Ok. [spoiler] Character creation - is boring and limited. Seriously, there are free to play games with more options and creativity. Small squad - I was a little disappointed with the small squad you end up with. I expected to have a human, asari, krogan, and a turian team mate. I wish out of the whole galaxy there was more then just one new race to recruit. Squad mates are useless and boring - ok I realize that some of this is preference but none the less. your team is extremely boring most of the time. There dialogue with Ryder and each other is usually basic and uneventful. The best conversations they have is when your just driving around. Let that sink in, the best they have is small conversations used to fill in dead time. Liam - boring Cora - stereotypical soldier - boring Peebee - at least has unique personality, No major complaints. Vetra - best character in the game. Drack - I liked him, but he is what you expect. A battle hardened soldier. No real surprises with his character. Jaal - is interesting, I enjoyed his dry sense of humor, but it really only came out in regards to Liam. Major complaint - your team is all but useless. You can not command the use of there biotics so your left with hoping that they set you up for a combo. You can not equip any of there equipment so I ended up not caring at all what they were doing or what they were using. My experience went like this. I played the game on normal difficulty ( which felt like super easy). Enemies are stupid in regards to cover and suppressive fire. So I ended up maining a shot gun and rushing every enemy. The result was that I could kill a enemy way before my team could prime them for a combo or help shoot them. My complaint goes deeper then that however. Because the main character can equip any 3 biotics, I quickly found that I could use the same biotics as my team and I could use them better. Effectively rendering my team completely useless. I'm 100% sure I could have easily saved the whole galaxy leaving my team on the ship. Bugs and glitches - I have experienced a ton of glitches and bugs in this game. It starts at inconvenient, moves to annoying, then punches into stupid funny. I ended up just shaking my head and excepting that I was playing a buggy game. Animation - this game will go down in my book as one of the worst triple A game I've played in regards to animation. I realize the patch helped but I played a fair portion of it before the patch was released. Also It doesn't matter if they patched it, the game was finished and shipped in a conditioned that was approved by multiple people. Perhaps next time they should think twice before shipping a unfinished product. Story - I don't believe I'm being unfair when I say the story was boring. Even the whole concept of exaltation was not completely unexpected. The main boss was boring and did not even bother to troll the main character. You basically get introduced to the main boss, you bump into him once, exchange pleasantries, you never see him again until the end of the game, the end. You don't hate the boss, the don't feel anything because he gets almost zero screen time. Nothing you do matters - something I enjoyed in the other mass effects is that decisions you had to make had major consequences shortly after and/or later. If any of the decisions you make in this game matter, you will have to wait until the next game to find out. Nothing you do significantly impacts this game at all. To prove my point, try and mess up your play through. Not in regards to a achievement but do a lousy job as pathfinder. What you will experience is almost exactly what everyone else will experience. Now certain decisions do impact the end game mission but not in regards to outcome, which would be the main concern. It changes how many or what type of enemies you fight. Ultimately whatever you choose to do or say results in a slightly different dialogue, which delivers you to the same end regardless. The core of this game is also to blame for this. The main character has the ability to equip any 3 skills and change them mid battle. The profile can also be changed at anytime. One of the major decisions in the previous mass effects was choosing your class. Knowing full well whatever you choose will not work for every situation you really needed to choose wisely. This also meant your team mates were critical to your success. If you chose a biotic it was nice to have a krogan tank with you. The point is there were consequences for the path you chose...... This mass effect has zero consequences for anything you do. Replay value - does not exist. Because nothing you do changes this game, replaying it is taxing. The biggest reason to replay is achievements and a different romance. I'm currently playing on insane difficulty, which is not difficult. I will get my completed game score and shelf this game. I wouldn't recommend paying full price for this game. And definitely dont hope that this game is better then the previous ones, because it just is not. Likes ??? Art - the worlds and environments are very good. Nothing I say will give it enough credit. I was impressed and wowed by the universe I got to explore. Exploring - as I said before the universe is very big, there is more then enough to do and explore. Gun play - fights are smooth and fluid. This is a big upgrade from previous games. The other mass effects were slow and clunky. [/spoiler]