My thoughts so far: I have only put 20 hours into the single player and probably 10hrs into the Multiplayer so I can't comment on side quests and endings and possibly other bugs because I simply have not done it all yet to find out. However, I am noticing the same complaints from the fans. It is disheartening to hear that ME3 may not completely live up to expectations. The game is not perfect but so far I would have a hard time classifying this as simply mediocre. The past two games were great even with a few shortcomings. This game brings the same great combat, character dialog and universe from the previous games. Most if not all of these different characters are fully voiced by different actors. I don’t get those Skyrim moments where I feel like the same guy voiced the whole village. Don't get me wrong I loved Skyrim but how many other games fully voice nearly as many characters as these games and all with talented voice actors except maybe Jessica Chobot lol. Improvements like allowing any class to carry any weapon load out are welcome. I like the new weight attribute since it makes me think harder about what to bring to battle trading off with how often I want to be able to use my powers. There is a much better and bigger library of weaponry and mods that remind me of ME1. Was not expecting much but multi-player is actually fun! Same fun combat and you get to be different races with slightly different abilities within each class. You will get all the galactic readiness you need with just a few nights of messing around in it. Heck me and my daughter, just playing in a private match just the two of us, got up to nearly 90% in a few nights. It is not like you have to play it for hours on end. However, I do agree that it is bull that they tied the multi-player into single player for a game that has always been single player. Not everyone has live or wants to pay for live so I get it. My biggest problem with this whole thing is all this pre-order bonus crap and online pass bull. Any other game and I may not even bother getting it. That and the greedy way they made the Specter packs so expensive and allow people to buy them with MS points. It’s just a big cash grab. EA did this with SSX also. They are driving people to play multi by tying it to single player a little then trying to get you to buy the packs that have completely random stuff inside? That is the big let down. My opinion of single player could change when I reach the end but that is going to be a bit. It's only been out for a week. Judging from what I am hearing I may be disappointed by the end of it all but remaining optimistic for now.