Actually, I’d rather have Tricia Helfer play Shepard. But with red hair, obviously.

(that could work for Oblivion too)

Chiming in with yet another ‘hey, that’s *my* Shepard!’. Clearly, very few people could stand that dire, personality free meathead that was the male version.

Male Shepard was, basically, The Rock in disguise. I couldn’t get over the fact that I would have to be facing The Rock’s behind for 30+ hours. So yeah, pointy-faced female all the way, that model was really well-designed.

As long as Jennifer Hale provides the dubbing for all her lines…it might work.

Anyway in regards to a Mass Effect film, it could work. In fact most games could easily be made into good or great films the reason they aren’t is not the reasons people usually trumpet around ie games are too different blah blah blah. Any decent filmmaker, note the word decent since not one game to film adaptation has had anyone remotely talented directing or writing it, knows how to adapt from one medium to film. I mean they’ve been doing it with books and comics for years now with some fantastic results. Sure it doesn’t always work but you usually that’s because the director or more likely scriptwriter where not up to the task and not because the material being too hard to adapt. ‘LA Confidential’ is an extremely dense book and many thought was impossible to film but Curtis Hanson and co managed to condense it into a brilliant film. Most games would be much much easier than that to adapt, more like comic books infact. You take the characters, the universe, maybe some major plot points and let the director put their spin on it. As soon as you get your Nolan’s and del Toro’s making game to film adaptations you’re going to get some good stuff.

It’s about time though for the next generation to get their Sigourney Weaver-esque space marine ass-kicker that the gen x kids had. My gen had Princess Lea who sort of fell short in the butt kicking dept but made up in the looks.