one of the best 360 exclusives. you dont even have to be an RPG fan to enjoy it.
You Start the game and you can create your character as commander Sheppard who is fully customizable down to scars and facial definition. Once you complete your looks you are going to be able to pick your childhood backround and personality type. Picking your personality can be extremely fun to do especially if you choose to be a renegade your first time around, you will end up doing things your way and answering to noone which will result in a change in the outcome of the story. If you choose to be a nice guy the outcome will be different also and you will have a different effect on the other characters.
While Playing Mass Effect at first to me it just seemed like another shooter so i would carelessly go into the battles and try to gun everyone down halo style but as i glanced at my health i noticed it wasnt the smartest thing to play the game that way and so i used the RPG-like attack system where you press RB to select attacks, shields, and other crew member attacks which turns out to be very effective especially overkill in the beginning of the game.
The Story mode is fantastic, it is long (about 25 hours) but is well worth every hour and it will have you attached to certain elements of the story and have you excited to get to the next galaxy or next cutscene.
The controls are great and its hard to point out anything bad with the controls except the whole running thing, you can only get a short sprint while in battle but you will run like the wind lol. The Graphics are phenominal as well and may be arguably the best looking 360 game.
Overall i recommend this game to anyone with an Xbox 360 and loves an awesome story. you dont even have to be a big RPG fan to enjoy this game, its got the best of many worlds shooter/adventure/RPG. its only $20 new so i definatley say that 360 owners pick this up!