Great role-playing game, but not a very good third person shooter.

User Rating: 8.5 | Mass Effect X360
By PhoenixInferno | Review Date:
I would give Mass Effect a 9.5 (or better...) except that there's a lot of Gears-of-War-"me-too!" going on. The squad based combat, carrying 4 weapons (GoW had 3+grenades, ME has 4+grenades), the cover system - all ripped out of Gears of War. Gears was great, but it was designed as a third-person shooter from the beginning and had excellent controls. Mass Effect is a role-playing game - the game's focus should be on playing the role of the main character Cmdr Shepard and his quest to save the galaxy, not on getting the targeting reticule over the enemy and pulling the right trigger repeatedly.

Once you get past the combat system, the game is great. There are incentives for immersing yourself in the game's lore, all-around good voice acting and FULL SPEECH! The dialog system is effective - you only read a short summary, decide among the choices and your character engages in an almost fully realized conversation! Almost like an interactive movie.

Another gripe about the game is that the main quest feels too short. The side quests are fun to get you traveling to other planets/systems/clusters, but I think there's more sidequest than main-quest to the game.

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