Mass Effect

On top of my continuing obsession with Guitar Hero 3, I've started playing Mass Effect. My take on the game is that it's a modern remake of Starflight. I was a big fan of Starflight, so this game is right up my alley. Mass Effect has a huge story line with many races and plots going on. The dialog tree is also huge. I have found some annoying problems that creep up from time to time. In one incident after a cutscene on the first planet mission I returned to the ships infirmary. When I awoke and started to talk to the doctor my XBox started to get quiet and I couldn't hear anyone talking in the game. Then I got an error that the disk was damaged. I examined the disc and it was fine. So I had to start over from the cutscene. I think there area few glitches like this in the game.
Another thing that annoyed me was that on one planet I could explore everywhere. On another I was stuck in a valley that I couldn't go up the walls in my vehicle. There was no difference in the height, they just wanted to control my movements. I do find that the exploration on the ground is kinda boring, but the spacefilght and the RPG aspects are very cool.