While the Windows PC via Origin release will download all 100GB+ of the title as soon as you initialise it, the Xbox One/Series version will download a meagre 28GB in total.

The titles are available through a single launcher, though via Origin the interface seemingly hides a transition between three separate games on Xbox it’s a bit more seamless, but that comes at a slight cost as well. It’s decidedly not a remake - it’s the original games running in Unreal Engine 3 with a lot of uprezzed textures and effects - but I’ll be damned if I didn’t do a double take when jumping between the Xbox 360 originals (via backwards compatibility on Xbox Series X) and this new release. Legendary Edition bundles the franchise’s first trilogy (but play Andromeda too because, frankly, it didn’t deserve the hate) and over 40 pieces of DLC (RIP, Pinnacle Station) in up to 120FPS on consoles - higher on PC - and up to 4K resolution. Simply put, I consider myself somewhat of an authority here. For a large chunk of those Achievements I put in another hundred or so hours back in February of this year gearing up for today.

While it’s utterly impossible to have gone through every single minute of Legendary Edition‘s Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 in the two or so days I’ve had access to it, I come at the franchise with hundreds of hours already logged - and 171 of a total 179 Achievements across the original Xbox 360 releases. Mass Effect Legendary Edition hits consoles and PC tomorrow, and Stevivor was able to put the remastered trilogy through its paces (at least, in part) on both Windows PC via Origin and Xbox One via Xbox Series X ahead of that time. I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite trilogy on the Citadel.

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