Mass Effect Virmire Mission: what to know before starting
If you want more help like this, we’ve got a full Choices and Consequences guide for Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3, covering every major decision with a repercussion across all three games. On this page, we’ll run down the Virmire mission in brief, explaining the various choices you’ll be making and what they’ll mean for you in the long run.
Virmire is one of the last planets you’ll unlock as part of the core story progression of Mass Effect - and it’s where much of Saren’s plan becomes clear, where Shepard has a verbal showdown with the real villain of the piece, and where things seriously change forever for several members of Shepard’s squad. The first Mass Effect is utterly jam-packed with story choices with a great variety of resultant outcomes - but nowhere else in the game is as filled with important decisions as Virmire.
