Mass Effect Series - Retrospective @ Play.tm

Play.tm has a new article looking back at the entire Mass Effect series, and calling it one of the series that defined this gaming generation.

Over the course of the three games the Mass Effect trilogy showed that gamers can become truly emotionally invested in the characters of a series and even more so given that their survival or less depends on the decisions of the player.

BioWare also managed to show a real character development arc for almost everyone that Shepard encounters and managed to tie up what could have been a never-ending cascade of loose ends in the ending of Mass Effect 3 (the Extended Cut, although the original ending was not without its merits).

The real test of how well the series has gone down is just talking to others that have played the trilogy from start to finish. In sharing my playthrough stories with others I have learned just how much the experience varies from player to player. It stands testament to just how well the Mass Effect trilogy was constructed to see just how personal other players experiences were.

There are plenty of other series that have managed to make this generation what it was but none did it in such an emotionally engaging way and, it makes me excited to see what BioWare have planned for the next console generation.