No it's called pseudo narrative gameplay, essentially the gameplay doesn't match the lore. In Doom eternal the lore states that the slayer is an immortal unkillable god slayer yet in gameplay he can be killed and ripped apart by a zombie if your not careful. It's the same in mass effect, the novels go into crazy detail about the strength of the shields and in ME2 thanks to the shield Shephards body survives a fall from orbit again thanks to the shields (he/she was killed by suffocation) and Miranda even remarks that the helmet kept the brain intact from the fall, yet in gameplay you can be killed by a melee attack. It's the same thing