ItвЂ™s like in the remastered version of Halo: Combat Evolved. You return to Eden Prime in Mass Effect 3 and itвЂ™s much greyer - the orange and red hues of the planet under attack visited two games prior are little more than a distant, seemingly inaccurate memory.Д«ut thatвЂ™s the power of this, for me. This is where you first learn that something is amiss in the Milky Way, that you canвЂ™t quite trust all of the information youвЂ™re being given and that entire human colonies are being subjected to an unknowable, nefarious force. Related: Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Preview - Skippable Elevators, Improved Mako, And MoreД®den Prime, on the other hand, really does look far too pretty. I think it looks far too pretty, but I hope IвЂ™ll be proved wrong. Based on that single image, though, IвЂ™m concerned that the most aesthetically distinct and fascinating alien landscape of the entire first game has been madeвЂ¦ less alien. Admittedly, all we saw of the latter was a screenshot, so it could be totally fine.

My qualm, though, is with Eden Prime, as well as - to an extent - Ilos. I was always curious about how a respecced Citadel might look, and I canвЂ™t help admitting that BioWare did a far better job than I ever could have imagined. The war-ravaged skyscrapers of Feros are even more imposingly desolate when their fissures and fractures are exposed to harsh sunlight, and wow does the Citadel look spectacular. Also, this specific technique - moving the sun, the main source of light illuminating a scene - is put to excellent use elsewhere. It looks far better than I ever could have reasonably expected it to given that this is a remaster, not a remake. Let me be clear: the first Mass Effect game looks fantastic. It looked immensely pretty and I was stunned - although in hindsight, IвЂ™m not sure if I was impressed. This was then confirmed by one of the devs guiding us through the preview - the sun had been cleanly hoisted out of its position at the rear in order to be propped up right in front of where you land on Eden Prime, shining bright above the desolate plains below. The first thing I noticed was that the sun was in front of me.

And so, when I was told we were on our way to Eden Prime during my hands-off preview of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition last week, my nostalgia pistons fired into overdrive. ThatвЂ™s how I remember my first experience with the Mass Effect series: terrifying spikes skewering weird husks, the shapes of which were made vague by thinly-veiled, orange fog.

The sun behind their backs, they press on towards an unimaginable predicament, each step bringing them further into the planetвЂ™s distinctly dreary hellscape, all shrouded in orangeish fog. As the SSV Normandy approaches its location, however, it becomes strikingly clear that danger is afoot - and so, Commander Shepard disembarks on Eden Prime with his strike team, guns at the ready. A research team has just uncovered a rare Prothean beacon, which has been primed for immediate extraction.

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