Blog: THE FIRE WIRE

The original Mass Effect is still one of my favorite games. It's an epic space opera from BioWare that presented a stunningly broad sci-fi universe which mixed the political intrigue of Star Trek with the exotic aliens and mystical powers of Star Wars. There was combat that blended modern third-person shooting with stop-and-go squad tactics for the ultimate in space warfare. The game treated the finer details of physical cosmology and the practicalities of space travel with reverence. But Mass Effect was not without it problems—a clunky and confusing inventory system, a frame rate that dropped when the action got [...]