Piecing together a rag-tag team of bad-ass aliens and traversing the universe in search of evil to kick in the teeth is what made me fall in love with the Mass Effect series.  Mass Effect 3 is missing that magic.  Maybe I played the game wrong, but I only had three team members throughout the entire game, and I disliked all of them. Any time a former teammate made a cameo appearance, I would get my hopes up that everything would return to normal.  We’d reminisce about old times, but none of them ever rejoined my crew.  That left me with only a handful of generic characters with whom I shared no connection.  Despite general improvements to the series, including updated visuals and combat, I frequently found myself bored with the game.  The locations were bland, the story uninteresting, and my decisions didn’t seem to have any significant effects.  I hesitate to say this is a bad game, because there were portions that I enjoyed. I just feel my time would have been better spent playing Mass Effect 2 again.