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Mass Effect 1 Legendary Edition Vs. Original - Split Screen Gameplay Comparison (Intro and Prelude)

Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

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A video comparing the original Mass Effect 1 (2007) with the recently released Mass Effect Legendary Edition (2021) remaster.

Care was taken to match both sequences exactly. Default Shepard used, including Earthborn and Sole Survivor backstory options. In both cases, paragon dialogue choices are chosen and "investigate" options are avoided to give a more "movie" feel to the opening.

Video recorded @ 1440p (2K @ 2560 x 1440) with graphics options set to maximum in both games. No 3rd party texture packs are used, what you see is stock settings and graphics for both games for a vanilla comparison between the two releases. All audio is from the Legendary Edition. The pacing for the audio is basically identical from the original, so only visuals have been updated, not the script.

Original Mass Effect footage is on the left pane, Legendary remaster on the right. The split will slide during certain scenes to reveal larger portions of the remastered or original video for faces and other details when deemed necessary.

Overall the detail and texture upgrades on the Legendary Edition remaster definitely make the game look better. However, they did go through and make the entire game "brighter" in most cases for the Legendary edition, smoothing shadows so they fall across character models more evenly and naturally. This creates certain looks that, at first glance when compared to the original, don't look quote as good. The original Mass Effect was more dark, and I think they did that purposefully back then to try and mask some of the lower resolution textures and other limitations they would have had when developing the original Mass Effect.

There are also some very small changes they've made even in just this opening sequence. There are several cases of characters having extra movement, or less movement, orientation changes, more natural head and eye movement, new colors for lighting/accents, etc. that really spruce things up. All in all I think the changes are a positive, although I think they could have left some more hard shadows/dark feel in some scenes while on the Normandy.

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