Mass Effect: Andromeda

Mass Effect: Andromeda is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows computers and PlayStation 4, and Xbox One consoles. Released worldwide in March 2017, it is the fourth major entry in the Mass Effect series and the first since Mass Effect 3. The game itself is both a prequel and sequel, as the story begins between the second and third games (with some fans calling the first three games the "Reaper Wars" or "Shepard" trilogy for ease of classification.

The game begins within the Milky Way Galaxy during the 22nd century, near the end of Mass Effect 2, where thousands of people, humans and aliens, are planning to leave the Milky Way and populate new home worlds in the Andromeda Galaxy as part of a strategy called the Andromeda Initiative. The player character is chosen from two customization twins form the Ryder family; the male's default name is Scott and the female's default name is Sara. The character is an inexperienced military recruit who joins the Initiative and wakes up in Andromeda following a 634-year journey. Events transpire after they first make planetfall that result in Ryder becoming humanity's Pathfinder, tasked with finding a new home world for humanity while trying to unite the various factions inside and outside the Initiative, dealing with an antagonistic alien race, the kett, and uncovering the secrets of a mysterious synthetic race, the Remnant.


 * Abandoned Mine: The Remnant Vaults are this >
 * Absolute Xenophobe:
 * The kett, which is obvious given their story role.
 * The Roekaar, a faction of the angara, hate everyone who isn't an angara with a passion given their first contact experience was with the kett and the more aggressive members of the Initiative. This hatred continues even after Ryder and co have proven the Initiative's good qualities and helped them rebuild their society.  Ironically, this trope is also a key characteristic of their sworn enemies, the kett..
 * Absurdly High Level Cap: The current level cap is 135. Most players will be at or around lvl 65-70 by the time they finish the game. Only in a "New Game +" second playthrough (or by abusing experience glitches) can you reach the cap.
 * The Ace: Each species on each Ark has one military officer form that race called the "Pathfinder". Their job is to establish their civilization and is chosen from an individual believed to be the best positive example of their respective species.
 * Adaptational Modesty:
 * Affably Evil:.
 * Alien Blood: Among the Andromeda species encountered, the angara have bright-blue blood while the kett,, all have browish-green blood.
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: There are a large amount of characters and pieces of technology similar to ones from the original triolgy
 * Ascendants - Banshees : Both kett Ascendants and Banshees can be described as a Boss in Mooks Clothing and have very similar combat mechanics.  They even have a similar physique and lack of personality (albeit Scary Dogmatic Aliens the former has different reasons for that than Slave Race the latter)
 * Cora Harper - Miranda Lawson: They are both human female soldiesr who start out cold and apparently unfeeling but warm up - particularly to the protagonist - during the story if he right options are chosen. They are even a potential love interest for a male player character.  They even share an admiration for asari culture, though Cora almost went native where Miranda just had moderate respect.  Cora has also been compared to Kaidan Alenko, given her societal issues based on her biotics and being the more level-headed human squadmate.
 * Director Tann - Ambassador Udina: The parallel is particularly strong with Udina's character in the first game. Both of them serve the role of a smug and obstructive authority figure who provides the main character with their ship.  They both, ironically despite their respective positions, lack diplomatic skill, second guess the main character stab people in the back when it's convenient for them (though Udina lacked Tann's racism).
 * Drack - Wrex: Each of them is a Badass Grandpa of a battle hardened krogan, with hundreds of years of combat experience under their belts. Both join the player character to fight a common enemy and because they enjoy fighting and blowing things up.  They even have a similar stoic personality with hidden depths and a prone to making dry comments.  Some of these traits are also shared with the krogan Grunt from the second game.
 * Fiends - Brutes: Both of them are bulky, armored melee fighters with similar combat mechanics and both are made from.
 * Gil - Ken Donnelly: Both of them are snarky ship engineers with a penchant for poker. To drive home the parallel further, in Dummied Out content from the second game, Ken was also intended as an optional love interest.
 * Hydras - Atlas mechs: Both are heavily armored Mini-Mecha that serve as Elite Mooks of their respective enemy types, to the point that they have some similar visual cues and a similar attack method.
 * Kett - Reapers: Though the kett lack much of the power, threat level and context of the Reapers, they fill a similar role in the story of being the overarching villains of the game who look down on everyone else and see them as at best a resource, and at worst something to be wiped out. The game even ends.
 * Liam Kosta - Jacob Taylor: They are similar to the point that the former could be the latter with the serial numbers filed off.  They are their respective team's Token Minority black guy (unless the player made Ryder/Shepard black as well respectively).  Both tried their hands at peacekeeping state jobs that they grew dissatisfied with (police work/Alliance black-ops) before they joined an exceedingly powerful private organisation (Andromeda Initiative/Cerberus).  They even have a similar introduction in the story in tandem with a human woman adept at military-grade biotics and tech skills (Cora/Miranda).  Both have a similar fighting style, personality and  are romance options for the female Player Character.  However, his passionate personality compared to Cora's has been compared to squadmate Ashley Williams' dynamic with Kaidan Alenko.
 * Nexus - Citadel: Both are massive space stations intended to form the seat of power and hub of galactic society.  The Nexus is even intended to be to Andromeda what the Citadel is to the Milky Way,.
 * Peebee - Liara: They are both quirky, socially awkward young asari (though Peebee is extroverted where Liara is introverted) who research ancient alien technology they are fascinated with.  They both are also bisexual love interests for the player character who are open to polyamorous relationships (hard to find dialogue in the first game implied Liara was open to a threesome with Kaidan or Ashley if Shepard created a Love Triangle situation]].  They both even meet under similar circumstances in an ancient building filled with hostile robots.  Peebee also plays an equivalent role in understanding Remnant technology to Liara's with the Prothean beacons.
 * Remnant - Protheans: They are both mysterious Precursors that left behind large amounts of technology that are ancient and function. They even have a similar aesthetic to the Protheans, with dark colors and being covered in Tron Lines. Their weapons utilize Beam Spam instead of more down-to-earth alternatives., while a handful of non-Protheans could use their technology in the original trilogy, here only The Hero pulls it off.  The Remnant also have a parallel role to the geth, being an antagonistic group of mysterious and hostile machines, but not the main threat.
 * Suvi Anwar - Kelly Chambers: They are slightly socially awkward redheads who are non-heterosexual and a potential romance partner for the player character; the only major difference being Kelly could be romanced by the male or female Shepherd while Suvi is just into female Ryder (and politely rejects male Ryder when she thinks he's flirting with her). They even have first names that rhyme.
 * Vetra - Garrus and Tali: While Vetra and Garrus are both tech-savvy, visor-wearing turians who play by their own rules and advocate bending them to do what's right, Vetra's personality is more like Tali's; creative, open-minded and caring.
 * Weapons: Many of the weapons Ryder can acquire in the game are counterparts of the same type of weapons from the trilogy. Examples include the angaran Ushior pistol working like the krogan Executioner pistol and the kett Rozerad submachine gun with a similar damage output to the  Geth Plasma SMG.