Mass Effect category
Story Guides
13 entries tagged Story Guides, 13 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Mass Effect 2 Story Explained: Plot Summary and the Suicide Mission and Mass Effect 3 Story and Ending Explained: Destroy, Control, Synthesis and Refuse.
- How Did Shepard Not Get Indoctrinated?The games never say Shepard is immune to indoctrination. Shepard just never spends long enough near Reaper technology for it to take hold. Here's what the trilogy shows, what the Indoctrination Theory claims, and what the Extended Cut did to that theory.
- How Did Shepard Survive Mass Effect 2? The Lazarus Project ExplainedShepard didn't survive. The Commander died when the Collectors destroyed the Normandy, and Cerberus spent two years rebuilding the body in the Lazarus Project. Here's how it worked, who recovered the body and what Mass Effect 3 later confirmed.
- Is Garrus Romanceable in Mass Effect?Yes, but only for a female Shepard, and only from Mass Effect 2 onwards. Here's how the Garrus romance works in each game, where it peaks and what happens to it at the end of the trilogy.
- Is Shepard in the Next Mass Effect?BioWare hasn't said. The teasers keep pointing back at Shepard, with N7 armour in the snow and a Shadow Broker who looks a lot like Liara, but nothing official confirms Commander Shepard as a character in the next game.
- Every Mass Effect Book and Comic in OrderAll seven Mass Effect novels and every Dark Horse comic, listed by publication date and then by where they fall in the story. Four novels belong to the Shepard era, three to Andromeda, and the comics fill in the gaps between the games.
- What Happened to Garrus's Family in Mass Effect?Garrus's father and sister were trapped on Palaven when the Reapers attacked in Mass Effect 3, and Garrus later hears they got off the planet. His mother was seriously ill. Here's everything the games and comics say about the Vakarians.
- What Happened to Shepard After Mass Effect 3? Every EndingIt depends on the ending. Shepard dies in Control, Synthesis and Refuse, and can survive only in Destroy, with a strong enough war effort. Here's what happens to Shepard in each ending, what the epilogues show and what later games have said.
- Mass Effect Story Explained: Plot Summary and Ending of the First GameThe plot of the first Mass Effect in order, from the geth attack on Eden Prime to the Battle of the Citadel. Who Saren is, what Sovereign wants, and what each ending choice changes.
- Mass Effect 2 Story Explained: Plot Summary and the Suicide MissionThe plot of Mass Effect 2 in order, from Shepard's death and revival to the suicide mission through the Omega 4 Relay. Who the Collectors are, what they were building, and how the ending can go.
- Mass Effect 3 Story and Ending Explained: Destroy, Control, Synthesis and RefuseThe Mass Effect 3 story in order and every ending explained: what the Catalyst is, what Destroy, Control, Synthesis and Refuse each do, and what the Extended Cut changed.
- Mass Effect: Andromeda Story ExplainedThe plot of Mass Effect: Andromeda in order, from the Hyperion's arrival in the Heleus Cluster to the battle for Meridian. Who the kett are, what the Remnant vaults do, and what the ending leaves open.
- Mass Effect Games in Order: Release Order, Story Order and DLCEvery Mass Effect game in order, from Shepard's first mission in 2183 to the Andromeda Initiative in 2819. Release order and story order are the same list, so the real questions are which DLC to play, where Andromeda fits and whether the Legendary Edition is the way in.
- Mass Effect Story Explained: the Trilogy and AndromedaThe whole Mass Effect story in order, one game at a time. Shepard stops Saren, beats the Collectors and leads the galaxy against the Reapers, then Andromeda starts again 600 years later in another galaxy.