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Spoiler Alert
If you haven’t finished the Mass Effect games and don’t want the story ruined, you probably don’t want to listen to this part of the show.
The first Mass Effect had some frustrating side missions and the Mako was a horrible experience for the most part. The story was great though and the characters that were born in Mass Effect are the series most memorable so far.
Mass Effect 2 is a fantastic game. It’s more playable than Mass Effect but it lacks the depth of character creation of the first game and the story isn’t anywhere near as engrossing as that of the first game.
Everyone’s going to have wildly different stories in Mass Effect 3. There are tons of decisions from Mass Effect that affected decisions in Mass Effect 2 and this is going to be all over the place in Mass Effect 3. It will be interesting to see what happens in the end for all our friends’ games.
The multiplayer, because it isn’t required to fully experience the single player story, is a welcomed addition. The fiction of the Mass Effect universe makes it clear that Shepard isn’t the only person in the galaxy getting in trouble, so the multiplayer is a chance to be someone other than Shepard for once!
This piece is a tune that was originally recorded for the first Mass Effect but wasn’t used in the game. It was released separately in 2011 by Mass Effect composer, Sam Hulick.
Just a little bit of the main Mass Effect theme to set the mood.
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