User blog comment:Legionaire22/New Gamemode/@comment-1388547-20120727204202

Reminds me of the side story DLC I was interested in seeing, where you'd follow one of the interesting stories that's implied to have happened before ME3. BioWare did something similar for Dragon Age: Origins with the Leliana's Song add-on. A prime example would be Liara's tangle with Cerberus that culminated in her ramming a Cerberus cruiser. And Balak could be the viewpoint character for the batarian mission.

Creating your own character would also give a way to handle DLC for characters that might be dead -- for example, say we want to look at the invasion of Palaven, from when the Reapers arrive to when Shepard comes to Menae. The natural viewpoint character would be Garrus, but if he's dead he can be replaced with another turian. We might also have something on board the Migrant Fleet for Tali fans, with an alternate quarian if Tali is dead.