Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a welcome revival of a brilliant sci-fi series that demonstrated the importance of player input in video games.

Quake, Doom, Call of Duty. These are all games that had a lasting impact on how video games within their genres evolved. For fans of role playing games (RPGs), BioWare’s early action RPGs like Mass Effect helped to show the impact players could have on a game when they were actually given the control to make meaningful decisions in the story.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition perfectly captures the core of the original titles without ever stepping too far outside the box or trying to improve upon the original experience, which is both good and bad.

The original Mass Effect trilogy is a gem and not to be missed for any role-playing game fan. While the games are still available as standalone titles, having them all bundled together is especially useful, as it allowed BioWare to modernize some things while also making it easier for fans new and old to dive in and get lost in Commander Shepard’s epic journey.