Commander Shepard

Commander Shepard is the player character in BioWare's Mass Effect game trilogy: Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3.

A veteran soldier of the Systems Alliance Navy military and N7-graduate of the Interplanetary Combatives Training (ICT) program, and the first human Citadel Counsel Spectre, Shepard works to stop "the Reapers", a sentient synthetic-machine race dedicated to wiping out all organic life.

Shepard's gender, class, first name and general appearance are chosen and customised by the player.

Mark Meer provides the voice for male Shepards, while Jennifer Hale voices females.

Alan Shepard was the source of the character's name.

Shepard's armour developed over the series, and was originally intended to be red-and-white.

Though both genders were given equal importance during development, marketing felt there was a need for a single identifiable hero for promotion of the game.

Various merchandise has been made, including several figurines.

Shepard has appeared in cameo appearances in other Electronic Arts games, though they will not be appearing in any future Mass Effect ones.

The character has received generally positive reception; the commander has been included on several "top character" lists, and Joe Juba of Game Informer titled them their favourite RPG protagonist of 2012.

However, Maxim has criticized their armor and IGN's Andrew Goldfarb felt the character should not have been revisited through Mass Effect 3 downloadable content.

Heavy focus was given to the female Shepard, nicknamed "FemShep", by the fans and critical sources.

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