Often, securing the help of one race means utterly screwing over another, setting up the kind of Moral Dilemmas With Far-Reaching Consequences (tm) BioWare games are known for (I'm staying necessarily vague in discussing the story here to avoid giving away too much). Humans-first group Cerberus plays the spoiler role this time around, working against Shepard and the Alliance in an attempt to control the Reapers rather than destroy them. During a dramatic attack on Earth-serving as the game's seamless tutorial-Commander Shepard is called back into active military service as the only person with the credentials and reputation to unite the galaxy's various bickering races into some sort of coherent front (against an existential threat they haven't sufficiently prepared for, naturally). The game starts off with a bang, as the life-eradicating Reapers finally make the assault on galactic civilization threatened throughout the series. $59.99 (standard edition) $79.99 (Collector's Edition)
