User blog comment:SilencedSkies/Body Armor: A Comparison./@comment-5193859-20130213021527

I'm very familiar with Mass Effect and it's armors, and I have, at best, a passing familiarity with Warhammer 40k.

While I don't usually contribute to discussions like these, I did want to make the point that Bioware seemed to take a lot of care in designing their ME armors to be practical. I think the N7 armor deserves more than 5/10 zippers in the practicality score.

The N7 armor is put together in such a way that it's the only one I could see actually being manufactured and worn by a real person, not only 200 years from now, but today.

Also, as another poster pointed out, in Kasumi: Stealing Memory, Shepard changes into his armor, and while it's glossed over in the cutscene, the armor is made in a practical and modular fashion that it seems like it could be put on and taken off, and even have sections swapped out fairly quickly.

The rest of the categories I can't really comment much on.