Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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It's not often that a video game franchise kills off their main character, but that's exactly what BioWare® did at the beginning of Mass Effect 2. You start off the game getting ambushed by a new, unknown enemy and having your ship blasted to pieces, leaving you plummeting to your death through the atmosphere of an unknown planet. Then the title screen comes up. Talk about a gutsy way to start a game.