BioWare's Mass Effect

The Mass Effect video game series is a rare achievement in science fiction and gaming, pushing the boundaries of how the genre is experienced and understood. This book analyzes its significance for an understanding of the evolving SF genre and offers an explanatory framework for its landmark reception in videogame history. It appeals to scholars, students, fans, consumers, gamers, and general readers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 26 November 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

The Mass Effect video game series is a remarkable rarity, not only for being an original science-fiction franchise of recent vintage that has achieved such prominent commercial and critical success in popular culture, but also for pushing the canonical boundaries of how science fiction as a genre will be experienced and understood in the future. This book examines the significance of the game for an understanding of the evolving science fiction genre and articulates an explanatory framework to delineate its landmark reception in the history of video games. This book both synthesizes the burgeoning body of scholarship on Mass Effect for a readership unfamiliar with either the game or the critical conversation on its salient importance, while simultaneously, for readers already invested in the science-fiction and video game scholarship, mounting an extended inquiry as to why Mass Effect has served as such a representative milestone in the history of video games and genres. The book should appeal to veteran science-fiction and video game scholars and students as well as a wide variety of fans, consumers, gamers, and general readers.

Weight: 279g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031188756
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023