User blog comment:The Shadow User/Squadmates in Mass Effect 3/@comment-730941-20101014105000

Agree that new squadmates are required because some or many ME/ME2 ones may be dead. Given the combinations of possible surviving team members, I can't see how the recruitment process would work (or the conversations, for that matter). Are they going to record lines for 16 characters who are fully voiced for the entire game? Not sure. Given this I think a new team is likely, perhaps only 5 or 6 (including Ash/Kaidan), with cameos from the rest of the ME2 squad at random points through the game.

As for new ME3 squadmembers, I'd prefer if Bioware didn't do their old trick of magically inventing a new race that we've never heard of (where were all the drell in the original game?) and instead flesh out the existing species with some interesting members. A female turian, for example. Special request: a male romance option for my mShep. He's only been waiting 2 games...