It's a pretty mixed affair. The second half of the main quest is really enjoyable as the story doesn't pick up pace until then. The rest of the game (exploring the non main quest planets) is fairly terrible. All they consist of is traversing a barren wasteland in the Mako (which is incredibly annoying) to find one of: anomaly, debris, mineral and a building. There's only 3 different buildings, all of which have the exact same interior.
There's other issues such as: poor AI, level scaling, frequent loading, texture pop-ins galore, 30 - 45 second elevators, horrible inventory screen, what Shepard says sometimes doesn't correspond to what you pick. With that said, the story is pretty solid, the dialogue is well written even though it takes itself too seriously and there's a large amount of lore to the universe. When you do get around to playing it, pick a female character. Her voice sounds better than Jack Bauer Shepard's.
I'd go into why it's a fairly weak RPG, but I'd end up spoiling the story and some quests for you.
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