I bought the first one on release back in 2007 or something but I droped it quite quickly. gaggle64 then got on my case about finally finishing the first game so i could transfer the file to the seccond. Finished the first game about a week or so ago, picked up mass effect 2 for £15 and I must say this is a crap load better than the first, plus all the stuff i did in the first game does loads for the story.
Saved the rachnai queen on Noveria in the first game and on Illium in the second game this asari comes up to me saying something about crashing on an uncharted planet and being helped by the rachnai queen or something. Awesome stuff, seems like i'm going to be spending alot of time with this game.