A Story Line Your Gonna Love
User Rating: 9.5 | Mass Effect X360
If this game turns out to be your kind of thing, you won't be sleeping for a while now. The game puts you in the place of Shepard, your everyday hero kind of guy, and begins your adventure trying to find out what happened to a research team. After you find an ancient teleporter thing, you see visions of an ancient race being killed off. As if things couldn't be crazier, one of your friends turns on you and turns out to be trying to destroy the universe. It sounds kinda so-so, but thats a very short preview of the story. I just don't want to spoil anything. Alot of gamers seem to say and think that this game feels alot like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which I do not believe at all. Its actually a very fast paced game, featuring action somewhat like Gears of War. Just more RPG focused than action. Firefights require you to shoot from cover with a multitude of weapons at your disposal. Your weaponry consists of a sniper rifle, pistol, assault rifle, and a shotgun. As well as grenades. Each weapon supports a multitude of upgrades you find throughout the game. Furthermore, you can use any of your weapons at any time, which brings up many strategic possibilities. Depending on the type of character you choose, you also have different powers at your disposal that range from creating a warp that damages enemies all around, to allowing your shotgun to release a huge burst of fire. These have a dramatic effect on how each fight goes. Each of your teammates also have their own weapons and abilities that you have control over at any time. (Although, you cannot take direct control of them.) The story is probably the games most wonderful feature though. This game hardly has what you could call cut-scenes. Each cut-scene lets you control what you character says to each question and mostly effects how the conversation goes. Just talking in this game is fun and effects how your character turns out. (A good to bad sort of thing.) The last thing to really go over in this game is the choices you have. Once you recieve your ship, "The Normandy", the entire galaxy becomes your playground. Although you need to follow the storyline to complete the game, you can go to any of the tons of planets at your disposal. It really is amazing what options you have with this game and is one of, if not THE, best game I've ever played. 
