What you see instead is a member of the Citadel Council’s elite group of agents – known as SPECTRE – activate the beacon and engage with a hostile AI race of creatures known as the Geth. As Commander Shepherd – playable as both a male and a female – you are sent to the planet of Eden Prime to recover an ancient Prothean beacon. Now part of the broader community of outer space, humanity is mixing it up with various alien races whilst trying to find their new place within the hierarchy. Set 176 years in the future in 2183, humanity has stumbled across Mass Relays that allow for faster than light travel. For anyone living under a rock the size of a planet, the Mass Effect trilogy has represented a high point in gaming since the first one released exclusively for the Xbox 360 back in 2007.
