![]() Though eager fans already knew the remaster was on the way, it wasn't until this week that BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts shared a first look at how they've given the entire three-game cycle a thorough touch-up.Īs the reveal trailer below shows, this is definitely still the Mass Effect that you remember…but if the artistic upgrades here are anything to go by, it's also something more:įor many who missed the genre-defining buzz that surrounded the trilogy's original release, Legendary Edition will mark their first point of entry into Mass Effect's rich and sprawling RPG journey. That's why the artistic stakes probably feel so high for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, the upcoming remaster of the first three games in the series that form the essential Mass Effect experience (with apologies to 2017's less well-received Mass Effect: Andromeda, which isn't included in Legendary Edition's do-over). ![]() From alien races to cleverly-adapted RPG tropes that received tech-y makeovers to suit their spacey setting, BioWare packed a ton of believability into what, at its core, was in many ways a conventional role-playing game with an ambitiously novel and fresh change of venue. EA BioWare's epic series will forever live rent-free in the hearts of millions of fans, especially the Xbox 360 players who were there from the start, as a sweeping saga that carved out a place for a proper Western RPG in territory far beyond high fantasy of old-world mages, knights, swords, castles, and dragons.Īt the time of its release in 2007, the first Mass Effect went farther than just about any other original sci-fi game to date in committing to building an original and totally unique sci-fi world. ![]() ![]() ![]() If the Halo franchise is gaming's definitive sci-fi space shooter, then the Mass Effect franchise - despite having a more muted gaming presence in recent years - is probably the definitive sci-fi space RPG. ![]()
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