Best atmosphere in a video game.Strong dialogue and background story.A great effort.
The graphics are gorgeous and gave the game a very unique atmospere, a space opera feeling.The planets,the spaceships and best of all the species, all look extremely detailed.Too bad the engine doesn't keep up an there is slowdown.Luckily, this is most of the time a static game(as most rpgs are) so the slowdown doesn't affect the experience too much.
The sound is very good but there could be used bigger variety of tracks.Overall the music follows nicely your exploration.
The gameplay is at least interesting.It's nice to see something new and fresh and here the gameplay provides both rpg and shooter elements.As a whole this is an game with unique but generic customization and little challenge.
Its funny that when i first played the game i thought 'this must be a wonderful game but a little dull'.To be honest i still believe that this game as most wrpgs lack the fan factor that japanese games often have.This and the fact that you need some time to get into the complex universe (to learn the species, the politics, humans role in the galaxy etc.)made me stop playing the game for some time.When i came back in the game after two months i was completely hooked.The story,the feeling of the galaxy,the fresh gameplay,all i found excellent.
This is a mature game aiming at older audiences,with a very serious and well-written script.It looks chaotic(as it should) but in fact it isn't.Your story is not that big but you have the constant feeling that there are so many things to discover.Of course there are always sub-plots that can make this game far bigger than the main storyline does.The sub-plots in this game are a success.They are small,variant and well rewarded.If you ask me they are a reason i consider this game better to oblivion.
All in all this is one of the best games,with one of the best worlds in a videogame,a cinematic as long as a static rpg experience that (lets see) will gain more and more possitive reviews as time passes(ign placed it 1 in its xbox360's best 25).