this is a solo play game, FFXI is an MMO(not a very good one either) but anyway, no pay to play for a solo game.

Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything, but I still haven't seen a release date on any of the big reputable Sites, Nor can I see it on the official Bioware site. The Mass Effect site does, however have a fairly nifty Q&A with the developers up
SO I wouldn't be relying 100% on the June 5th release date just yet.

Yeah I'd be inclined to think that too, until it's announced by Bioware we can't really be sure.

Yup, and there's no sign of it on the site that I noticed. I would have expected half a dozen excited emails from IGN and such as well.

Vanguard for me please

quote Curt Connors

Yup, and there's no sign of it on the site that I noticed. I would have expected half a dozen excited emails from IGN and such as well.

Yeah true usually when an official release date is announced sites like IGN are all over it.

Gamepro got an interview, little was said besides the release date in June...

Bioware is keeping their mouths shut on this one.

Link please? Since the main Gamepro Mass Effect page only shows a spring 2007 release date.

Game Blog Update, guys, for all interested! Links. Definitely worth a look-see, mind I haven't been around much lately in this forum, eh?

Classes within an RPG fundamentally determine how you will play the game. We built each gameplay mechanic first, and then built character classes that used them. As a result, classes feel more naturally integrated into the overall game but have different gameplay. The strengths and weaknesses of enemies are based around these mechanics instead of around things like damage types. In "Mass Effect," an enemy will be vulnerable to biotics, not fire or cold. The effect is that playing through the game with different classes causes the combats to become more or less challenging, depending on the combination of character classes in the squad. It means that your squad members are important parts of your strategy for overcoming difficult scenarios that play to the weaknesses of your current character.

Recently, a combat situation we encountered in our daily gameplay review highlighted the importance of balancing the squad with different classes. A squad was put together to fight a Krogan Warlord, one of the toughest combat opponents in the game. He is heavily armored and shielded, and he takes a lot of punishment before he dies. He is the Soldier's worst nightmare. The squad had a heavy emphasis on weapons instead of biotics or tech. When combat began, the Krogan Warlord blasted apart the squad in no time. I knew that the Krogan Warlord would have been much easier to overcome with an Engineer or Adept in the squad.

While I happen to be around, they also have had four new screenshots released over at Worthplaying, for anyone interested. You can check out all four here.

Sounds interesting, it's good that balanced squads are needed, one of the problems in previous bioware titles was that you could just blast yuor way through the game with the heavily combat and melee orientated class. Like the Jedi guardian in KoToR.

Part two of the classes of Mass Effect

Like the sound of the Vanguard, up close and personal biotic violence

Great article there nice to get more clsss info, Vanguard sounds really cool to me aswell.

Infiltrator!!
I luv sniping, and stealthyness

this is perfection in a Mass Effect class.