Mass Effect 3 for Nintendo Wii U - Action RPG Sci-Fi Video Game | Epic Space Adventure for Single Player Gaming Experience

First of all, I'm not a big time gamer at all. I've usually found games like this to be tedious, glitchy and generally more work to enjoy than they should be. Until recently my "gaming" was centered around Super Mario Bros Wii and a little Rock Band every few months. With the release of the Wii U, though, all that's changed... Assassin's Creed 3... Mass Effect 3... so THIS is what everyone's been talking about!This game is awesome. There's quite a bit of cinema cut scenes if you play the RPG path, but the battles and missions are really fun and if you relax and let it be what it is you actually do start to follow the story and care about the characters. And the fact that the graphics are simply amazing, at least to my untrained eye, helps a LOT. It's one of the first games I've played where the quality of the cut scenes and the quality of the game are literally identical. Usually it seems like the cut scenes are very engrossing and graphically rich, then the game itself is sorta... meh.. whatever.But with ME3 the cut scenes often end with you preparing to enter the battle and literally the cut scene ends and you start fighting and there's NO change in graphics quality, everything is virtually seamless and amazing. If you have a big HD TV it's really a fantastic game.Game play is hard but not frustrating, enemies are relentless without being predictable and the weapons are mostly satisfying. My only real complaint is that as a non-gamer dork I constantly have the feeling that I'm missing something... there's something I'm supposed to be doing, some battle I'm supposed to be engaged in, some critical piece of equipment I don't know about... there's just so much STUFF that I feel like I must be missing something important and not even realize it. And then I remembered that I have an iPad and can use IGN's fantastic walkthrough as I play, which helps SO much when it comes to finding items, completing side missions and generally understanding what's going on. In fact about 1/3'rd of the way into the game I restarted so I could do all the side missions and actually understand what's going on, and I'm really glad I did. The simple IGN walkthroughs for each "level" really helped me with so many things, and now I feel like I have a grasp of what this game is about.No walkthrough changes the irritation of navigating the stupid ship, the Normandy, though. Everything is spread out on different decks and again... should I be talking to every person I see? Should I be looking at my emails more? Should I spend more time kitting out my armor? Am I supposed to be doing something in the sick bay? There's not really many clues about that stuff, so if you don't use a good walkthrough simply finding things can be frustrating, let alone figuring out what you should or shouldn't spend time doing.But ultimately it's an awesome game, much better than I expected. It took me a few hours of play to really get into the character and story but now I dig it. Worth the money!