You destroyed Sovereign, a vanguard Reaper bent on summoning the rest of its dormant race and bringing about another end of days. Hollywood usually has enough trouble repelling one race of murderous robots, Mass Effect asks you to repel two!īioWare polishes off its story-telling mastery at the end of Mass Effect by leaving us with one of the most fulfilling cliffhangers in gaming.
He's allied himself with the geth, a race of violent and sentient machines, and the Reapers, a second race of extremely violent and monstrously sentient machines. You spent the entire first game running up against a veteran and apparently rogue Spectre named Saren Arterius. I could quote the codex here, but they're pretty much the CIA muscle of the Citadel Council. The most significant appointment you receive as Shepard, aside from resident galaxy-saver, is enlistment into the Spectres. Humanity, as per usual, is struggling to be the best. It's the 22nd century and humanity is now one of the lesser powers amongst a big wide open galaxy of factions, the largest of which being the Citadel Council and its more prominent members. From there, you cruised around the galaxy in the most impressive stealth frigate ever designed: the SSV Normandy. In the first game, you assumed the role of Commander Shepard, customizing appearance and first name to your liking. It's completely original, taking license only from the pure awesome of the space opera genre (and maybe Battlestar Galactica). Jade Empire toyed with the idea, but Mass Effect fulfilled it. However, it has left little room for original worlds. Don't get me wrong: Baldur's Gate is awesome, Neverwinter Nights and its modding community were extremely compelling, and Knights of the Old Republic remains one of the better Star Wars games to date. If you look at BioWare's history, a huge chunk of their games are using other licenses. Mass Effect went a little further than that, though. BioWare's release of Mass Effect back in 2007 for the Xbox 360 (and later in 2008 for the PC) meant a brand new science fiction universe for gamers to explore.
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