There are times when I look at the gaming industry and I ask myself if I really want to keep pouring money into it? It is, after all, one extremely expensive hobby to partake in. But then along comes a game (or in this case a series of games) which tug at that part of my psyche that just says, “you’ll never leave us,” and I know I’m in for life.
It’s virtually impossible to discuss one of the Mass Effect games in isolation from the others. The fact they are a chronological trilogy covering one overarching story, between which you transfer your character. Though not the first and, hopefully, not the last game to allow you to transfer your character from a previous game, Mass Effect is the first series to really take it and run with it. Decisions you make in the first game genuinely affect the way the game plays out, seemingly minor actions/decisions in game one resurface in game 3 as being vital and difference making. The sheer planning and effort that must have gone in to keeping track of the various storyline options is hard to comprehend.