Having just completed the game, I thought I'd add my thoughts. Rather than rehashing what everyone else has said I'll just add some more negatives and the odd positive. Namely, this game looks a lot bigger than it actually is. The environments are small, cramped and 'closed' - no free roaming, no real exploring. The number of accessible worlds is also small and each has a bland enclosed mountain space to rove about in in the MAKO buggy thing. Not to mention the fact that each of the space stations, research labs etc. in the side quests is IDENTICAL, no variation whatsoever. Talk about lazy programming. I liked the characters and the plot was pretty good. Admittedly they steal every sci-fi cliche going from Trekkie borg to Battlestar gallactica cylons but that's forgiveable. I did enjoy the combat, especially throwing bad guys around with your 'biotic powers' but where it lacks compared to KOTOR (which is identical in many respects) is that you only control one character, the others are CPU controlled, which irritated me. Overall its ok, but generally screams 'rushed out for christmas'. Hopefully ME2 will open the game up a bit!