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Mass Effect 2 is the best of the lot. Mass Effect 3 was controversial but mostly because it quite cleverly upended expectations about how a space opera should end.
And now the Legendary Edition updates all three games for today s tech and standards. Refined gunplay, better graphics, smoother all round.
There are so many remastered games nowadays that it s easy to be suspicious: are they just an attempt to get new cash for the same old material?
But with Mass Effect even with some creaky, original design still showing it s an important act of preservation. A hundred more hours with Commander Shephard and her buddies? I ll do it all over again.
Henry Cavill may be teasing a
Mass Effect TV series or similar project via a post on Instagram. The actor posted a picture of himself reading a blurry paper, with the caption “Secret project? Or just a handful of paper with random words on it…. Guess you’ll have to wait and see. Happy hump day all. #HumpDay #Secrets”. It seems pretty clear that the papers in question are more quite important, so the sleuths over at GamePressure set to unblurring the image with a variety of tools to see what it says. Turns out it’s an excerpt from the
Commander Shepard visited the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission
Nearing the end of his moon walk, he hit two golf balls using a makeshift club
One went into a crater but the ultimate location of the other was unclear
Image expert Andy Saunders digitally enhanced images taken on the mission
The second ball, he revealed, travelled a mere 40 yards before coming to rest
Published 2 Feb, 2021
The adventures of Commander Shephard, legendary hero and shopper, will return revamped on the 14th of May in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. BioWare today announced a launch date for the remaster of their sci-fi RPG trilogy, which is coming with new prettiness and character customisation options, plus a whole heap of old DLC. No multiplayer, though. Have a gander at the refresh in the new trailer below.
That s the trilogy revamped with 4K resolutions in mind plus a load of DLC whammed in, from story missions to promo items.
In terms of prettiness, BioWare say the Legendary Edition packs remastered character models and tens of thousands of up-ressed textures as well as improvements to shaders and VFX, updated lighting and improved dynamic shadows, volumetrics and depth-of-field . And they say pre-rendered cinematics are enhanced .