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4 unusual facts about Mass Effect


Element 0

Element Zero, or eezo, the technology that allows faster-than-light travel (and countless other useful effects) in the video game series Mass Effect.

Hammasa Kohistani

One of Kohistani's portraits on stock photo site Getty Images was used as the basis for the face of quarian character Tali'Zorah vas Normandy from the Mass Effect series of video games.

Jillian Murray

Murray's face and body were used as the model for the character of Liara T'soni in the Mass Effect franchise of video games.

Mass Effect: Redemption

The comic will be published by Dark Horse Comics and is written by Mac Walters, who was a lead writer for Mass Effect, with scripting by John Jackson Miller and art by Omar Francia, both of whom have previously worked on Star Wars related comics.


Dannah Phirman

She has recently provided voices for the video game Mass Effect as well as White Knight Chronicles: International Edition.

Entertainment Consumers Association

The association distinguished itself early by weighing in publicly on issues that the parallel trade associations did not, including standing in defense of the game Mass Effect and its developer, BioWare, during the related controversy surrounding supposed sexualization of the product.

Information broker

An example of an information broker in contemporary fiction would be DC Comics' superheroine, the Oracle, Edward G. Robinson's character Sol in the film Soylent Green, the Shadow Broker in the video game series Mass Effect, Nicholas Wayne, Rachel, Elean Duga, Gustav St. Germain, Carol, and the President of the Daily Days newspaper company in Baccano!, or Izaya Orihara in the anime Durarara!!.

Non-player character

Other role-playing games with branching dialogues include Cosmic Soldier, Megami Tensei, Fire Emblem, Metal Max, Langrisser, SaGa, Ogre Battle, Chrono, Star Ocean, Sakura Wars, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Radiant Historia, and several Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games.

Raphael Sbarge

He also has voice acted for video games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords as Carth Onasi; as RC-1262 "Scorch" in Star Wars: Republic Commando; and as Kaidan Alenko in Mass Effect and its sequels Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3.


see also

Cavernous sinus

Cavernous sinus syndrome may result from mass effect of these tumors and cause ophthalmoplegia (from compression of the oculomotor nerve, trochlear nerve, and abducens nerve), ophthalmic sensory loss (from compression of the ophthalmic nerve), and maxillary sensory loss (from compression of the maxillary nerve).

Garrus

Garrus Vakarian, a fictional character and "squad member" in the Mass Effect video game trilogy

Jack Harper

Jack Harper, the real identiy of the Illusive Man in the Mass Effect video game series