@dark-gio: It picks up after the Citadel. That particular section is one of the least exciting in the game, but it opens up several new options for you after slogging through it. Going through the Virmire and Feros missions were perhaps the most entertaining moments I've ever had with an RPG.

@oosiegewolfoo: It was T for Teen. Much less effective. Far too cute and colorful. That, and you have the altruistic purpose of saving animal babies. Naughty Bear's just a dick.

I don't see this so much as a legitimate effort of making a solid teddy bear-based violent video game as much as it is a calculated effort to prevent directors like Michael Bay from completely fucking the Teddy Ruxpin franchise, as is the case with fellow popular 1980's franchises GI Joe and Transformers.

@Tuor_of_Gondolin: What exactly does deter a crazy whackjob anyway? If they're so certifiably fucked in the head, I don't imagine much of anything's going to prevent them from pursuing something like the aforementioned massacre.

@zåɳzißarlegeпȡ: I kind of ranted. I understand what you mean, and I certainly hope that's what Bungie shoots for. They've done really well without making the environment as absolutely detailed as possible, but they haven't exactly ignored it either, like the Sentinel repair drones in the Sacred Icon mission, or the…

@whitetar: You can receive messages from other characters via your personal terminal on the new Normandy. You can't send messages back, but sometimes you pick up a mission from what you've received.

@TheReij: Welcome to the community. =P

@whitetar: I've met Liara, Kaidan, Garrus, Tali, Dr. Chakwas, Udina, Captain Anderson, the Citadel Council, and Shiala from the Zhu's Hope colony on Feros. I'm on my way to meet Wrex, and have already had e-mail correspondence with a number of old contacts.

@Bardock: I believe the Xbox Live team is currently putting a patch through its certification paces to fix the care package sprint glitch. I don't expect matchmaking to change much throughout the game's lifetime, especially its annoying tendency to put you back into rooms you just left, like you didn't happen to do so…

@whitetar: Playing as a male character, none of my potential love interests are alien beyond (Romance Spoiler!) Tali. I think Miranda's coming on to me, though, which is pretty cool.

@zåɳzißarlegeпȡ: The main thing about the fields in which players find themselves is that they're all abandoned. Civilians, and in some cases Marines, have disappeared, leaving you alone against a contingent of Covenant or Flood. By making the player a lone soldier working his or her way through the mission, it…

@maxtothez: I think it's in part to mimic the Covenant.

I like almost everything I see here. Except the walls; they don't really do it for me.

@PeteyCoco: And then he finds out that his beloved Maria has mutated with the T-Virus, beaten the shit out of Spider-Man on more than one occasion, and became an Akrid.

@hk458: "Holy shit, Dom! We've got ferns!"

@Resident Diesel: Continuity was all typed out, printed, shredded and mixed into a tasty smoothie, then pissed into the wind off a very tall mountain, wasn't it?

@hfbrooklyn:

@Natey: You joke now, but when you get called in to boost power output by 25% mid-coitus, you feel like a god.

@KnightsofRound: This is only a fraction of the interaction you can have with the character, and it offers little to no information about what led to these encounters.

@adzay: If you were in it just for tits, your game came up quite awhile ago. BMX XXX should be pretty cheap at this point.