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Mass Effect uses an on-screen menu system, much like the one in the Brothers in Arms series, where you can select a squadmate and move an icon across the level to wherever you want him to go. To counter this, you have the ability to give orders to your squadmates and even direct them to specific locations on the map. Other enemies would lay down suppressing fire to make things even more difficult. We saw many examples of the enemies taking cover and popping out to take a quick shot at us before heading back behind cover. The enemy AI, as well as the AI of your own squad, appeared to be quite smart.

Unlike the KotoR series, the combat here is real-time, and once you're locked on, it is quite fast-paced and intense. When you encounter enemies, you use a target lock-on feature to engage them in combat, which utilizes a third-person, over-the-shoulder view. The demo wouldn't have been complete without a look at the squad-based combat, and we saw a level in which you'll be clearing out the baddies in an abandoned city that has became overgrown with vegetation.

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While the standard number of completely different and unique planets to explore is already stunning, even more will be available for download through Xbox Live.

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You even have access to a surface rover that you can use to drive around the new world, and as you progress through the game, you can upgrade this vehicle with more features. You can go to any of the available planets, moons or asteroids, land on their surface and start exploring. We couldn't get any specific numbers, but from what we saw, it appears that Mass Effect will literally be quite massive (pun intended). Getting back to the 'size and scope' theme of Mass Effect, the galaxy map displays tons of smaller solar systems with stars, planets and moons that can all be explored. This really helps create a much more realistic and compelling gaming experience, which is also boosted by the main character and his squad actually speaking with their own voices instead of replying in text (again, like KotoR).

You don't actually know what your character will say before he says it all you know is what sort of emotions he will be using when speaking. Once you select one of these, your character will then reply with dialog based on the emotion you selected. When speaking with an NPC, you now have the choice to select from a strong response, passive-aggressive, or other options, like talking your way through the matter. Unlike Knights of the Old Republic, where you selected your answer from a set of canned responses when talking to NPCs, you pick from a range of emotions. What governs this is Bioware's brand-new dialog system that uses emotions to express feelings.

Some will be really aggressive and charge into battle or be very candid when speaking to a non-enemy NPC, while others will be more passive and not react as strongly to things. Each of your squad members will have his or her own unique personality and interact with both enemies and friendly NPCs differently. Exactly who you pick to be in your squad will have a profound impact on the other NPCs in the game. You'll also have the ability to recruit your own squad members as you make your way throughout the game. While he was the main character in the demo we saw, you can actually build your own via the game's in-depth create-a-character system. As the demo progressed, Jay Watamaniuk of Bioware showed off the squad of playable characters, headed by Commander Shepard.

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