User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-4948356-20120510160946/@comment-4948356-20120511175318

Thinking about it, it looks like ME took a lot from the Halo universe, Turians= elites, Krogan= Brute, The Atlas's in ME3 are slightly similar to hunters, Volus= Grunts, Vorcha= Jackals/ Skirmishers, everything else you mentioned, They even have the marine helmet from the first halo as a helmet for shepard in ME3, Some of the Weapons too Ex: vindicator rifle= the battle rifle, and like the covenant all space faring races in ME based their tech on said ancient civilization. Their are probably others, but can't think of them all. Actually, the Jackals were considered birds in Halo, so maybe ME merged elites and Jackals to form turians. Still, their are a lot of similarities between the games.