Mass Effect - Review @ Strategy Informer

Strategy Informer has a review up of Bioware's latest release for the XBox 360, Mass Effect, with an overall positive assessment and a score of 9/10:

In the end Mass Effect does carry some imperfections like bugs, glitches, texturing popping, some sound volume quirks and often laborious exploration in the MAKO but even after all that BioWare still has one mega-fantastic (yes, it’s a word) game here. The depth of the story, the quality of the cinematic styled dialogue and events, the brilliant scores of music that litter throughout – all build up an unforgettable immersion and by the end I was near grief-stricken that this tale had come to an end… Mass Effect is a landmark game for its charismatic storytelling power, BioWare show they are still easily at the frontlines when it comes to forging new, exciting and epic-level adventures.

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Their final rating is 9.0. It says so in the right-hand of the page.

Thanks BN—don't know how I missed that—the number's huge.

Fixed.

I always thought Strategy Informer just dealt with strategy games.

Me, too. Back in the day, they were pretty focused on strategy only—they still seem to do a lot in terms of mods and downloads, but they've got databases on rpgs, sims and other coverage now also.