I'll have that when it comes out for the PC, like my KOTOR's thank you.

RPG's are becoming a natural console fit. Lying in bed with my wireless controller and a nice 32" HDTV set sure beats the CRAP out of hunching over in my PC chair staring at a 19" monitor.

This is the 3rd reason why i got a 360.

argh. it's a good thing I can afford to buy these games now. it already looks like my 360 purchases from the coming year will surpass my original Xbox purchases over the course of 3 years...

I've had it Pre-ordered since early January. this is probably my next 360 game. Enjoyed the Crackdown demo but im still not sold.

I wonder how the diverging endings will affect the rest of the series. If I make a "bad" character, will that ending continue on through the sequels?

I want this so bad, and I hope they make the Q1 date. And screw logic and mixing of different gaming universes, I want HK-47 in Mass Effect!

I'm glad that I'm picking up a 360 soon.This game and BioShock are both looking like must have games.

yes it is

This game gives me 0 interest in purchasing a 360.

But seriously...can someone tell me how this is a RPG?

Also about the game lenght and "solar systems"...unless they tell how how much you can explore in each "solar system" and how much level is on each planet, I think it is a bit hyped up. I mean there are plenty of adventure games that reach over 40 hours and they don't use "DVD9".
I mean how long does it take to load or "travel" from one solar system to the next?

Yes that last one seems to be nit-picking but this site seems to be recently swaying to one side instead of being subjective.

Haha, I've been saying all along that this is most assuredly the game that will get me to buy a 360. I mean, yeah, Bioshock and Assassin's Creed and all, but without Mass Effect, even those other two likely wouldn't have been enough to convince me to finally get one. I really really hope this game is as good as the hype (of which there seems to have been surprisingly little, until now at least) and doesn't horribly stink up the 360. It's BioWare, though, and they have a great track record so far, for the most part, so I'm expecting good things.

@Orcist

The way they handled that in KotOR 2 was that you played an entirely new character who'd been mostly out of the loop during KotOR 1, and in a conversation early on with Atton, you discuss what the player character in the previous game did. By your dialogue choices, you decide whether the character was good or evil, male or female, etc. Atton would say something like, "*spoiler did such and such. Then he did this and that." And you'd have the choice to reply with something like "'He'? I though *spoiler* was a woman!" It did have an effect on the game overall, but it was pretty subtle and only came into play when people talked about the events of the previous game, which wasn't very often. It didn't seem like a very impressive way to do it, but I guess they couldn't count on every one having saves from the previous game for KotOR 2 to access or whatever, so I guess that's why they did it the way they did it.

@BlindsideDork

Unless I've been horribly mistaken all this time, this game seems rather similar to BioWare's previous games, like KotOR, Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, etc. All of which were RPGs. And all of which, with the possible exception of Neverwinter Nights, were awesome. The combat and such may be different (Jade Empire's was different as well), but the dialogue and character interactions seem to be an evolved version of that which was in all those other games. If you didn't like KotOR or Jade Empire, you probably won't like this game either.

Also, as to this game using "DVD9" or whatever, it means jack shit to me.

(Also, 70 hours for Oblivion? Heh, try doubling that. And I still didn't finish it.)

Usually microsoft only pushes good games too, which can give us a hint on its goodness.

Yeah... the Oblivion reference confused me as well. Oblivion is far, far longer and more of a sandbox game then this particular piece of software seems to be based on the information currently out there. A new, shinier KOTOR? Maybe. Oblivion? Definately a different game.