Thank you for such detailed review of Mass Effect, it is interesting to hear the users opinion, especially when you already played the games for sometime so you know very well and it is really a simple user can assess better what will be liked by other majority of game fans and it is helpful for the programmer to know where and how they should improve it.

For just a moment of glance at the videos, everything looks really well done, space and spaceships, the character look amazing but as you mentioned yourself much depends on facial animation and dialogue that brings the characters to life and close to reality.