Mass Effect is a franchise that blends bits and pieces from Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, and probably a few other science-fiction universes. And it’s good. Really good. So good, that the notion only truly original content can be great is completely obliterated in its wake.
The critical darling of the moment, the commercial success, the video game that looks more like a film than any other video game before it, L.A. Noire — it kind of sucks. There. I said it.