Originally Posted by zakhal 
I kind of like mass effect but I cant denay that for most part the game is pretty much a railroaded shooter. I mean thats what you do "most" in the game. If you remove the shooting there wouldnt be much of a game left in it.
That's true of almost all (maybe all) RPGs. Take out the endless combat in Gothic 2 and the game would be a couples hours long at most. Maybe less. Take out all the combat in BG2 and it too would be way short. And etc.