Walters: The trailer focused a lot on the characters and moments from the games, but layered on top of that was that it was everyone's own personal experience.

Why do you think the series has such resonance? It also made me a little misty-eyed to a degree I didn't expect.

The trailer you guys released back in February had a huge impact - the one on the official channel alone has more than 3 million views. Here's a transcript of the interview, edited for clarity. The series sold millions of copies and each game was critically acclaimed, despite some controversy over the third game's ending.Īhead of Legendary Edition's release, I chatted over Zoom with project director Mac Walters and with character and environment director Kevin Meek about those emotional attachments, the changes they've made to the games, how they think Mass Effect 3's ending will go down in 2021 and the chances of its multiplayer mode making a return. Your choices determine the fates of your allies, enemies and billions across the galaxy, carrying between games in the trilogy and creating a unique narrative for each player. You play as customizable hero Shepard and gather an excellent squad of now-iconic characters as they discover the horrifying threat of the Reapers, a machine race intent on purging the galaxy's sentient life.

You can also play on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S via backward compatibility, which will cut down your time spent looking at loading screens.īioWare's original trilogy came out in 2007, 20, bringing gamers into a sci-fi universe in which humanity has discovered the secrets of faster-than-light travel and has journeyed across the galaxy, allying itself with alien races along the way. It's the first time we've had the epic original trilogy and all its downloadable content in one big collection, in 4K Ultra HD at 60 fps. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition brought remastered versions of Commander Shepard's adventures to PS4, Xbox One and PC on Friday. The vanguard of our destruction - the Reapers have returned in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.

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