All the in-game help you could need can also be turned on, or you can just have it all automated so all you need to do is sit back and enjoy the ride. You can now jump into the game with the option to play it purely for the Action, or only for its story or for the full “RPG experience”. And to a degree, there’s a lot in place to back this claim up. Planet to planet, character to character, the game delivers the goods on almost every level, but when the space dust clears the end is truly realised - something almost unheard of in the videogame landscape.ĮA and BioWare have been readily talking up the idea that if you’ve never played Mass Effect before, this third chapter is the perfect place to start. *breathes into a bag* so much awesome, that it's almost impossible to relay in words. And this is a tale that literally spans the galaxy, and at such epic scale, it ends with so much gusto, so much luster, so much weight. But with all the metagaming in tow, there’s one clear fact about Mass Effect: story is paramount. But maybe the point all along is that Mass Effect, as a series, has always been a shooter trapped in an RPG body.

Combat was no longer settled by the roll of a dice, and character levelling was so streamlined, it might as well have had racing stripes. When Mass Effect 2 arrived, stylised and looking like a boy who had become a man, following BioWare’s first, shaky foray into an original space-faring IP with Mass Effect, it was to the chagrin of many that despite this new sheen, the game had lost much of its RPG foundation.

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