Mass Effect
Mass Effect is an action role-playing game set in the year 2183. The player takes the role of Commander Shepard, a customizable character who serves as Executive Officer aboard the SSV Normandy. After a routine mission goes wrong, Shepard assembles a squad and pursues a threat that escalates into a galaxy-wide conflict. The game features real-time squad-based combat where players choose companions and tactics suited to different enemy types, from biotic-wielding opponents to heavily armored machines.
The game spans a large science fiction universe, with explorable locations ranging from the Citadel space station to alien homeworlds and remote outposts. Player decisions affect mission outcomes, crew relationships, and the overarching narrative across the trilogy.
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DeveloperBioWare, BioWare Edmonton
PublisherElectronic Arts, Microsoft Game Studios
ReleasedNovember 20, 2007
StatusReleased
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SeriesMass Effect
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Highly Recommended86/100
About This Game
In 2183, Commander Shepard responds to a distress signal at the human settlement of Eden Prime, only to find the colony under assault by the Geth, synthetic soldiers commanded by the renegade Spectre operative Saren Arterius. A mysterious artifact at the scene grants Shepard a haunting premonition of catastrophic destruction, launching an unexpected ascent through galactic ranks as humanity's first Spectre agent. Tasked with pursuing Saren across the stars, Shepard assembles a diverse team aboard the advanced starship Normandy to unravel a dark plot connected to the Reapers—an ancient, mechanized civilization rumored to obliterate organic life every fifty millennia. As evidence of the Reapers' imminent resurgence mounts, Shepard races against time to intercept Saren's treacherous scheme before a extinction-level catastrophe becomes inevitable.
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