That sounds great, a good character customisation system is always a plus and having a more open style of gameplay should make the experience even more enjoyable and add to the replayability.

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Oh man, I'm going to have to play an adept character.
This isn't just going to raise the bar, it's going to pick it up and beat all the other RPG's to death with it.

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Things begin with a deep character creation system, where you design Shepard's look, assign one of six character classes, and even pick specific facial expressions. You also get to decide on one of several backgrounds for the Commander, each of which alters certain plot elements and affects reactions from NPCs.

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It's hard to say for certain how truly open the galaxy will be, but BioWare asserts that players have far more freedom than in KOTOR or Jade Empire. You could play quickly through Mass Effect without doing much exploration and complete it in 30-40 hours. But if you look at every nook and cranny of the galaxy, the experience should last considerably longer.



How much replayability/value for money exactly? Result!

Which according to my maths, if you count $1=1 hour that's a 1000% percent return on your investment.
Though my maths always did suck

500/60= 800% return I think I'm not good at percentages, but game design will be my career choice(after graduating from Devry and getting some basic stuff from a real college), so I may wanna get better at math.

thats what i think im going to do. like maybe even start my own small developing company

need money tho... lots of it, Devry is pretty costly.

some RCC for general ed may help too.

went to some local game stores, all say that Mass Effect is due in May

yeah, that's what we're hearing at the moment. As far as I know, there's been no official announcement so, while I hope to see it in stores in May, I won't hold my breath til I hear something official.

Three of the Classes of Mass Effect
Loving the sound of the Adept class more and more

"Jedi on Crack"... lol

does sound like a cool class, I think I'll mesh somewhere between soldier and adept...

The other three classes are indeed hybrids. I don't know the names but one is a soldier/adept cross, one is a tech/adept cross and the last is a tech/soldier cross. I'm adept all the way though! It's probably harder at first but those biotic powers look cool.

I think the solider adept cross would suit me nicely, the adept powers look cool but don't think I'd want to be full adept.

Full Adept definitely, if they didn't have the pause function to let you be strategic I'd agree with you. As it is though, I want to be able to drop big fecking crates on people..eventually.

i think i would be full adept wen i first play then maybe go for tech thing after beating the game. cause soilder is just so damn boring thing to play since every game out there u pretty much play a soilder. adept looks cool anyways

Hmmm I'm slightly worried about this though because if it's going to be that big will it have an extra payment option, like FFXI did ?