I'm feeling very skeptical about this game now, looking at these 5-6 point reviews, it just sort of disappoints me. I'm going to check back on these forums for these next couple of days to see what you guys think of it, because I'd imagine people like you have expectations similar to mine rather than the gamespot reviewers. It was well perceived by other reviewers, and this seems kind of like a love-hate sort of game.
I think this game would've scored higher on gaming sites if obsidian was a better-known developer, like for example me 1, and Dao.
ME 1 had good graphics, but horrible texture poppings, and some OK gameplay, but a good story.
It mainly scored high because it had a Bioware sticker slapped onto it.
Then we have DAO for the consoles, a terrible attempt at a 360 port in my honest opinion, for example, the hotkeys were unresponsive, and I would also come across an unresponsive analog stick, Example: I would move the character in one direction and he'd move in the exact opposite, or I would just move the joystick in one direction and the character would refuse to move until a couple minutes later. Not to mention that it had worse graphics than AP, and to me it seemed a lot more unpolished.
And do you know what the score on IGN was?
8.7, because it was made by "RPG king" Bioware.