Mass Effect 4: 10 Playable Races That Would Change Everything

5. Batarians

Sometimes it's just fun to play as the bad guys, and although the Batarians aren't anywhere near as well known as the rest of this list thanks to just being DLC in the first game, their existence as embittered, human-hating space pirates with a penchant for slaughtering innocents could turn the core 'Mass Effect experience' on its head. Plenty of players took their Shepard down the Renegade path more often than Paragon - mainly because you got to do everything from chuck people from skyscraper windows and punch reporters in the mush - but you can't deny revelling in the darker, more deliciously evil tone the game's occasionally take would be fantastically enjoyable.