Engagement

Game Info

Title-Mass Effect (one, two and three)

Type-Video Game

Genre- RPG, Shooter

Age- Mature (17+)

A Little About The Game

Mass effect is a game all about your choices and how they effect to changing world around you. You play as a created character that everyone refers to as Command Shepard. You and two other selected from a pool of slowly amassed allies travel around interacting to the random situations at hand. It can be as simple as helping a man find his ID or as massive as saving an entire race from a complete genocide. The cool part about mass effect is that you can move you character cross games. They won't keep their levels or equipment but, all of you choices made in the previous games carry over making the game feel much more tailored to your way of things. The game stay a game by challenging the player with intense fire fights that require quick thinking and micro management of your other two squad mates. The enemies get progressively stronger to match your increasing experience and better weapons that are acquired throughout the game. In the fire fights it all depends on what class you picked. Only certain classes can uses certain weapons and abilities. So everyone who plays this game will probably go through a different experience than some of the other people who played the game. You do have to worry about three things no mater who you play though. First your shields and health. If your health hits zero, game over. You go back to your last save point and try again. Second is your squads health. While normally they can do well on their own, you need to be sure to provide occasional support when it is needed. Lastly you need to worry about the objective. If it's to kill all of the enemies you only need to worry about you. If you need to guard a person or object then prepare to fight waves of enemies until you can leave the area. Overall the game has a balance of story and shooting so no matter what you consider a challenge it's there.

 

What makes it special?

 

I chose Mass Effect as an engaging game mostly because of the choices. You really see how you effect people around you and how you make a difference, for better or worse. While playing you get this sense that you are the character because the choices and questions you ask are all based on your actions. Relationships are formed, allies and enemies are made, people are killed and races can be saved. It's all based on what you pick. You decide what you become and how you effect the world around you. The gunfights also pick on this a little. Due to the fact that this game uses a skill tree you build yourself for your style of combat. Are you a sniper, A rough and tumble in your face kinda guy or even a powerful biotic( a biotic is a mage-like guy who uses mind powers!).  The game engages the player with limited choices but, without making you feel too forced down a linear path. This game probably get you as close to the game as you can be in today's gaming world. I think that this game is one of the more engaging games out there and all because of the choices. You even get to make little choices like, "do I want to explore this world and learn the lore?" or "do I want to rush through and kill as many people as possible?" or even a bit in between. This game trys to engage the player by letting them set their own path and priorities so you can really experience the game the way you want to. That is why the Mass Effect series gets my highlight of the week.