On her loyalty mission, you have to make the decision between Samara dying or killing Morinth, her deadly fugitive offspring. However you play Samara across ME2 and ME3, Shakespearean death follows, making her one of Mass Effect's most tragic characters.
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She's Judge Dredd with a serial killer daughter. If you left her on Virmire, we cannot be friends. She deserves better than 13th place and the 'space racist' meme. She's more than a sidekick and you get the impression that she could have been the main character had she not been wrenched away from the Prothean beacon at the start of the first game. She's among the few characters to seriously question Shepard's decisions, particularly when it comes to Cerberus, and she's willing to challenge you-at gunpoint, if necessary-when she feels that you're in the wrong.
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But I'll give you the short version: Ash is one of the most substantially well-rounded characters in the series and one of the few that doesn't need Shepard to step in and fix her life. Earlier in the year I wrote a long defense of Ash Williams for Official Xbox Magazine, which appeared on our sister site GamesRadar+ in November.
This isn't the most disappointed I've been by democracy in 2016, but it's in the top five.
I voted Ashley for 3rd place, behind Garrus and Mordin. Look, I'm very sorry everybody, but 13th place is a travesty. She's not many people's favourite character, clearly, but I'm just relieved she beat Kaidan and James Vega in this list. I'm aware you can find Kasumi in Mass Effect 3 and its Citadel DLC, although sadly I didn't for some reason, even though I kept her alive in Mass Effect 2. In battle, Kasumi's Shadow Strike ability means she's one of the game's more visually interesting party members, too, vanishing and then popping up behind an enemy to damage them. You're rewarded with a total gut punch of an ending that perfectly completes her arc. It becomes clear to Shepard how badly she's been wounded by his death, and you get to help her exact revenge on Donovan Hock, his killer. Her back story with Keiji, her former partner in crime, is explored in a powerful, heartfelt way in her Stealing Memory loyalty mission. Kasumi's Stolen Memory is probably my favourite DLC across the Mass Effect trilogy-it lets Shepard play at being James Bond by infiltrating a party at a mansion, and Kasumi's introduction as a slick, invisible thief (as well as something of a loner) makes her seem very different to the rest of the Normandy's crew.
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The PC Gamer team voted on the companions, ranking them from 1-20 to create this: the truly definitive list of the best Mass Effect sidekicks to have kinky alien sex go space adventuring with. I knew publishing my list would be a bloodbath, so we decided on a compromise: let democracy decide (but seriously Jack is the worst, no matter what this list may say).
First the characters are fun diversions, filling out the world with lore. Numerous races, numerous motivations, numerous personalities - all make the cast of companion characters fun and cool and engaging. With all those personalities, both heroic and villainous, there's got to be someone out in the galaxy that matches up with you, right? One character who really made you think, "oh yeah, that's me.BioWare built on the template it established with Knights of the Old Republic throughout the Mass Effect series. It also doesn't hurt that the game has a great story and also some really intensely interesting and varied characters. Part one and part three also rank in the 90s across multiple platforms, and it's that kind of consistently awesome content that made fans fall in love with it. The Xbox version has a 96 aggregate rating right now. "Mass Effect 2" is one of the top-reviewed games ever made. The games have consistently pulled down incredible reviews, especially the series' second game.
When "Mass Effect" showed up in 2007, could anyone have predicted just how big the franchise would become? Over 17 million copies of the various games in the series have been sold, cementing "Mass Effect" as one of the most popular video game series of all time.