The team took cues from “Mass Effect 3,” bringing certain looks and mechanics from that game into “Mass Effect 1,” including its cover system and an adapted combat UI.

However, there is a little more to your Total Military Strength number than you might realize at first glance. Now, the system takes into account all your choices from Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2.

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The franchise director of Mass Effect suggests the next game will recapture much of what made the original so impactful but gives little detail about how. Skip to main content Menu ...

Behind all of that is Mass Effect’s signature morality system, which lets you choose to play Shepard as a truth and justice-style Paragon or a Renegade who gets the job done by their own rules.

I think if we had thrown out the system, we would have definitely lost a lot of people on the ‘Mass Effect 1 is my favorite game’ side.” The changes are indeed numerous.