Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Started As Standalone First-Person Shooter
Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Started As Standalone First-Person Shooter EA and BioWare once planned to release a standalone Mass Effect multiplayer shooter, but the project was scuttled by studio tensions and became ME3 multiplayer. At the height of Mass Effects popularity, EA and BioWare toyed with making a standalone first-person shooter multiplayer game. The project was called Mass Effect: Team Assault, or META, and it was the prototype that eventually became the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect...
Source: gamespot.com