Yeah, I've come to hate everything about the Mako. I hate climbing mountins with it. I hate driving it, especially sometimes when I try to drive backwards away from enemies and it does this turnaround that and I sit there for a minutes trying to turn around while I get shot by rockets. OH yeah, I loathe combat in the Mako. I hate it with a super passion. There are two ways combat can work with the Mako. The first way is to act in a way that the name implies, and circle and keep moving around your target, while shooting your guns and heavy artillery cannons, like a real shark. This is the way that works the best. Unfortunetely, and I assume I'm not the only one here, but me having to do that is like me going to a party and picking up women. Sure, I'll get in one or two lucky shots, but at the end of the night, I'm going to strike out, and be all alone. Except, in Mass Effect, at the end of the night after you've struck out and not hit anything, you're not all alone, you're surrounded by roocket troopers and Geth Armetures. So really, the analogy doesn't make any sense and you die.
The second way is to stay stationary while you aim and shoot. Unfortunetely what inevitabaly happens is that by the time you manage to fire off a round or two from your heavy artillery, you end up having sustained a ridiculous ammount of damage and are forced to retreat over the mountainside and heal, all the while the emasculating shame of running away from a few Geth while Ashley decides she could never be with a sissy like you and starts making out with Carth right in front of you, eats away at you, initially only inflicting one wound leaving you to flail around in your own blood and entrails until you are too weak to fight back, like a shark. Like a Mako shark. So you continue to shoot cover and heal over and over again, each time allowing the enemies sheilds to regenerate only prolonging the torture. Sometimes you'll get fed up and just ram into them, and that works sometimes. But sometimes like when you're surrounded by three armetures, four rocket turrets, and seven geth soldiers, it doesn't work.