will take.  If something creates enough energy to destroy every Reaper across the galaxy why couldnt the other two options be viable.  Altering DNA seems complex but we humans do it naturally whenever a child is born it is the mixing and altering of human DNA.  As for control the Reapers are already controlled by the god-child so it would just be seen as a change in ownership.  Lets also not forget the only choice that is available should you have an extremely low readiness level Destroy.  If the ending really was about Indoctrination then the  only available option would be control (not of the Reapers but of Shepard) instead Shepard not only destroys all of the Reapers he also destroys most if not all of the life in the Sol System.

As noted in the Indoctrination Theory video the god-childs voice is that of the female Shepard mixed with the male Shepard.  For most people this seems very strange.  Why out of all the voices and people in the universe would it choose this combination?  If this god-child really has control of the Reapers it would have been easy enough for it to access Shepards memories during the Reapers attempt to control Shepard in the Citadel control room.  Why it choose this child seems simple enough to me.  It choose this child because it is someone Shepard did NOT know at all.  A complete stranger that Shepard has no idea about his personality therefore any personality the god-child gives it would be the only personality associated with the god-child.  As for the voice it probably choose something that would sound comforting and yet at the same time authoritative, like Shepards parents.  The fact that the childs voice is male and female Shepard combined is probably a result of what both of Shepards parents sounded like.  It chose the parents voice because that is how the god-child sees himself, not as a terrible destroyer of civilization, but as the preserver of alien cultures which allows new cultures to arise a guardian of the galaxy if you will.

Its an entirely new game that builds from the first three games. It doesn't include anything but it has all the features of the Original, Diplomacy, and Entrenchment as a foundation and Rebellion is the new stuff. One game, not one game and two expansions.

You don't have to buy anything with this game and it will have all the features of the original three games and a bit more.