Commander Shepard isn’t the star of the next Mass Effect game

28 Jul 2014

Steve Wright

The next Mass Effect won’t feature Commander Shepard and crew as the game’s protagonists, a panel at SDCC revealed over the weekend.

While Shepard will make an appearance, the next Mass Effect game will be about you and “your hero”, BioWare said.

With years to go before the next Mass Effect game, we’re sure more about the game’s customisable — or not — hero will be revealed in time.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.