Mass Effect (Spoilers)

Commander Shepard. The hero of the galaxy.
Mass Effect is a Sci-fi RPG videogame made by Bioware in the year of 2007. This game was going to be a new and interesting twist on the whole franchise. Now mind you I may seem very biased in my opinions of the game but I will state the drawbacks.
Now before we begin this will include spoilers. So please be aware of that. If you have never played the game then I'm shocked but let's get into it.
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Mass Effect begins with us being able to design our own Shepard. You can choose a male or female shepard and make their face as close to yours as you'd like. Or you can make them very ugly. You then can choose from different classes, my favorite is the Engineer class. You then are given a screen of words to read about the history of earth and the discovery of the mass effect relays.
From there it shifts to Shepard staring out a window and you hear three voices, Anderson, Udina, and Hackett. You learn that you are being considered for a special assignment. You are greeted with an assignment to a human colony and the first alien race you meet is a turian. 
Upon arriving you recieve a transmition that confuses the whole crew. Then you go on a mission and find out a dark dark secret, dealing with a turian who is a specter. The dark secret is the geth have joined forces with a race called Reapers. You then have to prove to the council on the citadel that the turian named Saren is guilty. After doing so you can then end up with three new crew members or only one new crew member. So the one you get no matter what is Tali Zorah she is a Qurian, she has the needed imformation to show Sarens guilt.
The other two members you can either get or skip is Garrus Vakarian who is a turian and Wrex Urdnot who is a krogan. Now I always recruit them but you don't have to. You can skip on having them on your team which is interesting.So once you get them on your crew you are given three different missions. It doesn't matter entirely which mission you take on first but I always start by getting Liara.
Liara T'soni is an asari who is a scientist studying about the ancient race Protheans.
After you have everyone it is interesting, each character is given their own personality. Tali is a spunky excited character, Garrus is a more serious but willing to learn character, Wrex is a more wise and rough character, Liara is a more nervous and shy character. Then you have the two human crew members Kaiden and Ashley, now I'm not a huge fan of either of them. Ashley is a big racisit and she goes out of her way to in sure her families name doesn't get anymore smeared. Kaiden is a coward who is kind but just doesn't know how to be honest.
Anyways, after you complete the second mission the council will contact you about new information they have. Now you don't have to finish anymore missions after this. You can head straight for that final mission but I found it's good to finish all three. So once you finish them all you head off to a planet where a STG group for the Salarians is stationed. On this planet they are cloning krogans to serve the Reapers.
If you took Wrex with you then you are presented with a difficult task of convincing him to destroy the base. If you didn't finish all the missions then you won't be able to convince him and be left with having to kill him. But if you did them all you'll be able to convince him to help. After that you go and destory the base. But before the bomb can go off you are given another tough choice. Kaiden or Ashley, you are made to have to decide who will be left behind in the blast.
After that you then return to the citadel where they ground the Normandy and you're taken off the mission. You know about the plan Saren has and you know you have to leave in order to stop him. Anderson offers help and you have two choices. Now the first choice I never choose is Anderson gunning down a bunch of people. But the second choice deals with him knocking out Udina and overwriting his command.
I always go with the second you then are able to stop Saren. You rush to the planet he is on and learn even more about the Protheans. Once you're able to find him he has arrived at the citadel you then have to follow after him.once on the citadel you learn of the war and see the Reaper attacking. You then go and save the day. Yup that's it.
But what did I think of it.
Mass Effect is a beautifully well written game. The story is fantastic and keeps you in it's grasp the whole time. But the game play can feel a bit unfair. Some enemies you don't see until the are on top of you. The romances are also kind of stiff and you can only romance the two human crew members or the only alien Liara, an asari who is just literally another female.
When I first played the game I kind of got a crush on Garrus. He was a fascinating and well written. Plus the choice in voice actors was fantastic. But of course Garrus was not a romance option.
So how did I play the game?
I played the paragon path. I chose for my Shepards back story that she had no parents and grew up on earth, but that she was a war hero. Did I end up romancing anyone?
Yes, surprisingly I was romancing Kaiden and had no clue. Since I see no races I left Ashley behind and then before I knew it Kaiden approached my Shepard.
So final opinion. If you ever wanted a great game then you need to buy this game. The story is great in depth and has an amazing end. The characters are all unique and fun and they really fulfill this idea of aliens. Buy this game for sure don't rent this game. It is one that will stay a classic.

(Thanks for reading this post. I will be doing a review on an App game called Star Crossed Myth. This is one of my favorites.:))