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Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a 2021 remastered collection of BioWare's science-fiction role-playing trilogy, bundling Mass Effect (2007), Mass Effect 2 (2010) and Mass Effect 3 (2012) with nearly all of their downloadable content and a rebuilt presentation layer. Players create Commander Shepard, a human officer who becomes the first human Spectre and spends three games assembling allies against the Reapers, a race of ancient machine gods returning to harvest galactic civilisation. The trilogy mixes third-person cover shooting with a pause-and-command squad system, a Paragon and Renegade morality axis, and a cast of recruitable companions whose survival depends on choices carried forward through save imports. The Legendary Edition unifies the character creator across all three games, reworks Mass Effect 1's combat and Mako handling, and adds 4K and HDR support on compatible hardware. It was developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and it plays on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S through backward compatibility.

• Three-Game Campaign: one continuous story across Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, with save imports that carry Commander Shepard's level, class, squad relationships, and every major decision into the next game.
• Paragon and Renegade Morality: dialogue and actions push Shepard along a reputation axis that unlocks Persuade and Intimidate options, and the balance between the two shapes how squadmates and the Council respond across the trilogy.
• Pause-and-Command Combat: real-time third-person shooting freezes into a power wheel and squad command wheel, letting the player queue biotic and tech powers for Shepard and both squadmates, then resume in slow motion.
• Class and Bonus Power Progression: six classes (Soldier, Engineer, Adept, Infiltrator, Sentinel, Vanguard) with distinct power kits, plus loyalty-based bonus powers that can be trained in Mass Effect 2 and 3.
• Weapon Heat and Thermal Clips: Mass Effect 1 uses overheating weapons with unlimited ammunition, while Mass Effect 2 and 3 switch to disposable thermal clips, a design change the remaster preserves rather than unifies.
• Galactic Readiness and War Assets: Mass Effect 3's endgame is assembled from war assets gathered across the galaxy and multiplied by multiplayer and companion-app readiness, determining the strength of the final assault on Earth.
• Legendary Edition Modernisation: a shared character creator across all three games, reworked Mass Effect 1 gunplay and Mako handling, unified UI scaling, 4K and HDR output, and a photo mode added to every game in the collection.
• Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer: the four-player wave-based co-op mode returns with the full kit roster, and its Galactic Readiness contribution still feeds into the single-player war asset total.