Use the biotics, Luke

[sigma7]

So I've been playing Knights of the Old Republic III Mass Effect and loving it. The voice talents are pretty distinct: the dude who voiced Carth Onasi returns, and there's a very distinct group of guest stars: Keith David, Marina Sirtis and Seth Green, among others. The action is interesting if occasionally vexing, the digital faces are on the happy side of the uncanny valley, the dialogue scenes are extremely cinematic, the aliens run from adequate to very cool, and the video scene of the Normandy arriving at the Citadel is just fantastic. It could use a bit more polish in the interface and needs a more consistent fast-travel system, but if you were a fan of KOTOR in any of its incarnations (even the bloody mess that KOTOR2 became), you really should check it out. Search/replace "Jedi" with "Spectre," "Force" with "biotics," "Skywalker" with "Shepard" and you're pretty much set.

Interestingly, my old computer wouldn't even run Mass Effect; Diana runs it with max settings with nary a stutter. (And Oblivion looks gorgeous.) I'm gonna have to try Crysis on it.