Mass Effect is BioWares latest game and is great if you like dialog and good story telling, but RPG fans feel different.

User Rating: 8 | Mass Effect X360
I'll just give you the facts: Mass Effect has great characters, a great story, and the universe is very well thought out. So if you're a fan of KoToR you probably will enjoy Mass Effect, just because it's by BioWare and its revolutionary dialog system.
Although the dialog is just about the only revolutionary about the game. The combat boils down to just a barely passable shooter, and you have these powers you obtain by leveling up and putting points into the stat bars. You obtain guns and armor that have different stats and stuff too, but you'll probably end up converting massive amounts of garbage into omnigel because you'll find tons of this extra loot is worthless. The game doesn't often call for you to be a tactical mastermind so you'll end up just shooting stuff and throwing a power here and there. It's still fun to say the least.
The graphics are really nice and the game plays very nicely. You're not going to frustrated or want to turn it off because the main quest planets are fairly interesting. The ending is great, one of the coolest I've seen and goes along with an excellent soundtrack. You owe it to yourself to play Mass Effect at least two times, because there is a lot to miss out on the first time.
You'll probably end up not doing this "exploration" stuff a lot, because it's simply boring. You land on a planet, drive around, shoot things, all the planets are exactly the same with different environments. It's a dull, shallow experience and don't let it ruin the excellent story.