But otherwise, apart from some ammo/thermal clips rebalancing in favor of the players (which was needed), they feel and play exactly the same as they did with the original versions.

They look nicer and have been turned into the ultimate versions of themselves. Additionally, all of the games now have a more unified look and have gained some extra visual flair that wasn’t available in the original games, most notably the depth of field and nicer global illumination.Īnd for Mass Effect 2 and 3 the changes more or less end here.

And all of the good ideas from it were recreated in a far better way in the Citadel DLC for ME3 anyway. That one had its source code lost and while it did have some unique content and voice acting, it was an obnoxiously unfun DLC that I’ve personally completed only once across my many playthroughs of the game, because I can’t stand it. All of the singleplayer DLCs, including the cross-promotion ones, are included and sprinkled out throughout the game in a balanced way, with the exception of the Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect. Mass Effect Legendary Edition doesn’t change what the games were. And Mass Effect 3 is a fun third person shooter/action RPG in which the stories from 1 and 2 get concluded, while the game feels the closest to a more typical military shooter in tone. Mass Effect 2 is all about cinematic action adventuring with varied missions and extremely charismatic companions. Mass Effect was ambitious in scope and is all about space exploration, mysteries of the universe and being a good or a bad space cop. But to refresh your memory, Mass Effect is a series of story driven third person shooter action RPGs with a sci-fi setting and strong choice-consequence systems going across all three games of the original trilogy. I won’t focus too much on the games themselves, since I’ve spent so long talking about each one of them separately 3 years ago and my opinion on them hasn’t changed since. So the announcement of Mass Effect Legendary Edition came as a complete surprise to me.Īfter having spent another 90 hours, playing through the trilogy with a fresh new Shepard, I’m happy to say that while it’s not exactly perfect and definitely not as thorough as some might’ve wanted, Legendary Edition is the best way to play the original Mass Effect trilogy. They seemed perfectly content with selling original releases and all of the DLCs separately for a juicy price, without even attempting to fix any serious issues that plagued the PC releases for years. When I sat down to play all three original Mass Effect trilogy games 3 years ago, I did not expect EA to join on the idea of remasters, especially for such a complex series made on Unreal Engine 3, at the tail end of the previous console generation.

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