I thirty-second mass effect, except for one thing about it, the spoiler below isn't really much of a spoiler, but I know some people hate any kind of spoiler so I put the warning.

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Except for the whole "OMG shepard is dead" "Oh wait, there he is" that just seeemed like such a cheap trick. Other than that it was the best ending I have ever experienced in a video game.

nice with the car

Is your wife at all into video games? If she is, mass effect is a game that people of both sexes can enjoy, more than a lot of other games out there. You can play as a female lead without ridicoulously large breasts xD

Other than that, orange box and COD4

Most MMOs have pretty similar interfaces, here's a shot from everquest II

http://www.game-rate.com/Screenshots/images/eq2.jpg

not much different from wow or this new DBZ. The reason wow was and is so popular is because it took what all the other MMOs did and did it better, it's derivative in a good way.