Real-Life Mass Effect Mako Remote-Controls Your Heart

[RJ 17]

One of my favorite conversations between squadmates in ME3 was the one where Vega and Cortez are arguing over what was better: the Mako or the Hammerhead. Personally I had to side with Cortez on this one...the Mako handled like a brick.

Still, it was fun back in college to make a drinking game out of Mako-based planet exploration. It was quite simple, really, every time you found anything - resources, one of the "collectables" (asari writings, turian insignias, etc), or anything else you could stumble upon - you take a drink. My biggest complaint was why every single dropzone on every single planet had you being dropped right in the middle of the most jagged, rugged mountain range on that planet. But hey, as Vega always said, that thing can "climb and climb for DAYS!" In later playthroughs I realized that you didn't have to inch your way up mountainsides, searching for that one spot where you could get some more traction that would take you to the top, but rather in most cases there was actually a relatively easy path that could be taken to where you were wanting to go.

But I digress, between the Lego Normandy and now this, I'd happily say "GIMME GIMME GIMEE!!!!"

 

[The]

Does it come with environment clipping?

 

[Formica Archonis]

If she can make a mini-Normandy, I think she's undeniably won the Internets.

I know someone who put up a Normandy-themed shelving unit [https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/21656_482107665154862_820861201_n.jpg] at her new place. Does that count?

 

[BlackStar42]

If she can make a mini-Normandy, I think she's undeniably won the Internets.

I know someone who put up a Normandy-themed shelving unit [https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/21656_482107665154862_820861201_n.jpg] at her new place. Does that count?

Ooooh...do want. D'you know where she got it?

 

[Formica Archonis]

Ooooh...do want. D'you know where she got it?

Built it, I think. Lemme see.... Here we go: [http://project-giana.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=213&start=100#p3287]

Yeah... I designed it with sketchup... then i had a lot of help from my best friends dad to make the form of it.. and the coloring i made by myself again..

 

[LetalisK]

Now get absolutely wasted and it'll be like driving the one in the game!

 

[Talvrae]

The M-35 Mako. Love it or hate it, its iconic design embodies the Mass Effect aesthetic. It only appeared in the first game, but that was enough to capture the imagination of self-proclaimed

There is Makos in Mass Effect 3... At the Final battle for earrth we can see plenty of them

 

[james.sponge]

I remember the Mako. I spent countless hours trying to drive up the side of a mountain, just because I was too lazy to go around. I imagine it would take considerably longer to do the same thing with this replica. Still looks pretty cool, though.

Same here, I imagine that in the end we lost twice as much time riding through the mountains rather than intended paths.

 

[The Funslinger]

The M-35 Mako. Love it or hate it, its iconic design embodies the Mass Effect aesthetic. It only appeared in the first game, but that was enough to capture the imagination of self-proclaimed

There is Makos in Mass Effect 3... At the Final battle for earrth we can see plenty of them

And in that vein, the wreck of the Normandy's Mako can be seen when you visit the crash site.

 

[Bluestorm83]

It's weird, because there's this universal hatred for the Mako... that I can't really find any evidence for. I loved the stupid thing. Sure, it's controls were floaty, but we were in low-G conditions most of the time. Sure, it didn't control like a REAL tank, but it's a vehicle in a 3rd person shooter Space Sci-Fi RPG, give it some slack. Sure, it could get wedged into crevasses in the planet's terrain if you tried to go to the "Wrong" place, but honestly that's more a condemnation of the planets they gave us than about the Mako.

I always affectionately called it the "Bumble Rover," because it roved alien planets and moons and bumbled about with every turn, rock, enemy, what have you. Removing it from ME2 and replacing it with that GODAWFUL hovercraft that could be taken down by a single Geth Dootler (the regular crappy ones, not the Armitures or Colossi) was a boneheaded manouevere if ever there was one. I know I spelled that wrong, but since I was bound to get it wrong, I decided to go big. Ah well. At least the Mako wasn't forced to be teleported into a Human Blender Hallway, then converse with Shithead the Fucktard Ghost and then condemn the universe to one of four almost equally bad fates.

Now that I think of it, can we get a Mass Effect 3 Ending remake where at the last second, before Shepard picks one of the endings, the Mako crashes through a wall, runs over the Starboy somehow, and Shepard hops in and they just fly out and kill all the reapers in space? Maybe work in some Reaper Dialogue how they can't hit the Mako because it's too damn bouncy? I can dream...

 

[C F]

After finally playing Mass Effect, I am going to chalk up most of the complaints to bad driving

Hear hear! This weirdguy speaks truth!

Seriously though, the Mako's controls were designed to mimic Halo's vehicle controls. If you played Halo beforehand, you could make this thing do everything you wanted it to.

The warthog didn't have jumpjets, and generally speaking there weren't a lot of options for the player to drive up ridiculous cliff faces or hills, so the unrefined physics of the day weren't that noticeable.

Yes, but the steering/acceleration and camera/aiming controls DO strike a strong resemblance to those of the Scorpion Tank. It just happens to be more nimble.

OT: Any plans to up the traction to ridiculous levels? Can't call it the Mako otherwise.

 

[soren7550]

It only appeared in the first game,

False! You see the Mako again in the Mass Effect 2 Normandy Crash Site DLC, and you can see several Makos in Mass Effect 3 when you return to Earth.

Anyway, saw her upload this to her deviantArt account a bit back (around March I think). She even got pictures of it with a bunch of people related to the Mass Effect series.