overall solid. carried heavily by incredible worldbuilding, character relations, and really well written, well performed, engaging dialogue. Captain Shepard has a really commanding screen presence about him that really drives the scenes, and the rest of the Normandy crew are instantly lovable and memorable as well. the gunplay is super basic and floaty, but it gets the job done. the absolute worst part about ME1 is those damn side missions, holy fuck. the Mako and the worlds you navigate with it ruin the side missions completely for me, they are so miserable to traverse through and are so obviously designed to pad for time that its obnoxious.

scratch that, worst part about ME1 is Shepard's running animation.