Product Description

In Mass Effect, you'll be assuming the role of commander Shepard, the leader of an elite commando unit, and going on a breathtaking adventure through infinite space. You can add personal touches to your hero while you explore this interplanetary universe and play a game where the ending is never the same!






Developer : BioWare/Pandemic Studios
Official site : http://masseffect.bioware.com/
Minimum age : 18 years
Game setting :
Orientation : Role play
Violent : Yes
Multiplayer mode : No
Network mode : Yes
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #380 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2007-11-23
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
Mass Effect is a science-fiction action and role-playing game (RPG) created by BioWare, the commercially and critically acclaimed RPG developer of Jade Empire and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Mass Effect delivers an immersive, story-driven gameplay experience with stunning visual fidelity. As the first humans on the galactic stage, players must uncover the greatest threat to civilization. Their job is complicated by the fact that no one will believe the truth, but the world must be convinced of the grave threat at hand.

Players will travel across an expansive universe to piece the mystery together. As they discover and explore the uncharted edges of the galaxy, they come closer to an overwhelming truth learning that the placid and serene universe they know is about to come to a violent end and that they may be the only people who can stop it.

On a distant planet an amazing discovery is made. Players must determine the fate of humanity as they lead an elite tactical strike force in an effort to stop an entity so malevolent that it threatens to tear apart the very fibre of galactic civilization. Mass Effect will take players to new depths for an action-RPG, where, unlike in most RPGs, they will be faced with morally complex decisions that have significant impact on the fate of all life in the galaxy. Players must succeed in their quest no matter what the cost.

In addition to the main story arc of the game, players will be able to visit a large number of uncharted, unexplored planets that are side quests independent from the main story. At any time during the campaign, a player can choose to explore one of these planets and have an opportunity to discover new alien life, resources, ruined civilizations and powerful technologies.

Mass Effect features a real-time, squad-based tactical combat system. Players will enjoy intense, challenging and exciting third-person action and squad-based combat. Players and their squad-mates will be able to engage the enemy with ranged weapons and covering fire, biotic powers and science-based magic, and technological powers all of which will be accompanied by amazing visual and physics effects that will add tremendous excitement and drama to the battlefield. Whether they use powerful biotic powers or the latest in military hardware, players will be well-equipped to take on whatever comes their way.

Mass Effect will feature a huge cast of incredibly realistic non-player characters, enemies and party members. Each of the characters encountered will have realistic facial and body movements. A revolutionary advanced dialogue and AI system gives them engaging personalities, creating individuals so realistic they will seem like the first true digital actors ever seen in a video game. The resulting experience is one in which players will feel as if they are part of a rich, living world.

Players will be able to choose from and customize a variety of stunning, photo-realistic character appearances at the start of the game, and can increase various statistics that will affect their performance during gameplay. The reward system in Mass Effect is deep, well-integrated and extremely engaging. New equipment, weapons and armour that are acquired during the course of the story will change the appearance of the characters. Mass Effect will give players a huge breadth of additional customization options for their characters, weapons and vehicles. Talents and abilities will be upgradeable, and advanced talent options will become available at higher levels. Weapons and vehicles will be customizable to include various effects, abilities and upgrades. Each character class will have unique talents and abilities that will increase in power as players progress through the game.

Mass Effect takes full advantage of the hardware of Xbox 360, providing players with exciting new experiences, including photo-realistic, high-definition graphics on an epic scale, and amazingly realistic characters who bring the world alive. Players will be immersed in a massive universe of unbelievable scale, meet characters that feel real and, most important, interact with them in ways that have never been possible before. As the future of gaming goes online, premium downloadable content and recognition of achievements will be available via the Xbox Live online game service.

Developer Information:
BioWare Corp. is a developer of computer and console video games focused on rich stories and memorable characters. Currently in development are Mass Effect (for Xbox 360) and Dragon Age (for PC), two brand-new intellectual properties created and owned by BioWare, with Mass Effect to be published by Microsoft Game Studios. BioWare's new studio in Austin, Texas, has begun work on a new massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, BioWare's first entry into the MMO space. BioWare's Technology Architecture Group is also developing the cutting-edge, next-generation BioWare Eclipse Engine technology for multiple platforms. Other previously published projects include the action-RPG of 2005 for Xbox, Jade Empire, the 2003 Game of the Year currently in development for the PC, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Xbox and PC, the award-winning Neverwinter Nights series, and the genre-defining Baldur's Gate RPG series for the PC.

Customer Reviews

Mass effect is like a film
Ok this game isn`t for people who just like shoot`em ups, there is a great story here and you do have to do a lot of talking to people. Graphically this game is fantastic and is like a movie at times especially on a 42" plasma. I haven`t suffered that much with the game freezing and slow down. The story in this game is that good that i really think someone could either make a film from it or even a series preferably a series. If you have the patience then you will enjoy it.

Stick with it you will love it.
This game is not for everyone, my dad just can't get on with it, but i love it and here's why. Its got a great story!! The problem and i think why you get some negative reviews is it starts with a bang, alien planet lots of shooting quite exciting, but when you return home for the first time there is a lot of talking to characters and sub missions to do to allow the story too unfold, sometimes at this point it isn't exactly obvious what you have to do. This is a role playing game so completing this backdrop allows you to build up some key character attributes. Once you get past this and fly back out into space the pace picks up and stays that way, the story sucks you in and you have to see how it ends. Graphically suberb, easy to use control system but hard to master (especially how to use all your special abilities) but thats what makes it fun. Your gonna need some patience but you will be rewarded for it in the end.

I liked it because i like KOTOR!
I got this game a week ago and am throughly addicted! i'm a big fan of adventure type games and even more of a fan of games where you have different dialog choices that can influence the game e.g. KOTOR, Fable etc.

Visually i wasnt that impressed - the charactors are pretty well animated but the backgrounds are not so good i thought. I had to pump the brightness on my telly right up to be able to see what was going on.

I liked the fact that you can read about different alien species etc as the game unfolds - in the journal type section. It made you get more involved in the story.

I'm barely a quarter of the way through but enjoying it. Its another cracking space adventure story.

p.s i also liked the fact you can choose your difficulty options - i am one of those people who gets bored very easily if a game is too hard. Particulary if it involves too much shooting and fighting - so i liked the fact i can play in 'easy' mode.