Anton P. Nym:
LOL @ noob. Seriously, though, I have no problems driving the Mako... I keep trying to figure out why others do.

It was a bit confusing having completely different controls to how vehicles control in most games. Plus, they tried to make the controls similar to how you control your character on foot, but that sort of control scheme only really works on foot, where you can change direction instantly.

I like the mythology and saga of the game. the gameplay is awesome. the storyline is OTAY! totally a great game. i dunno why yahtzee dont like it. hes a frickin hypocrite. i know im out of topic but hell he is.

I got it because I love a good story, and one that you shape yourself. and the trailers looked awesome

and what do you know, the game ruled.

I liked the idea of a RPG with a sci-fi setting, enjoyed the storyline, and the soundtrack is amazing.

A sci-fi RPG with guns? Yes please. I love both the idea and the game so far; I haven't finished it yet because of my broken GFx card.

I played it becuase I heard it was a good game and didn't play like an RPG.

Soothsayers:
I played it becuase I heard it was a good game and didn't play like an RPG.

What he said. Shining reviews can persuade me to buy a game, but my friends that played it loved it too so that's what sealed the deal.

MGG=REVIEWS:
Why did you play mass effect
is it because you are a star treck fan
or you like RPG'S
you enjoy there past KOTOR games
just why..

A little bit of all 3. Even though i played both Kotor games i've always been a fan of Star Trek and Mass Effect is just more my style.

Also, Bioware is the best western RPG developer EVER!!!! :)

It was either Mass effect or Assasin creed. I bought it. It was fun, besides the faults already mention and the ending that got out of a cheesy american war movie

I heard it was decent, and there was a 2 for £30 on at the shop, so I needed something to go with Eternal Sonata. ME was fun for a couple of days. I wasn't expecting it to be Kotor 3 without the lightsabers or dualistic subtext, but hey. Not a bad game, I'm just glad I didn't pay full price for it.

I played both Kotors, I am a rpg fan and a fps fan, and when I saw the first trailer from like 2005 I think it was 05 I couldn't wait, I got it the day it came out played it two days straight and beat it by thanksgiving (that was the best thanksgiving ever). I also currentlly lent it to a friend and now I realize how much I want it back. Finally if you can't tell by this paragraph I loved that game alot and went on to beat it 3 more times with the same character just to get the achievements. It is probably in the top 5 games I've ever played.

I got it because it was made by bioware .
im a huge fan of KOTOR.
i saw the trailers and saw some stuff on x play about it so i was sold.

RPG, KOTOR

I heard there was some awesome alien-lesbian sex, so I picked it up. I ended up playing through the game three times in a row-- which is unprecedented for me.

I was in the rental shop and it was A)Mass Effect or B)Juiced 2
It wasn't a hard choice.

I didn't

i just never got around to it and i never saw anything overly awesome to make me get off my lazy butt and get it.

Probably a good game but to me its KOTOR without lightsabers.

Because it is facking oresome!!!

The story, the setting, how everything is done, its all put together so well.
I'll play any game, any genre thats done as well as Mass Effect.

(Except turn based stuff. It just sucks, I'm sorry, it does)

it's an RPG that lets me shoot people, what's not to like?

Easy 1000 ach points :D

On a serious note it was simply because it looked good and being a rpg fan it looked like a must play. And it was better than I had anticipated (except for the Mako).

Because Western RPGs are really good and from all the videos I seen of this game it was very much like KotOR with Third Person Shooting and a fantastic story

1. I needed (wanted) a new game
2. It had received many good reviews
3. I'd heard of it
4. It looked pretty cool

I loved it, Bioware make some pretty good RPGs. Although I felt like a Dumb A*s when I got halfway through the game and relized on the uncharted worlds you could open a map on the pause screen and find points of intrest, before hands I kept geting lost. But that was my fault not the games.

HSIAMetalKing:
I heard there was some awesome alien-lesbian sex, so I picked it up. I ended up playing through the game three times in a row-- which is unprecedented for me.

Yes I did the same thing. I just couldn't put it down and everytime I played I discovered new content

well, i was promised an erotic adventure with alien/lesbian sex by Fox News...Oh how dissapointed i was

nilcypher:
Because I'm a Bioware fanboy.

Are you happy now?

Huh?

Are ya?

Extremely. Please don't ban me.

As for my reason, I thought it looked good, and I was glad to be correct.

I thought it looked good as well...I also thought I would be given some freedom of choice, different paths to take and ultimately a different story each time I played... They lied to me...

That and I forgot how much fun micromanaging a whole bunch of useless equipment on a not so intuitive menu system was in KOTOR II. [/sarcasm]

I've liked pretty much all preceding Bioware games so, I figured it'd be worth a shot.

Two games for forty pounds at Game Station. They just happend to be Rainbow Six and Mass Effect.

And it turned out I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I'm generally a fan of RPGs, and Mass Effect seemed kind of good from what I had heard. So basically they're the only reasons I got it.

Because I wanted something different that what I was currently playing. I enjoy western RPG's and really enjoyed both KoToR games. The character and weapon customizations were pretty cool. Didn't enjoy all the pointless side missions. And the Mako is lame. But it was a welcome change of pace.

it looked pretty good, but i didn't know much about it. i god reccommendations from my friend, so i gave it a shot

Since we have four guys we wil be playing team slayer for the moment

I bought it the other day, cant play it yet though. My 360 red ring'd, ffs.

I bought it because I assumed it would be like KOTOR.

Im going to be hated for this but I didn't like it and traded it back in two days, I suppose I was just expecting a turn based combat game rather than a FPS, or I was playing it wrong.

(My guess is on the latter)

It's a "dream game" thing.

I always wanted to play a character jetting around in a space ship within a -serious- Sci-Fi Universe (kinda like Battlestar Galactica, or, in a sense, the "Firefly/Serenity" Universe, less like Star Trek or Star Wars). Not that there are no other games before that allow that...Unreal 2 would be a pretty good example.

That +cool cinematic presentation + 3rd Person Action + a bit of freedom to choose your own Story +cool Music +nice Graphics = Sold.

Another one of those "i always wanted to do that" Games was Assasins Creed...for that, i think i like it a bit more than anyone else does.

I would love to play the game, since I've been a fan of BioWare's stuff for years; but unfortunately, myself and a LOT of other people who bought the PC version are unable to because of constant freeze-ups due to an immense amount of bugs present. I'm actually surprised this sort of thing isn't mentioned in the mainstream gaming press at all because, just check the Mass Effect Tech Forums, this problem is extremely widespread.