@OkeyDokey

You're mind is really hazy because she wasn't being arrested. She had footage that Saren didn't want getting out, so she went to the Shadow Broker for protection and was almost caught by a traitor before you save her.

My god....how can one person be so stupid and ignorant, i mean WOW! you sir are a fool, how does a peasant 10-15 minute rolling comic book on ps3 cancel out the 360/pc mass effect 'canon', in your words. both are 20 plus hour games with something like 600 of your choices carrying over to mass effect 2 if you opt too.MASS EFFECT HAS NO CANON, WE CREATE IT. Only when mass effect 3 comes out might you realise what i mean and repent your slimy ways, but until then fool, keep on living in your ignorant bliss. Im putting money down that your going to buy the original after your done with 3 and then on whatever format you play on, your going to buy 2 and 3 again and with a smile, so in the end im laughing at you as is everybody who ever played mass effect.

Bioware said the PS3 version would be the definitive version. Obviously it's the 360/PC versions that are non-cannon.

Anyhoo, this is my theory: MS is the publisher of ME1, therefore MS has some rights to the ME1 story as well as the game. In negotiating ME2 port to PS3 EA had to agree to change or omit parts of ME1 from the interactive comic so that there were material differences from the ME1 story. Or EA's lawyers told EA that if they had exactly the same story for the interactive comic then MS might try to sue, hence they figured out how much they needed to change to make it hard for MS to throw a wobbly and sue. End result: fanboys crying about changes, EA minimises the chance of litigation.

For me it matters not, as I've not experienced ME1 so the interactive comic that comes with ME2 will be the story I know.

From Mass Effect wiki:

"She recovered a file from its audio banks that revealed Saren Arterius was behind the attack on Eden Prime, but possessing the file put her in grave danger. She was pursued by Saren's forces, and escaped to the Citadel"

Sounds like a fugitive to me...

You might want to look up the definition of fugitive. She committed no crime, she didn't escape incarneration, etc. etc. This comic fail. Let's break down a few reasons why.

Shepard: "Lt. Alenko was good kid." FAIL Shepard is 29 in ME1 and Alenko is 32. Jenkins was good kid but he died along with Nihlus on Eden Prime neither of which is mentioned in the comic.

The Geth aren't mentioned by name at all. FAIL. The Geth are a major enemy through ME1. They aren't just "Saren's Army". In fact, they Sovereign's army.

Feros isn't mentioned at all. FAIL The Thorian having the ancestral knowledge of the Protheans is major point of story. So is Shiala passing you that knowledge via the Cypher. Without it Shepard would not be able to make sense of the visions from the Prothean beacons. Liara wouldn't be able to make sense of them either becuase the visions would be jumbled mess.

The Rachni: The comic implies that the Rachni Queen was responsbile for her brethren attacking you on Noveria. The other rachni are insane becuase they were taking away from their mother and didn't develop properly.

Cerberus. FAIL isn't mentioned at all. You run into experiments gone wrong from Cerberus throughout ME1. How is the player supposed to have trepidation about working Cereberus if they don't about them.

I expected smaller quest like Emily Wong's two quest, Conrad Verner, etc. to be left out but not major plot points of game. I expected that PS3 owners would get a Cliff Notes of ME1. If some handed a test on the major of events of ME1 and all you had was comic you fail miserably. I mean they couldn't even get the basic facts right.

To be honest, I would skip it if I could. I don't really care for the story of the mass effect trilogy. I just wanna play the damn game. If I wanted to know what happened on mass effect 1, i'd go read it in wikipedia and spare me the trouble.

I just looked at the clips in the OP and, not having played Mass Effect 1, I don't feel the omission. Yet I don't like the voice acting at all. Too freeking "american soldier" type. Could I say, generic? I would contrast this to the voice of the guy in the trailers for Deus Ex 3: it has feeling, it has a likable character. The story: no surprise anywhere, or none that got through to me. No unexpected, no surprise in the whole narative. At the end, the guy sais that the human flees joined by others defeated the baddie. Then he sais that as a thanxs, the humans are alowed to have a member on the council thing. Is that cocky or what? Are the humand the strongest race but not on the council cause they are young? If they are not the strongest, not the wisest, not the oldest, woudn't at least mentioning the other races be a requirement for politeness? And now come that such an important role as the first human representative on the coucil gets to be elected by a 29 years old guy? - can I say that some parts of the story lacks common sense and that I don't like that?