Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition cover art

Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Game Information

One person is all that stands between humanity and the greatest threat it’s ever faced. Relive the legend of Commander Shepard in the highly acclaimed Mass Effect trilogy with the Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition. Includes single-player base content and over 40 DLC from Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 games, including promo weapons, armors and packs — remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD.

Experience an amazingly rich and detailed universe where your decisions have profound consequences on the action and the outcome.

Relive the Cinematic Saga

Heart-pounding action meets gripping interactive storytelling, where you decide how your unique story unfolds.
  • Three Games, One Launcher: Play through the single-player base content and over 40 DLC from all three games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs.
  • Remastered for a New Generation: Experience the trilogy in 4K Ultra HD with enhanced performance, visuals, and graphics, all available in HDR.
  • Visual Improvements on All 3 Games: Updates include enhanced models, shaders, FX, lighting and depth of field, plus full-resolution audio.

Experience the Legend of Shepard

Create and customize your own character — from appearance and skills to a personalized arsenal — then lead your elite recon squad across a galaxy in turmoil.
  • New Shepard Customizations: With improved hair, makeup, eye color and skin tones you can create your Shepard in a unified character creator with all options available across the full trilogy, or choose to play as the iconic Femshep from Mass Effect 3 now available in all titles.
  • Gameplay Enhancements for the First Mass Effect Game: Enjoy improved aiming and weapons balance, SFX, better Mako controls, input/controls, squad behavior, cover behavior and gameplay cameras.

Reflect on Your Choices

Your choices seamlessly travel from one game to the next. Each decision you make will control the outcome of every mission, every relationship, every battle — and even the fate of the galaxy itself.
  • Visual Enhancements for the First Mass Effect Game: The game's been given a full world-building pass including environmental art, VFX and level relighting.
  • PC Updates: Enjoy a modernized PC experience across all three games with native controller and 21:9 widescreen support, user interface navigation improvements, and DirectX 11 compatibility.

Included Content

Mass Effect Legendary Edition includes single-player base content for all 3 titles (Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3), your favorite single-player story DLC, promo weapons, armors and packs:
  • DLC: Bring Down the Sky, Genesis, Zaeed — The Price of Revenge, Kasumi — Stolen Memory, Lair of the Shadow Broker, Firewalker Pack, Overlord, Normandy Crash Site, Arrival, Genesis 2, From Ashes, Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, Leviathan, Omega and Citadel.
  • Weapons and Armor: Cerberus Weapons and Armor, Arc Projector, Collector's Weapon and Armor, Terminus Weapon and Armor, M-21 Incisor, Blood Dragon Armor, Inferno Armor, Recon Hood, Sentry Interface, Umbra Visor, N7 Warfare Gear, AT-12 Raider, Chakram Launcher, M-55 Argus, M-90 Indra and Reckoner Knight Armor.
  • Packs: Equalizer Pack, Aegis Pack, Firepower Pack, Groundside Resistance Pack, Recon Operations Pack, Firefight Pack, ME2 Alternate Appearance Pack 1, ME2 Alternate Appearance Pack 2, ME3 Alternate Appearance Pack 1, and N7 Collector's Edition Pack.

Mac Performance Stats

Experience Reports

4

Play Methods

Native0
CrossOver4
Parallels0
Other0

Average Rating

3.8/5

Experience Reports

CrossOver

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CrossOver

CrossOver

v26.2
NONEUNPLAYABLE
M2 BASE
Graphics:
HIGH
Machine:
MacBook Air
Chip:
M2 BASE
Cores:
8 CPU, 10 GPU
RAM:
8 GB

Review Note:

The game shows random error reports like follows:
Wine C++ Runtime Library
Assertion Failed!
Programs CitProgram Files (x86)|Steamlsteamapps ¡commonMass Effect Legendary Edition|Game\ME1 Binaries\ Win64\MassEffecti,exe File: /winejols/mmdevapi/mmdevapi_private.h Line: 120
Expression: “’status”
Press OK to exit the program, or Cancel to start the wine debugger.

No fix after mmdevapi rename nor delete, only opens with -nosound command via steam.

CrossOver

CrossOver

v25.0.1
NONEEXCELLENT
M4 BASE
Graphics:
ULTRA
Resolution:
QHD
Hardware:
M4 BASE

Review Note:

Works great! Didn't need to adjust any of the bottle's graphics settings.

The game ran with no sound but I found a solution for this:

Open the c: drive for the bottle, and go to this folder:
Mass Effect Launcher - English Voice and multisubs

While in this folder, run "MassEffectLauncher.exe" you'll find there via CrossOver, and you'll notice that it has an extra option that's not available in the default launcher, which is "English VO", tick this option, try to run the game via this launcher but it won't run, then run it again through the main launcher from the bottle main screen and sound should be working fine with no issues!

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CrossOver

CrossOver

v26.0
D3D_METALEXCELLENT
M4 BASE
Graphics:
ULTRA
FPS:
60
Resolution:
2040x858
Machine:
Mac mini
Chip:
M4 BASE
Cores:
10 CPU, 10 GPU
RAM:
16 GB

Screenshots:

Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
CrossOver

CrossOver

v26.1
DXMTEXCELLENT
M4 PRO
Graphics:
ULTRA
FPS:
60
Resolution:
1920x1200
Machine:
MacBook Pro
Chip:
M4 PRO
Cores:
12 CPU, 16 GPU
RAM:
24 GB

Review Note:

So far have tested ME1. Performs great but requires specific settings to mitigate hitching and stutters.

DXMT performs better than D3DMetal which causes frequent hitching.

Msync OFF, otherwise this also causes hitching and stutters. V-sync OFF for same reason. High res mode disabled.

Unable to launch with MetalHub overlay so not sure of exact Fps but it is clearly running consistently at 60fps or higher and is as smooth as.a native game. Still, there is the occasional stutter, not intrusive, likely frame pacing issue or asset loading. Otherwise it is perfect. Will update when ME2 and 3 are tested