The video games have had high sales, with the last major game of the original trilogy, Mass Effect 3, shipping over 3.5 million copies in its first week of release. The Mass Effect franchise also includes three mobile games, each with a different gameplay style seven novels, some written by BioWare writers and some by science fiction authors four art books ten comic book series or mini-comics and their anthologies a coloring book an animated film a 3D theme park ride and eleven soundtrack albums or singles. A fourth main series game, Mass Effect: Andromeda, was released in 2017. Composed of multi-platform video games and associated media, the core of the franchise is an eponymous trilogy of action role-playing third-person shooter video games, released between 20, which follow Commander Shepard's mission to save the galaxy from a race of mechanical beings known as the Reapers.
Mass Effect is a science fiction media franchise set in an alternate universe in the 3rd millenium developed by the Canadian video game company BioWare.
