Relationships

In both Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, you form relationships with different characters. Some look at you as a leader ... some a lover ... and some just look at you as a mutual ally. None the less you build relationships. Both games operate in relatively the same way - as gametime progresses you may continue to speak to the other characters and eventually new dialogues and other options open up. The romance in the first game does not always carry over to the first game though. You either sacrifice your lover in the first one, have her become obsessed with killing another character in the second or the last option may carry over, I actually have not had a game continue with the first one with that particular option and I doubt I ever will since the first game is way to long. Though in the second, it is possible to form new sexual or "love based" relations with characters and it is again possible to have them die during the final mission.