In the meantime, let's talk about some of the games I've played on PC over the years. PC is actually my preferred format for RPGs, MMO's, and the city builder games like Sim City.
In honor of the coming Mass Effect Andromeda, I'm going to go back several years to a BioWare classic, Mass Effect. Mass Effect, rumor has, started life as Knight of the Old Republic III. When that fell through they continued to develop the game as their own IP and the world of Commander Shepard and the Reapers was born. Mass Effect was released in 2007 and tells the story of Commander Shepard and his crew and their fight against a sentient space dreadnought known as Sovereign and its indoctrinated agents led by Saren, a rogue SPECTRE (think Interplanetary James Bond).
The story of Mass Effect was innovative. Imagine a game where you actually can change the course of the story not only from your own perspective (are you valiant, neutral, or a complete prick) but also how your crew functions and how the story will go in future games! On a whole it isn't a "happy" story and if you don't know that within the first ten minutes of the story then you didn't pay attention in High School English class. Do yourself a favor, before you play any of the Mass Effect games, make sure you're familiar with Greek Hero/Tragedy and put aside your familiarity with Hollywood Happy Endings. If you don't, you will not like these games.
Much like other FPS/RPGs, Mass Effect allows you to customize everything about your character. Appearance, Gender, (Sexual Preference (no kidding)), weapons, armor, weapon special abilities, the works. At times it even feels too customizable.
The music and sound are on a motion picture sale, which we are more than used to today but was still a novelty back then. The graphics hold up to any game today. A cast of familiar and superb voice actors rounded out the sensory experience and through them created a vibrant, living sci-fi franchise/universe.
In addition to the FPS standard of play there was an excellent exploration system as you moved from planet to planet and star system to star system. On planets where it was (more or less) safe and on many story or side quest planets, you could explore it via a rover that was unfortunately left out of later installments.
Summing Up Mas Effect:
Story: 5/5: I'm a sucker for a story that calls into life Joseph Campbell's archetypes and archetype stories and Mass Effect does that REALLY well. The ability to effect the game and future games by your actions is still an innovation ten years later.
Control: 3/5: Average FPS on a computer. Mouse and keyboard driven unless you hook up a controller. It works well but isn't anything "wow"
Sound/Music: 5/5: Very easily could be theater quality feature length film. Amazing and emotional. Excellent voice acting draws you into the story completely.
Graphics: 5/5: Again, easily feature length animated quality. Holds up to today's games easily.
Playability: 4/5: You WILL find yourself playing the game multiple times to see what different decisions will get you. You WILL be sorry when the game is over because it is a joy to play. You WILL want to see how Shepard's story winds up. Though I stress again, ditch any feelings for Happy Endings. The series ends dark no matter how you look at it, it just depends on you as to how dark.