Mass Effect is better than Star Wars

Let me begin with a disclaimer. This is based on no facts whatsoever, and it’s purely me spouting my own drivel…

Mass Effect is better than Star Wars.

I love Star Wars. But to be honest, I love old Star Wars, not new Star Wars. But the setting is what really brings the films to life. The multitude of planets, systems, races and religions gives us an ever expanding universe to get lost in. A lot like Mass Effect does. But where Star Wars gives us loads of aliens, rarely are they integral to the story. Sure Yoda, But most aliens are there as props, to make a believable world. Chewy offers no story line other than a giant walking carpet who hangs a round with a human. The main protagonist, Luke, A human boy, from a human family, meets a human Jedi, who tasks him with defeating a Human Sith. It could be a cold war film, Yanks v’s Ruskies. Even C3PO and R2D2 could be exchanged for a simple email,

pls hlp Obiwan, Leia.

or tweet…

#rebels #vaderscoming #emailed-you-secret-plans-to-destroy-the-deathstar

All Playable characters, each with their own tale to tell...

Of Course, then it wouldn’t be the Star Wars we all know and love. I’m still referring to Episodes IV, V, & VI. Not Episodes I, II, or III. Or as I like to call them, Star Wars toy advert 1, toy advert 2 and toy advert 3, but after playing The Mass Effect Trilogy, I realised how unimportant the alien races in Star Wars are. On the Citadel of Mass Effect, a gigantic ancient space station, all the races of the Milky Way hold an embassy there, and we Humans are the new kids on the block. You play as Shepard, Earths last, great war hero, are you are the puppet that Earths politicians use to gain a foothold in this galactic senate. The Alien races populate the council, and Humans are not considered enlightened enough, almost too selfish a species to care about the rest of the creeds. What leads then is a cross galaxy tale of rogue aliens, recruiting the races of the stars to help you fight, and a malevolent curse of an ancient evil on its way….

This is Star Wars....

This is Shit...

This is where Mass Effect shines. Humans aren’t the only thing that matters in this story, unlike Star Wars, where another tale running through is about family and love… bollocks to that. Give me Mass Effects fighting and fucking any day! The aliens are so important in the tale, that without them, there’s no Mass Effect. It embraces the alien technology integration into human DNA, which corrupts the mind to the point where man questions what species he wants to be. Mankind is given choices, save or exterminate an entire alien population, Pick a side in a long going alien war, discovering new alien races, and generally becoming such a badass that it soon becomes clear, The galaxy needs you fighting with them, Not against them.

Mass Effect bad asses....

Your fighting team is a choice of a band of reprobates from other worlds. A few humans, but then you have up to 7 different alien races to choose from. So for pretty much the entire game, you can go as part of an alien group… which I did, cos its loads more interesting than the normal human soldier stereotypes. And during the game, working next to these races gives you the opportunity to learn about their culture, and it’s not some woeful back story, “my mummy died when she gave birth to me”, or, “you love him and not me!”

STFU & GTFO

Mass Effect feels like space travel should, new modern technologies from the alien races you encounter, to discovering the galactic crossing machinery abandoned in space from a long extinct species. The Star Wars tale is a tried and tested good v’s evil story, but I feel as though Mass Effects richer universe makes that same good ol’ story that little bit more believable…

Bigger than the death star, but with better MPG.... Mass effects Mass relays, the only way to travel!