How does it look? Amazing. Where KOTOR looked like and Xbox game (and for some reason Jade Empire didn’t) Mass Effect looks like a true second generation Xbox 360 title. Character detail is… well, detailed. The graphics of each character model are superb. Environments rich and lush. This truly is an immersive world – and that’s just the visuals. We didn’t get to hear a lot of the game, but what we heard was great. It seems that the nerds have completely taken over the shop at BioWare in that attention to detail is no small matter. Even with just a basic setup you could hear the Doppler affect of shots fired. Maybe that was my imagination. I hope not.

I do know this, Mass Effect looks to be one of the games to beat for game of the year, yes, Oblivion may have met its match. We’ll find out later this year.