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It’s difficult not to use superlatives and become all effusive when writing about a game like Mass Effect, but in this case it’s well deserved.

I’m not saying that the game is perfect: it’s not, and there are still a few little spanners in the works. The graphical glitches and awkward load points aren’t major points, and it’s a testament to the quality of the game that I’m essentially forced to nitpick to find something wrong with the game.

Mass Effect is huge too, both in terms of the area the game covers and the amount of playing time. There are enough side quests and achievements to keep even the most obsessive gamer happy for a year and BioWare has said that once the main game is finished, it’s still possible to travel around the galaxy and visit other planets, completing side quests that you may have missed.

Add on top of that the chance to replay the game with different dialogue decisions and the additional episodic gaming that BioWare has promised, and Mass Effect goes from being a huge game to being a mind-cripplingly massive game. It’s the type of game which gives ‘100 percent Complete Perfectionists’ nightmares.

If BioWare manages to carry on the quality of the storytelling for another two games, plus the interim episodes, it will have done something the likes of which hasn’t been seen in computer gaming before. If you are at all interested in video game storytelling or simply want to play a Shooter/RPG which offers colossal replayability without becoming a grind-fest then buy Mass Effect. You won’t regret it.

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/12/01/mass_effect/1

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