Mass Effect 2 (2010)

Author: Bioware

People will forever argue about the best game in this series, but at its heart Mass Effect is a sci-fi action RPG, and it's in this title that it fully delivers that feeling. Bioware has honed the art design and story while also making combat more entertaining and fast-paced. It's the characters that really populate this game, however, from the genetically perfect Miranda to the ship's captain, Joker, and various alien races. Each crew member you collect throughout the course of the story has their own personality, preferences, and failures, making for an emotional journey and real development. A larger thread pulls it all together, however: a mission to halt a race of malignant AI that is hell-bent on destroying the universe. As Commander Shephard, you are one of the few who can stop that spread, but you'll need your crew beside you. As the invasion reaches a crescendo, so does the story, pulling you into a galactic world of warring nations and cybernetic powers.