

This is far, far from my first playthrough of this series, but I’m still as obsessed as I was more than a decade ago with everything to do with the genophage, the quarian-geth conflict, the Migrant Fleet, the First Contact War, the origins of the Reapers, the inter-race politics of the Council, and a bunch of other things that I could go on and on and on about.

BioWare’s creative juices were flowing like never before (and never since) when they were working on the Mass Effect games, and the chance to experience that all over again is a real gift. All of it is made richer by all of the inter-galactic politics, conflicts and battles between multitudes of fascinating alien races, oodles of lore lending incredible life and personality to places and species, and some of the most astounding alien locations you’ll ever see in a game.

Appropriately enough as a remastered collection of one of the best gaming trilogies ever made, Legendary Edition is an impressive remaster, and an excellent way to experience BioWare’s best work to date for both returning fans and newcomers alike.Ĭommander Shepard’s three-part fight against the Reapers is still a story worth experiencing, especially with all the DLC and expansions included and baked into the trilogy.

The chance to relive that glorious era of BioWare, when the developer and this franchise were both at their absolute best, is something fans have been asking for for a long time now, and that is exactly what Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is. As role playing games, as third person shooters, as stories, as casts of characters, as games the strike the perfect balance between player agency and scripted storytelling- BioWare’s role playing franchise has excelled in more ways than one over the years, especially with its original trilogy.
