Mass Effect 3 is to Mass Effect as...

(a) The Prequels are to Star Wars
(b) Paris Hilton is to Conrad Hilton
(c) My Immortal is to Harry Potter
(d) All of the above

Gosh, I hate multiple choice.

On the other hand, the Retake Mass Effect movement did something pretty sweet -- in lieu of an online petition for Bioware to provide extra, more competently written endings, they've started up a donation pool to Child's Play, an organization that provides games and hardware to hospitalized children.  The monetary "votes" both send a message to EA Bioware and go to a good cause.  I feel like that's pretty creative of them.  Kudos to the people on the Bioware Forums that came up with the idea.

In my opinion, this almost makes that game's existence worthwhile.  Almost.

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More on Retake Mass Effect: [link](I'd link the Facebook page, but I don't exist on Facebook so I can't get to it.)

Child's Play main site: [link]