This, alongside the notion of once again driving around in the unwieldy Mako all-terrain vehicle, stopped me replaying through the trilogy in the run-up to this relaunch. The original game had clunky gunplay and cover detection, and forced you to dive into menus to access special attacks and powers. Mass Effect Legendary Edition has arrived, and I’m so thankful that the original Mass Effect got the heaviest overhaul when it comes to gameplay and graphics. What made me - and many - fall in love with Mass Effect were these choices that would shape the universe, touching on themes of genocide, weighing up the lives of the young versus the old, whether to help out an old friend, or prioritize an entire colony choosing what you think was best for the future of everyone, or just messing up the galaxy if you wanted to play the bad guy. BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy is a hugely influential game series that, along with the developer’s Dragon Age series, remains unmatched when it comes to how a player’s decisions can have in-game and across an entire series.
