I never finished the third one. I kinda want to revisit and finish the trilogy sometime. I remember enjoying the RPG elements but looking back on it, it really glorifies the military, you're basically the space CIA if I remember right. You also team up with Garrus, who's a vigilante cop and the Space Fascist in the third one, whose genocidal racism is treated like "haha he's like your racist grampa lol".
I don't really play g*mes often but I did love mass effect. I didn't think too much about political undertones because I would never expect good politics from a space based rpg lol.
lol true