Great if you enjoy ripping your own heart into pieces.

User Rating: 9.5 | Mass Effect 3 PS3
Here's the thing: I'm a sucker for games with an emotional attachment. Obviously, combat and such are important, but I'm never going to truly love a game unless I really end up feeling something for the characters and the universe the game embeds me in. It's not something I've found very often, which is unfortunate, really; or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places?

I finally finished the single-player campaign on ME3 last week, which in itself was the perfect balance of challenging combat and interesting plot (I chose the Role-Playing option, obviously). It took forever but I never felt like it was just dragging on- there was always something to do, someone to talk to, somewhere new to explore. I also felt like the combat itself was a great step up from ME2, and the controls seemed a lot slicker. Overall, aside from a couple of glitches and the occasional character not popping up in a cutscene (way to ruin the final romance scene, BioWare), it felt to me like this game was really well done.

But finishing it? Watching how my own actions/apparent stupidity affected the characters I'd grown to love? It broke me. I don't particularly care what the rest of the world thinks of the (admittedly controversial) ending; personally, I was a complete emotional wreck.

Which, in my books, makes Mass Effect 3 a winner. Hurrah.