THE LONG GAME
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
A progress report on the games we just can’t quit
Developer BioWare
Publisher Electronic Arts
Format PC, PS4, Xbox One
Release 2021
R evisiting the original Mass Effect via this year’s Legendary Edition remaster, it’s striking how understated it is. It’s steeped in the mature science fiction of the late 1960s and ’70s – the novels of Arthur C Clarke, films such as Solaris and Silent Running, and the evocative illustrations of space habitats in Gerard K O’Neill’s book The High Frontier.