Mass Effect

Mass Effect is an award-winning, bestselling series of science fiction RPG third-person shooter video games developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and, from the second installment, for the PlayStation 3. The first game in the planned trilogy centers around a player created character named Commander Shepard and his/her mission to save thegalaxy from a race of mechanical beings known as the Reapers, and its followers, including the brainwashed Saren Arterius. The first game sees Shepard facing Sovereign, a Reaper left as a vanguard, who plans to allow the Reaper fleet currently hibernating in extra-galactic dark space to invade the Milky Way and destroy all sapient organic life, continuing a mysterious cycle of destruction. The second game takes place two years later, and sees Shepard battling the Collectors, an alien race abducting entire human colonies in a plan to help the Reapers return to the Milky Way. The third and final game will center on the final battle against the Reapers.

Since the beginning the series has been a major critical success. Both games have received critical acclaim for their storyline, characters, romances, voice acting, choices, tolerance of diversity, and the depth of the galaxy.^[1]^[2]^[3] Video game website GamesRadarcalled Mass Effect the best new franchise of the generation, saying that the galaxy was so well-constructed that it felt like a decades-old franchise and that it represented "a high-water mark for video games as a story-telling medium."^[4]

System requirements

Component	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows XP / Windows Vista
Processor	2.4Ghz Intel or 2.0Ghz AMD	2.6Ghz Intel or 2.4Ghz AMD
Memory	1GB (Windows XP) / 2GB (Windows Vista)	2GB
Graphic Card	Nvidia GeForce 6 series (6800GT or better) / ATI 1300XT or better	Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX or higher / ATI X1800 XL series or higher
Disk Space	12GB
Sound Card	DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers