It’s meant to be the start of a bold new sci-fi universe that puts players at the center of humanity’s fight for survival thousands of years into the future. The twist that gives it spice? Our worst enemies are our future selves. Also, there are armored space bears. It remains to...
(2023). “There Is No War, There Is Only Harvest”: Diplomatic Realpolitik and Combat Gameplay in Mass Effect. In: BioWare's Mass Effect. Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18876-3_3 Download citation .RIS ....
Mass Effect’s present is full of cool aliens and impressive space stations, but that’s not all: its past is also full of those things. It’s challenging enough to give a setting history that can pass muster; it’s another thing entirely to make the audience interested in that history....
humanity is already undone. The Reapers have the Citadel. They've got all the species fighting each other instead of fighting them. You further tell The Illusive Man that he has done exactly what the Reapers wanted, and that he is still doing it because they control him. You try to tell...