All players: Give your own score!

Allright, now that I've finished the game, I'm pretty sure all negative comments are unduly harsh. Mind, that I feel for the people on the platforms where there are a lot of bugs, but on XBOX, I encountered almost zero annoying bugs. So I can't really deduct points for that.

Story: Take it for what it is: a new beginning. I really enjoyed it. I did find that yes, it starts very slowly, but as the game progresses, the characters really develop and all grow very tight. The tempest becomes more lively, attachments between characters rise, characters develop or see things a different way, ... It's a stroy of evolution and development. And for me it really showed that. I remember feeling cold in the tempest at the start of the game, but near the final mission, it felt very warm and sheltered. Like a home. Voice acting is almost always spot on, even if there's just a smidgen too much swearing from time to time. In particular I want to adress how well the pathfinder develops over the game, I find you can really see him grow from secondary character to his father to all-round bad-ass. I actually prefer him to shepard now, as Ryder makes shepard look kind of... one-dimensional. Shepard doesn't grow, he already IS a bad-ass world-saving hero. I didn't know I lacked main hero development until I saw Ryder grow.
World: The world design is fantastic. Everything looks really good. I always felt engrossed and convinced of where I was. Love the galaxy map. Yes, at the start of the game human models look slightly off, but after so many hours you don't notice that anymore, and the new patch fixes it a little. Again, yes there are bugs but I haven't seen any weird or immersion breaking ones. The music is also usually very mass effect and appropriate to the mood of the first game. Most main quests as well as main sidequests are very well developed story-wise. Yeah, there are some fetch quests, but there is not one single RPG (yes fanboys, even W3...) which doesn't have them, so why unduly punish bioware for what every other RPG does as well? And all in all, except for the 'task' quests, they're all written with the same class as the main (secondary) quests.
Gameplay: Fantastic, not much else. I would have done some things fdifferent, such as allowing for a more rapid cooldown between profiles and putting special ammo types in as augmentations, or maybe even allowing you to set up team tactics. But The gameplay in and of itself is spot-on. I would like to note that the best parts of the gameplay are the on-rail sections (like loyalty missions or main missions). Open world shooting isn't easy to do, but bioware has made it work, is the least that can be said.


All in all: I'm anxious for a second playthrough, and even the story DLC installments! Although I would prefer Bioware to finish QA for every platform before release next time...

A very well deserved 90%.