Mass Effect is an action-RPG made by the geniuses at BioWare Corp. who are also responsible for more recent classics like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire. In the game you play the role of Commander Shepard, who you can choose to play as the default character in the game or make your own avatar from scratch. You then can decide to pick their class and background. Now as you can see, even before begin to play this game, the game’s main goal for the player is to give him or her the freewill to make their own choice, but more on that later.

As you begin the story in the game, you soon discover the meaning of the game’s title. Years in the future, humanity ventures into Mars and finds secret alien technology that allowed us to travel across the universe in the blink of an eye, this technology was then called the Mass Effect. Like the new kid on the block, humans soon discover that they aren’t the only ones living in the universe and soon bump into other alien races that aren’t too sure of the humans and the reputation that perceives us. Skip a couple of hundred years and you’ll soon enter the games main plot.

As Commander Shepard, you are dropped in the middle of an intergalactic war between a cybernetic race known as the Geth. The Geth’s main goal is to wipe out oraganic life as we know it. Why? Well, that’s something you need to go find out on your own. The free game downloads were highly praised as having the best sci-fi story ever written since Star Wars and to say anymore would be a sin.