Could Mass Effect be the game that makes Escapist reviewer Yahtzee change his RPG-hating ways? Nope, apparently not. The conversation options that so wowed us here at Game|Life bore him to tears, and he didn’t much care for the combat, either. He does, however, find a way to compare boobs to bacon sandwiches, which is a pretty neat trick.
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