(For which there is ample opportunity, which I only realized after watching different possible outcomes of events on YouTube.) To be fair, the third game doesnвЂ™t add a lot of new characters, mostly reintroducing the survivors from the first game as playable ones and giving all вЂ“ yes, ALL вЂ“ of your surviving former squad mates from the second game a cameo and providing satisfying closure to their stories in one way or another. I was lucky in that the only comrades I lost all went by way of noble sacrifice rather than anything simply tragic. Sometimes these decisions were made in an earlier game, meaning a serious investment of time if youвЂ™d want to go back and correct them. A giant roster of interesting and mostly likeable characters followed you along, their number growing as you progressed, some of them falling by the wayside as a result of decisions you made. The first game had me discovering their existence, in the second game I joined a shady organization to stop their first incursion and in the third game I inevitably ended up kicking the ReapersвЂ™ ass just as total extinction loomed.Дeveloper BioWare did a great job of telling an epic scifi tale, spanning three games, that could be shaped by the player, even if all the tales moved through a lot of the same events and ultimately ended up in the same place.

It was under threat from something called the Reapers, you see, who had a nasty habit of wiping out all the advanced civilizations in the galaxy every once in a long while. And like all those other Shepards вЂ“ be they male or female, hard-ass renegade or noble paragon вЂ“ he saved the universe. The decisions I made for him, followed him from one game to the next, impacting his own fate and that of the people around him, making his particular heroic journey (slightly) different than that of thousands of other Shepards.

The intrepid space hero wore a face I shaped for him, all throughout Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 and had his talents honed in accordance to my wishes.

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