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Mass Effect
Your choices, your galaxy
Mass Effect is the BioWare sci-fi RPG saga that started in 2007. Commander Shepard leads the original trilogy, and Mass Effect: Andromeda takes a new crew to another galaxy.
- 2007
- First game
- 1
- Series
- Casey Hudson, BioWare
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
The Shepard trilogy. BioWare's original trilogy follows Commander Shepard across the Milky Way, with choices carried between games through to the end of the story in Mass Effect 3.
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The essentials
A legacy worth revisiting
Decisions that follow you.
Mass Effect mixes squad-based shooting with conversation choices that shape who lives and who you become. Across the trilogy those decisions carry from one game to the next, which turns a space opera into something personal.
- 2007 to 2012
- The Shepard trilogy
- 2017 to 2021
- New galaxy, new shine
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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