Mass Effect, Think out of the box with this new xbox 360 game.  You, as Commander Shepard lead a force in the 23rd century across the galaxy trying to save humans from extinction by the hands of an evil technobot named Saren.  You decide what will happen as you make the choices you are faced with throughout the game.  Your choices in effect control the outcome of the game.  Every game will be different, every player will have a different outcome. You choose what you look like (Male or female, light skin, dark skin, red skin, blue skin, bald, harry, one good eye or two it's all up to you.  Every decision you make could very well destroy you or make you better.   Fighting against machines that have become intelligent and want to destroy what is left of humanity allows you to appreciate the irony of depending on technology like we do these days.  It is a necessity in most peoples lives these days.  You choose your armor and your weaponry, your situations are your decisions from past situations.  You control the outcome of the game, how cool is that?  Who you are at the end of game 1 is what your character will start out as in in game two and so on. You travel to different galaxy's and explore strange new worlds and seek out new civilizations..., (Oops got a little sidetracked there) on a ship named Normandy.  But its not all bad.  There are a lot of aliens you get to meet and cohabitate with, some good, some bad but all have a uniqueness about them.  It will definitely give you a different perspective of the alien species.