BioWare is a Canadian video game developer based in Edmonton, Alberta and known for developing Western RPGs. To read more on the best BioWare game ever and one of the greatest RPGs of all time – Mass Effect 2 – be sure to get your eyes on this retrospective feature. Mass Effect 2 was a spectacular sci-fi game, but it also had a heart – that’s just one of the reasons why it left quite the impression of a generation of players. It’s a smartly constructed action-RPG that culminated in an iconic set-piece – a thrilling suicide run where your relationships, actions and decisions were all funnelled into a hellish gauntlet that would ultimately help to decide the fate of those around you. It should come as no surprise then that Mass Effect 2 is also the definitive BioWare experience. This, combined with the fantastically written and well acted cast of companion characters, helped Mass Effect 2 establish itself as the definitive RPG of the last decade. When this space opera continuation first released almost a decade ago, it moved the role-playing genre forward thanks in part to the ability to import your Shepard from the first game, carrying over all of your previous decisions and relationships with you – your choices throughout the game were informed by history and it felt like they had real weight to them as a result. The second part of our Shepard’s story certainly had a tough act to follow but it somehow managed to become a standout sequel that built on the original in almost every way imaginable. KOTOR established a model that BioWare would return to time and time again as it looked to broaden its horizons with Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age. All of this set the stage for an iconic narrative twist that many still talk about to this day. KOTOR is often praised for its strong dialogue and memorable travelling companions, but its crowning achievement was in the way it allowed our character’s development and alignment with the Force to directly intertwine with the world, story and combat design. In transporting players back thousands of years before any of the movies – into a time where the Jedi were all but wiped out by the Sith – BioWare had the space to carve out its own piece of the universe to play in and we received the best Star Wars game as a result. There’s a reason KOTOR is often cited as one of the most influential installments to the Star Wars Expanded Universe and one of the most important RPGs of the modern era – because it is an absolutely incredible achievement.
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