Great fun filled game.
In Mass Effect you play as Commander Shepard. You pretty much customize what type of soldier your going to be. You also get to choose your backgroud and what your past is. After you play through the first mission you realize there is a evil alien named Saren planning to take over the galaxy. Shepard is a commander in the human military. An odd thing about this game is that the Humans aren't among the strongest races. There are other alien races that run the galaxy. Very early into the game you become a Spectre. A Spectre can pretty much do anything that they want and don't have to answer to anyone but the council. This of course allows you to chase around Saren without much trouble. While talking to other people and creatures in the game you can choose what you want to say. This is really cool and sometimes you can choose whether to take someone out or keep them alive which is really cool. Sometimes what you say may not do anything at all or two options of what to say will have the same outcome.
Mass Effect has a very fun combat system. When in battle you pretty much fight and when you want to activate an ability or switch your weapon you pretty much just bring up a menu which will kind of pause the game and allow you to activate your powers or switch your weapons. Very soon into the game you are put into this vehicle that you will being using quite often throughout the game. Its a pretty fun piece of metal to drive around. It even allows you to jump up a few feet which is pretty cool. After the first few times you use it the vehicle can just get boring because the shooting with it is pretty pathetic. You will shoot and the vehicle will miss alot of the time even if you aimer is still on the enemy. The weapons in the game are pretty basic you get a Pistol, Machine Gun, Shotgun, and Sniper. The lack of weapons is really made up for because the combat with them is so fun and the special powers you get are very intresting. Theres also a pretty pathetic covering system. You dont press a button to enter it when you have a weapon out you simply run towards a wall and your character will just lean against it. It can get annoying because if someone rushes you getting off the wall can be annoying.
The visuals in this game are quite nice. The weapons and enviroment look amazing. The voice acting in this game is just great. The characters lips move almost perfectly to what there saying which really makes you feel like your in the game. The music in the game is nice although nothing to special. You wont really notice it while playing the game because the game is just so much fun.
All in all I give Mass Effect a 8.5
-Hulk