Well I just finished my first play through of Mass Effect 3 and I have to say over all I think it's a superior game to ME2, I didn't encounter any real bugs beyond one that was more annoying than game breaking and really did enjoy playing it. Now I know a lot of people are complaining about the endings of the game and I will say I am a bit on the fence with them while I thought they were mostly good they weren't what I would of liked but hey can't have every thing your way now can you. But I will say that the Red ending was a bit of a let down and I can't really say why with out giving some spoilers so I won't say any thing here for a couple of days at least.

I will say that the environments and how they changed your squad mates alone make this a better game, no longer are the environments clean and sterile they look well more real lived in to me they just felt much more natural so kuddos to the level artists. As for your squad mates they now.... move around the ship no longer do you find them in the same spot all the time doing the same thing over and over, they wander around the ship talking with each other and honestly again it made it them seem so much more like real people. And not until I started my second game did I realize some thing important there costumes have an actual effect on them. I clicked on info when I was picking a squad mate and I noticed that there current outfit gave them a bonus so I switched to another and yes a different bonus showed up. And my only thought was wow this made so much sense I wish they had thought of it sooner.

As for the combat yes it's been ramped up as they said normal is the new veteran but I loved the added challenge and how they improved the powers all thou I still don't see much use in the cryo powers out side of the multiplayer aspect which is fun in it's own right. So I will heartily suggest that people give this game a try but I will warn you that it is darkers and several characters do die in the game and this is one of the few games that really got me emotionally.... uuhhhh not sure what to say so I'll say it got my emotions stirring.