Mass Effect is a series of video games primarily developed by BioWare. It is composed of a main trilogy plus two spin-off titles. The games have been released on various platforms: Android, iOS, PC, PS3, Wii U, and Xbox 360. Ancillary materials pertaining to the games' setting are also available in film, comic, and book form.
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| - Mass Effect is a series of video games primarily developed by BioWare. It is composed of a main trilogy plus two spin-off titles. The games have been released on various platforms: Android, iOS, PC, PS3, Wii U, and Xbox 360. Ancillary materials pertaining to the games' setting are also available in film, comic, and book form.
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| - As the game progresses, the storyline sometimes references sexual material . Players can also initiate brief romantic encounters between characters: dialogue choices are made, leading to kissing and caressing on a bed—sexual activity is implied. In one of these sequences, an alien character's buttocks and breasts are briefly depicted.
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| crude-humor
| - The words “f**k,” “sh*t,” and “a*shole” can be heard in dialogue.
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| drugs-alcohol
| - There is a bar in the game that the player can optionally purchase implied alcoholic drinks at and become drunk.
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| violence
| - As players interact with myriad characters , they use machine guns, shotguns, assault rifles, and futuristic weapons to kill humans and alien creatures in frenetic combat. Enemies sometimes emit splashes of blood when hit; some sequences depict bloodstained characters or environments. Cutscenes depict other instances of violence: an alien shooting herself in the head with a pistol; a character getting impaled by a creature's claws.
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| - Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer and Mass Effect: Andromeda Multiplayer
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| attitude
| - Because the game is co-op only players tend to be helpful and supportive more than super competitive
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| - The first Mass Effect game features Quasar, a numbers game somewhat like Blackjack. Mass Effect 2 has a varren pit fight in one visitable location, where people bet on the outcome between two fighting animals. Mass Effect 3: Citadel DLC introduces the Silver Coast Casino. It features 3 games of chance , the rules of which are detailed in the casino article. Players can win or lose in-game currency called credits through these avenues.
The Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer store sells item packs for credits accumulated through matches or real-world currency. The items gained are random and often tiered according to rarity, which may prompt compulsive spending until the desired item is acquired.
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| Voice
| - Voice chat is supported in multiplayer mode
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| Age
| - On average, young adults and older
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| Difficulty
| - Mass Effect has a fairly complicated set of menus and abilities to navigate, but the games are generally of average to slightly above average difficulty for a regular player.
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| - Action, Role-playing game, Science Fiction
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| Language
| - The words 'a*s,' 'bastard,' and 'sh*t' appear in dialogue.
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| Content
| - Blood, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
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| Description
| - The games are set against a futuristic sci-fi backdrop where the basis for interstellar travel and civilization comes from mass effect physics. Humanity has discovered the ruins of an ancient spacefaring race called the Protheans on Mars and used the technology to explore the stars, coming across numerous alien races and learning to live with it.
The trilogy follows the story of Commander Shepard, the player character, who learns about the existence of a galactic threat called the Reapers and has the ultimate goal of stopping them. Mass Effect: Andromeda takes place in the titular galaxy, and features the struggles of player character Pathfinder Ryder. The games follow a linear overarching plot, but the ways in which to tackle presented challenges form the basis of the game experience.
Tremendous leeway is given to the player in mapping out the behavior of their character. The Shepard trilogy offers a dichotomous morality system keeps track of certain actions and may influence certain scenarios. Players can be morally upright paragons, vindictive/petty renegades, or somewhere in between. Through Save File Transfer, decisions can carry over across the trilogy, but only if the games are all on the same platform. Mass Effect: Andromeda tries its hand on a more naturalistic dialogue system where player choices fall on a wider spectrum than red or blue.
The two spin-off titles are shooters for mobile devices with elements from the main games. Galaxy, a top-down shooter, puts players in the shoes of Jacob Taylor, who like Shepard may choose which responses to give in conversations. Infiltrator, a third-person shooter, is about Randall Ezno, a Cerberus operative whose overall morality is the deciding factor in the game's final mission.
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| - A free subscription to EA's Origin service is required to play Mass Effect 3 online on the PC, a paid subscription to Xbox Live Gold is required to play Mass Effect 3 online on the Xbox 360.
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| Connectivity
| - A high speed internet connection is recommended
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| purchases
| - Additional DLC missions are available for the single player experience. The multiplayer experience features randomized packs of additional guns and gear that can be purchased. The full list of purchasable items is available here.
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| abstract
| - Mass Effect is a series of video games primarily developed by BioWare. It is composed of a main trilogy plus two spin-off titles. The games have been released on various platforms: Android, iOS, PC, PS3, Wii U, and Xbox 360. Ancillary materials pertaining to the games' setting are also available in film, comic, and book form.
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