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Mac driver for the Xbox controller. The series is highly regarded for its narrative, character development, voice acting, the universe, and emphasis on player choice affecting the experience. The Mass Effect original trilogy takes place in a fictional version of the Milky Way towards the end of the 22nd century.
The Milky Way is inhabited by a variety of unique characters from many different sapient species, most of whom base their technological achievements on that of an ancient civilization called the Protheans. The advanced technology left by the Protheans includes quantities of a substance called 'Element Zero', which can be used to alter the mass of anything near it.
By using this 'mass effect', the galaxy's many races are able to develop technologies such as faster-than-light travel, force fields and artificial gravity. Roughly three-thousand years before the start of the series, a galactic community was formed from the remnants of the Prothean civilization. This community is headed by the Citadel Council, a bureaucratic association led by three unique species: the Asari, a race of monogendered beings closely resembling blue-skinned human women; the Salarians, an amphibious species with considerable technological prowess; and the Turians, a heavily militaristic race of raptor-like humanoids.
Over the centuries, the Council has encountered many other species that have become close political associates, while others remain independent. In , explorers on Mars discover ruins of a Prothean outpost. Additionally, Charon is discovered to be an artifact called a 'mass relay', which enables near-instantaneous travel to Arcturus; it is one of many mass relays littered about the galaxy.
Their use allows humanity to come in contact with the Citadel Council and its associate species. As of the year the time in which the first game is set , humankind is the newest species to join the galactic community and is still working to make a name for itself. Earth is a significant setting, particularly in the third instalment.
A space station known as the 'Citadel', which was discovered by the current inhabitants of the Milky Way, serves as the capitol for the galaxy; most species have an embassy there, and the Council meets there to deliberate matters of galactic import. The fourth game takes place in the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy, years after the events of its predecessor. When the Milky Way races arrive there, Heleus is embroiled in a brutal conflict between two native races: the Kett, a barbaric race obsessed with assimilating the traits of other sentient species through a process known as 'exaltation'; and the Angara, a humanoid species whose civilization has recently been targeted and nearly decimated by the Kett.
The Heleus Cluster is also the location of a series of ruins predating an advanced, spacefaring race known as the Jardaan. The Jardaan made use of powerful terraforming technologies to colonize worlds in the Heleus Cluster, which were otherwise extremely hazardous and naturally unsustainable for life. They later fled from the Heleus Cluster three centuries before the arrival of the Milky Way races, when a protracted battle against an unknown enemy faction resulted in the usage of a weapon of mass destruction aboard a Jardaan space station.
The weapon's activation unleashed a cataclysmic energy phenomenon known as the Scourge, which spread across the cluster and greatly damaged the Jardaan's terraforming systems.
After the Jardaan left, the Angara, genetically engineered creations of the elder race, began to develop their own civilization before falling under attack by the encroaching Kett. A trilogy of games has been released, each continuing the previous game's story in chronological order.
The Mass Effect series combines action role-playing game elements, with the main series games being in third-person perspective. The protagonist can use two AI-controlled squad members in battle, which usually consist of members he or she has recruited from various places and for various reasons, and taken onto the SSV Normandy , Shepard's stealth-recon starship.
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