This means that Femshep players won’t go through the jarring experience of designing their own character, only to have the choice between sticking with them or making the jarring switch to a much better, hand-modeled version in the third game. In fact, bringing the iconic default Femshep into the complete trilogy was “one of the first things” that BioWare did on the project, according to Environment and Character Director Kevin Meek. Manage cookie settingsĪs part of the general changes to the games, the ‘iconic’ version of Female Shepard as introduced in Mass Effect 3 will now be available as the ‘default’ Shepard in both Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. BioWare aims to at least partially fix that in Mass Effect: Legendary Collection, the remastered trilogy package of all three Shepard games.

The Mass Effect games might have the ability to play as a male or female version of lead protagonist Commander Shepard, but they’ve always had something of a gender imbalance.

In Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, the iconic version of the female Shepard that appeared in Mass Effect 3 will be back-ported to the other games - but she doesn’t look exactly the same as she used to.