User blog comment:Spartan0700/Mass Effect 3: Off the Record/@comment-4936012-20120727192852

BioWare did this is Dragon Age: Awakening, an expansion pack for DA: Origins, one of there other origins. If your main character died in DA:O you could still port your save and decisions, and just made a new character who had arrived from another country after the fun had ended. Honestly I liked Awakening better then Origins, so I would definitely pick this up for Mass Effect, though I'd prefer either Garrus or Tali as the main character, or an entirely new one.