User blog comment:Commdor/Vote for ME3's Female Shepard/@comment-4048340-20110724213749/@comment-1221773-20110724222323

Apparently BioWare thought that the old default wasn't good enough, and I would agree. Male Shepard's default face is unique and (to my knowledge) impossible to reproduce with ME's and ME2's character creator tools. Female Shepard's default was made within the character creator, laziness on BioWare's part. BioWare underestimated how popular female Shepard would be.