Now this may be a trio of games but these games intermingle and effect each other so much that they may as well all be one game. Created by BioWare, EA and many other studios Mass Effect is an epic sci-fi, tactical shooter, role playing game set in the year 2183. Action packed and character focused, you take the place of Commander Shepherd and make decisions for him as he deals with alien threats to humanity and the galaxy as a whole. The Mass Effect Trilogy was a project on a scale to match Star Wars with seven studios contributing to its completion over the course of almost a whole decade.

There is a fourth game by the name Mass Effect: Andromeda. However this is not included in this is because it does not integrate with the older games and provides its own experience to the audience.

Humanity has made a place for itself among the stars under the leadership of an organisation known as the Systems Alliance. The Alliance is a member state of the Citadel Council representing humanity in Galactic affairs that effect dozens of hyper advanced races who all interact with one another on a daily basis on a massive space installation called the Citadel. One could think of the Citadel Council as a kind of Interstellar UN.

This is one of those epic games that just have so much to explore, hundreds of planets, dozens of characters, backstories, history lore and so much more. It is staggering to see how much detail the creators, put into it.

This detail extends from biology, physics, psychology and life of hundreds of beings to a full history of humanity between modern day and 2183 long intricate histories of the other main races such as the Turians, the galaxy's military super power, Salarians, the galaxy's best scientists and the Asari, a long lived race extremely adept in intergalactic organisation, administration and politics. 

The majority of the games is spent preparing going from planet to planet fighting to unite the galaxy and prepare for an attack by the main villain race of the franchise, the Reapers. The Reapers are a race of colossal space fairing robots with self aware artificial intelligence who seek to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy and Commander Shepherd is the only one who can stop them. Classic action hero stuff.

What could not be expected was the hours upon hours of gaming time one would end up sinking into making new and meaningful friendships with all sorts of talented, interesting people along the way. Lovable characters like Tali, the alien engineer who once got drunk and called her straw "an emergency induction port" or Garrus, the weapons expert who is always there for his friends to at the very least drop a quick witty comment or two before the guns start firing.

It comes as no surprise that the Mass Effect Trilogy turned out to be an outstanding series of games. A great deal of effort and resources were poured into the creation of them and it all paid off with a magnificent experience one can waste too much time in trying relive with several playthroughs.