XBOX SHOWCASE | X Gonna Give it To Ya

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I believe that there are hidden artifacts that give you such powers but yes it mostly looks like Mass Effect although much grander in scale and with building/crafting elements. It does look like missions are pretty much limited to raiding bandit camps in space though. All the gameplay they showed outside of building and crafting was basically shooting. 

The biggest question for me is if the game is interesting enough to be such a time sink. 'Just go out and explore' is fun in theory but without some sort of hook or objective it gets boring quickly. Especially if your only option is to shoot things.