Mass Effect Legendary Edition free download available now

This is a friendly reminder that Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is still a brilliant experience and is available on Xbox Game Pass via EA Play.

You can see this as a PSA and a gentle, but still forceful, reminder to play it and experience the whole trilogy all over again. Or for the first time if you’ve been slacking and never got around to it.

Want more Sci-Fi space shenanigans? Check out Starfield's first official expansion later this year

Despite the name, which could have you believe that only the first game was remastered, you can find the full trilogy on Xbox Game Pass in this lovely title.

Yes, you’ve probably heard that the third part of the well-loved trilogy didn’t exactly land well with fans, however, the ending that was once such a sticking point was finessed after launch and makes for a better experience now.

This rounds out a trio of games that are considered by many to be tremendous RPGs that managed to combine action-packed battles with delicate storytelling and a brilliant cast of characters.

Bioware, for many, are the masters of RPG crafting and the Mass Effect games can be seen as the pinnacle of their work.

With a scale akin to literary space operas, the games managed to focus in on humanity and our reach across the galaxy despite the impending doom of alien races.

Everything you could ever want is here, including the ability to romance the heck out of your crew - which should really bring in the HR department because there’s a conflict of interests there, surely.

Yes, you still manage to protect the galaxy, but it’s in a James T. Kirk kind of way, where you’re happy to save the day, but it’ll be done while trying to bed down with a sexy alien.

Anyway, get your Xbox (or PC) get onto Game Pass, and download this one. If you haven’t played them before, you’re in for a heck of a ride.