Bioware's best game without a doubt. It takes the best part of any Bioware game, the characters, and puts them front and center. The result is an open ended, yet highly focused experience that expands the universe in new and interesting directions. This focus on characters does hurt the main story however, which is borderline non-existent at the best of times, not that you'll really mind as you'll be too busy blasting through recruitment and loyalty missions. In addition, combat has been completely retooled to be faster, deadlier and all together more satisfying. Side content outside of Loyalty Missions still suffers, but the side missions now are so short that it isn't really a problem.