


The first Mass Effect was Xbox-exclusive until 2012, meaning that a huge number of players’ introduction to BioWare’s revered space opera was Mass Effect 2. What’s most amazing about all of this is that an enormous amount of people never got to experience the moment the way it was intended.

That scar Garrus shows up on the Normandy with? Nothing compared to the damage done to my lower jaw after picking it up off the sitting room floor. It’s the way the mission is designed and the scene is framed that makes it a real show-stopper. This time around, I know it’s Garrus, but that changes nothing. It’s as much a spectacle in 2021 as it was in 2010.
