I played the enormous new space opera, 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' - here's what it's like

"Mass Effect: Andromeda" takes the third-person shooter, space-epic video game series "Mass Effect" to an entirely new galaxy: Andromeda.

Humans and other sentient species from the Milky Way galaxy have sent ships - "arks" - with tens of thousands of beings in an attempt to ensure human life continues. The arks are led by a single individual tasked with finding new, habitable worlds. In "Andromeda," you are that person - the "Pathfinder" - and it's up to you to find a new home for humanity.

I've been playing "Mass Effect: Andromeda" for a few days now, and it's been an emotional roller coaster. Here's what it's like.