Sheeeeeit, this game is fuck awesome. Best thing Bioware has done since BG2, easy. AMAZING presentation.
It really is. This game feels like the future of western rpgs to me. Amazingly enough, even though it's an action rpg, it still plays like a turn based rpg somehow.
Tips:
1. Biotic users are a must. Either you, or someone else, you NEED a biotic user in your party; they make a world of difference because they help stop enemies shooting at you and give you room to breath. Throw/Lift/Singularity are extremely important!
2. Master Unity and your other healing stats. You will get better skills, and while it may make the game slightly easier, you will get less annoyed. Healing time takes a while in this game, and items that increase healing recharges are sparse early on. Mastering these skills early on can save you time.
3. Use the environment to your advantage: set a trap by forcing enemies to chase you after planting a mine, or leading them into a narrow hallway where you can use your Biotic to cast Lift, making them all hover in the air so you can pick them off.
if you don't use everything in your disposal in Mass Effect you will be owned, especially if you aren't a Soldier class. At the beginning of the game you forget you even have biotics because you start to think of it as a shooter, but nope. It's still an rpg; you need to buff your attacks, debuff enemies, use magic to survive.
